KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Running head: KEEPING UP WITH TRENDS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY 1




The hospitality industry’s past trends, current trends,


and why? It is important to keep up with the needs of the


modern consumer.


Richard N. Ornelas


Le Cordon Bleu Online








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Abstract

* In the paper, Why it is important, to keep up with the

* current trends in tourism?

* What the current trends are in the lodging industry?

* In addition, how has it affected the tourism industry?

* I will be discussing a change in the hospitality

* industry that I have seen in the past 2 years, that

* has improved the lodging experience for a specific

* group of travelers, and explain what the change was

and how it benefited these travelers.



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Keeping up with the current trends is of the utmost importance, when

dealing with the current consumer. I have found that the modern traveler wants to

have experiences built around their personal needs. Several trends have changed

over the years but the currents trends are more of an electronic and social media

age of trends. What I mean by this, you might ask? There a many social networking

websites out today like, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and many others. Without

utilizing these resources, the hospitality and tourism industry would fail in their

attempts to succeed in attracting the current traveler. If the hospitality and

tourism industry uses the social networks properly by communicating with the

consumer on a personal platform, they will be more likely to use that particular

company for their next travel experience.

Looking at some of them on these sites, it looks as if they just make the account

and walk away, that will not work; in the current market to attract the modern

consumer. The industry has to keep a close relationship with the traveler to gain

their business. On these social networks the hospitality and tourism industry has

to keep their dealing with the consumer on the positive side or the traveler will

effect there business buy posting on these social networks the negative things that

they experienced when staying at that particular establishment. Too many of these,

will drastically affect the bottom line for that business. There was a massive

change in the way travelers booked their vacations in the start of (2007) and

(2008). Today’s traveler is very impatient they do not want to dig through tons of

brochures and search a million websites. What they want is someone or something to

provide them with easy information for the dining lodging fun things to do ECT.

According to TIA’s (Ideal American Vacation Report) released in (February of 2007)

(the ideal vacation destinations for American vacation travelers are those that

offer an easy travel experience,)






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References


Here are a couple websites I have found to set up

everything you could want to do,

while on vacation.

·         Easy Travel Experience:

·         Easy Escapes Travel:

·         Luxury Cruises, All Inclusive Vacations,:

·         All Inclusive Vacation Deals | Expedia.com:

·         All Inclusive Vacations,:

Author Note


Here are a few different types of vacation made easy websites, as well as a couple

different types of vacation sites.

Since 2007, many of these websites have popped up all over the internet to make

your life a lot easier when making your travel plans.

This concludes my paper on Keeping up with trends in the hospitality industry