Individual Reflective Report

Introduction

This is my reflective report of the subject, Contemporary Issues in Travel and Tourism Industry. From this report, I would like to point out what I have gotten from and my own feeling on the content of the subject. Also, I hope to show how I get well with the topics and how I can apply the knowledge in the real-life and future.

In this subject, the lecturer taught what contemporary issue means and covered different issues such as addressing the needs of barrier-free tourism and expanding market of senior tourism. Group project was also assigned to let us learn critical thinking from the angle of business.

Before sharing my reflection on this subject, I wish to talk about my perceptions of the subject and the content. I knew it is a difficult subject that we have to keep learning what is happening around us globally. A critical and all-round thinking is needed to observe the things around us. Apart from the topics covered from the subject, there are still many things can take our attention. Not only trends change in demographics, population, education level etc, what we have to pay attention is what the issues were brought behind those changes.

My reflection of the content of the subject

What contemporary issue is

At the beginning, I learnt that contemporary issue is the current situation we are in, we are facing and we are going to deal with. It is the main concept of this subject. The issues arise due to the trends. Every change in economic factors, political factors, global factors, demographic factors, technological factors and social behavioral factors, would cause different issues formed. For example, the changes to visa...