The reasons for the formation of barriers to international tourism services trade

1. Maintain domestic employment;

2. Protect the growth and development of the country’s high-quality service industry;

3. As a means to overcome the difficulty of balancing the international balance of payments ;

4. Indirectly restrict the import of goods by setting up barriers to service trade;

5. National security considerations, etc.

Trade barriers in tourism services:

The emergence and continuous strengthening of new trade barriers is not accidental. It is the product of the continuous development of international economy, society, and science and technology. The main reasons for the emergence of new trade barriers are as follows:

First, with social progress and the increasing living standards of people in developed countries, people’s awareness of safety and health has increased unprecedentedly, and they are increasingly concerned about the impact of products on their health and well-being. Safety implications.

Secondly, with the enhancement of environmental awareness, the concept of sustainable development is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. People are increasingly concerned about the sustainable development of the earth and society on which they live. Therefore, it is required that the product production and processing processes should not At the expense of destroying or sacrificing the environment, at the same time, it is required that these products should not be produced at the expense of the health of workers.

Third, the use of traditional trade barriers such as tariffs, licenses and quotas will not only be restricted by international conventions and condemned by international public opinion, but will also be prone to reciprocal retaliation. Therefore, this provides huge space for the development of new trade barriers such as green barriers. Fourth, the proportion of technology-intensive products in international trade continues to increase, and the technical issues involved in them are relatively complex.

It is easy to form new trade barriers. At the same time, highly sensitive and high-tech testing instruments provide technical and material conditions for some countries to set up new trade barriers. Fifth, in recent years, due to sluggish economic growth in major developed countries, trade protectionism has been on the rise again, and new trade barriers have become a powerful tool.

With the emergence and development of new trade barriers, trade barriers are undergoing structural changes. Traditional trade barriers are gradually becoming differentiated, with tariffs, quotas, licenses and other barriers gradually weakening.

Traditional trade barriers such as anti-dumping will continue to exist for a long time and have a tendency to be upgraded and strengthened. New trade barriers with technical barriers as the core will exist for a long time and continue to develop, and will gradually replace traditional trade barriers and become the main body of international trade barriers.