Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected due to an increase in technology, trade and cultural exchange. Telecommunication is the transmission of messages over some distances to communicate with others. At the start of telecommunication there were much slower methods such as fax machines. In recent years, they have become much quicker and more efficient. They have also become much cheaper for example social networking is completely free.
Businesses such as EasyJet and Ryanair have benefit from this. They have used technological advances to their advantage by increasing their internet bookings online and also offer self packaging, where they provide the flight but also give an option to book a hotel
Domestic tourists are ones that travel to places inside their own country. Tourists that travel outside their own country and cross another country’s boarder are considered as international tourists. There are two main reasons for the rapid growth of tourism, these include: increase in leisure time and incomes and technology. The push for the advance of technology has led to travelling being cheaper, quicker and safer. Trade Most goods we buy have a label on them.
Globalisation has many positive impacts. For example it has created this idea of a smaller world by bringing people from afar closer together through sites such as Skype. So now people in America for example can speak face-to-face with people in Australia. This will in turn increase the number of long distance travellers and migrants as they will be reassured that they can keep in touch with people important to them just over the internet. Globalisation has led to an easier life in many ways due to development, people now have more variety than ever before, technology has made things incredibly easy and quick for people.
Social Media With the rapid growth of social media in recent years, it’s no surprise that millions of people are affected by its existence. Social media does provide many benefits. On the downside, it offers an escape from reality which negatively impacts individuals. Relationships between people are also influenced big time, both negatively and positively. Social media can be useful in many ways.
Therefore, globalisation through the digital age and transnational corporations can have a powerful influence on the reduction of inequalities, but can also cause inequalities to rise. Globalisation and the digital age have a strong relationship, and in some sense, they fuel each other. The digital age has meant the introduction of the internet, many social networking sites and knowledge based search engines such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. They have led to a faster growing rate of globalisation which has now made it easier to transfer knowledge and news around the world in a matter of seconds. This can be seen recently, in the Arab Spring, in which Egypt’s uprising was greatly influenced, caused, and widened by the social networks Facebook and Twitter.
As we take a look at the transformation of technology and how it has affected our world, and the activities that we now partake in, it is evident to see that there has been a big impact on our leisure time. Our lives have been changed in a way where we can use the modern day technology to our advantage, so that we are able to maximize the amount of time we spend on leisurely activities. Technology has given many individuals the privilege to travel and enjoy their vacations, while still being connected to their work. Communicating with family and friends has now been made more efficient by means of social networking, cell phones, e-mails and the Internet as a whole. GPS systems and advances of highways have made it easy to transport to places of different surroundings where leisure activities are highly recognized.
In poorer countries, globalization brings the chance to sell their relatively low cost labor onto world markets. It brings the investment that creates jobs, and although those jobs pay less than their counterparts in rich economies, they represent a step up for people in recipient countries because they usually pay more than do the more traditional jobs available there. In addition to this, information via the internet is available to many people because of globalization. The case studies book mentions the specific example of the Darfur crisis. Because of globalization and the access to information, attention was able to be drawn to the cause and help put a stop to it.
It’s new east European members are those who use this opportunity more frequent. There are several advantages of studying and working abroad, for single people as well for the countries and the whole world. Firstly, international resources are maintained better this way, knowledge spreads faster, qualification and employability increases all over the world. For example, students from India or China, who study in UK or US, often get much higher level of education than in their home country. Working abroad, they expand their knowledge and skills, which may be useful for their country in case they come back.
This makes booking holidays to and buying goods from areas all around the world. As well as this, it has made it a lot easier to communicate with people in totally different counties and even continents. The internet, along with social media sites like Face book and Skype as well as e-mails allows for easy communication around the entire world. Also, the advances in transport, and more specifically cheaper and cheaper air travel with firms like Ryan air and Easy jet allows for holidays to places further aboard. Countries like this were thought to be very far away but we can now go to them with a few clicks of a mouse and a cheap plane trip.