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Level 5 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Current Trends Influencing Sectoral Change

THM506 · Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality — Week 7 of 16

CourseTHM506
Week7 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Current Trends Influencing Sectoral Change

  1. Rise of bleisure and digital nomadism
  2. Regenerative and transformative travel
  3. Wellness tourism expansion
  4. Culinary tourism and local sourcing movements

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Explain current trends influencing change in the tourism and hospitality sector.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain current trends influencing change in the tourism and hospitality sector.

Study materials

Videos

  • Domestic Tourism - Is Staying Home The Newest Travel Trend? · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 10 min · for registered students
  • Travel Trends and Insights 2026 – Focus on Europe · YouTube · UN Tourism · 59 min · for registered students
  • New Thinking in Hospitality: How Consumer Trends Have Been Reshaped by 2020 · YouTube · eCornell · 62 min · for registered students
  • Travel Trends and Insights 2026: Focus on the Americas · YouTube · UN Tourism · 33 min · for registered students
  • UN Tourism & Amadeus -Travel Insights & Trends 2026 -Focus on Europe · YouTube · UN Tourism · 61 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2024, ch. 1: Tourism Trends and Policies · PDF · Oecd, report; pp. 16–46 · for registered students
  • Transition Pathway for Tourism (European Commission, 2022) · Reading · Eu, report · for registered students
  • Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 12: Future trends · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 287–297 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Social Issues Influencing Tourism and Hospitality
  • Week 2: Assessing Social Impacts on Industry Development
  • Week 3: Environmental Issues in Tourism and Hospitality
  • Week 4: Assessing Environmental Impacts on Sector Growth
  • Week 5: Technological Issues Facing Tourism and Hospitality
  • Week 6: Assessing Technological Impacts on Industry Operations
  • Week 7: Current Trends Influencing Sectoral Change
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Trend Analysis Techniques and Resources
  • Week 10: Organisational Responses to Contemporary Trends
  • Week 11: Analysing the Organisational Impact of Change Drivers
  • Week 12: Applying Contemporary Issues in Tourism and Hospitality in …
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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