| Five major trends influencing the tourist industry | | | | grant significant funds to the development of this |
| were named by the World Tourism Association | | | | business sector and lots of touristic companies |
| the day before. | | | | are now able to offer quite a rich variety of |
| In particular duration of journey shall shorten. Even | | | | touristic services, what leads to the saturation of |
| now more and more people on vacation prefer | | | | the requirements of the customers and therefore |
| short trips to traditional 2-week tours. New safety | | | | - new levels of demand and needs. The customer |
| requirements shall urge many tourists to totally | | | | is already waiting for some new and unusual |
| refuse flying to the place of vacation, and 10% of | | | | services because in the last times many countries |
| especially careful people shall not fly even during | | | | were trying to offer something unusual to win the |
| their business trips. More travelers shall use the | | | | tourist as a person who spends significant funds |
| Internet to search and book the tours, since they | | | | during his vacation. |
| find it conformable and advantageous. The special | | | | Another factor that has influenced the change of |
| attention of the press and wide access to | | | | the tourists' preferences are the flight discounter |
| information on environment protection shall | | | | companies that have allowed to quite another |
| increase popularity of the ecologic tourism. | | | | target group of people to travel and therefor |
| More and more countries have realized that the | | | | touristic companies are facing quite a different |
| tourism is one of the most profitable businesses. | | | | type of the client that they have never seen |
| Some countries even live from tourism since it is | | | | before, because he was not really able to afford |
| the largest part of their budget. The authorities | | | | such trips before. |