Marine Tourism Industry Trends And Prospects

Over the past three decades, the tourism sector has grown
significantly both in terms of tourist arrivals and tourism
receipts. The growth is reflective of the
importance of the tourism sector within the global
economy and also of changing social and economic
profiles of the world’s population — increased spending
power per capita, greater leisure time, better informed
and traveled (and thus more discerning) public, and major
demographic changes in the developed and to a certain
extent developing world leading to major changes in travel and leisure demand characteristics.