OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2016
Tourism Trends and Policies, published biennially, analyses tourism performance and major policy trends, initiatives and reforms across 50 OECD countries and partner economies, providing up-to-date tourism data and analysis. The report is an international reference and benchmark on how effectively countries are supporting competitiveness, innovation and growth in tourism.
Tourism has successfully weathered the effects of the global economic crisis, and active tourism policies have played an essential role in supporting a competitive and sustainable tourism economy. The 2016 edition captures these ongoing trends - presenting standardised data covering domestic, inbound and outbound tourism, enterprises and employment, and internal tourism consumption - and reports on how seamless transport can enhance the tourism experience, as well as the opportunities, challenges and implications of the sharing economy for tourism.
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Seamless transport to enhance the visitor experience
This chapter examines the interdependent relationship between transport and tourism, the importance of seamless connections at transport hubs, and key factors to enhance the visitor experience, including: convenient multimodal transport options to access destinations; efficient connections between interregional and local modes; integrated ticketing; multilingual user information and way-finding; baggage transfer and storage options, and; ease of access for travellers with limited mobility. The chapter encourages tourism and transport policy-makers to work more closely together to design transport services and infrastructure that respond to the needs of all travellers. It concludes that if transport and tourism development strategies are not well synchronised, destinations may not be able to accommodate actual or potential visitor numbers and flows, and mobility around the destination will be restricted, potentially decreasing the quality of visitor experiences.
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