What is the importance of the policy element in tourism?
Policy is central to tourism. It’s a word everyone one likes to use but no one likes to define. Basically, there are two sorts of policy relevant to the industry: Tourism policy and policy pertaining to tourism. Important issues surrounding the future of tourism include transport, immigration, education, and employment policies – they are all linked. We teach students to identify the implications of policy and adapt to them, to recognise that tourism is lurking in many other policy arenas. Cover all the policy issues and you’ll be in a better position to predict the implications for the industry.
