Analysis of Main Tourist Destinations and Generators of the World
This unit introduces learners to the main UK and worldwide tourist destinations in terms of visitor numbers and income generation and their location.
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Analysis of Main Tourist Destinations and Generators of the World
This unit introduces learners to the main UK and worldwide tourist destinations in terms of visitor numbers and income generation and their location.
Added on 2020-06-05
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................11.1 – Analysis of main tourist destinations and generators of the world...............................11.2 Tourism destination trends and future trends...................................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Cultural, social and physical features of tourist’s destinations........................................32.2 Features of tourist destinations ........................................................................................3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................104.1 Issues that affect popularity of tourist destinations........................................................104.2 Potential for responsible tourism to enhance host community at tourist destinations...10CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
INTRODUCTIONTourism refers to trips that include travelling of natives to other destinations. Every yeararound millions of people visit other countries. There is various tourist destination in the world.The social, cultural and physical characteristic of those destinations varies a lot. Tourism is thelargest foreign exchange generator. (Swarbrooke, and Page, 2012) Potentially, tourism providesgreat advantage both for destination nation and traveller. Travel and tourism always plays a keyrole in economy of nation. It provides the merits of income, employment, growth, cultural andforeign exchange, innovation, infrastructural development to destination country. It overallcontributes to nations development by improving living conditions of nationals. TripAdvisor isone of the largest travel site which provides services to millions of people around the world.Virgin Holidays Limited is also one of the successful tour operator company. They really maketourist visit pleasurable and memorable. Task 1 1.1 – Analysis of main tourist destinations and generators of the worldUK is the first choice of tourist because of its cultural, natural and heritage attractionswhich bring great amount of income for UK. France and Germany are most popular destinationfor visiting. Germany is one of the biggest tourist generator in terms of numbers and incomegeneration. Tourism helps destination country in many ways. (Telfer, and Sharpley, 2015). Itcreate awareness of culture as visitors get to know about new culture and spread positive word ofmouth. Also it improves living standard of people by generating employment and income.Popular destination of UK is London, Edinburgh, Liverpool etc. since 2012, tourism is becomingfastest growing sector in UK which generate great amount of foreign exchange and bringemployment in country. (Dodds, Graci, and Holmes, 2010). Also it has been seen that repeatholiday tourist stay more days in UK than first time visitors. Tourism overall impact economy ofa nation. The following table shows the main tourist destination in terms of numbers and incomegenerators- S.No.CountryNO. of Visitors Income generatedin USD201520161
1United State74M78M$ 109 Billion2France 60M65M$ 90 Billion3Germany59M57M$ 69 Billion4United Kingdom 54M57M$ 74 Billion1.2 Tourism destination trends and future trendsTripAdvisor is providing services to numerous people around the world. UK isfollowing different trends to attract different travellers from the world. UK is considered as oneof the popular place of destination. (Assaker, Vinzi, and O’Connor, 2011.)United states, France,Germany and United kingdom are playing key role in tourism industry. The tourism industry willdefinitely bring benefits to destination country. Number of tourist are increasing day by day inUK due to its popular historical monuments, educational institutes and number of differentbusiness locations. The tourism increasing jobs in UK and raise standard of living in thecountry. Furthermore, it can be said that tourism industry is in favour of UK as consumer havegood spending power and thus employment will be generated. Thus, there will be significantgrowth in tourism industry in UK. IN recent times, Olympics and other sporting activities alsoplays a handy role in growth of tourism industry. (Duarte Alonso, and Liu, 2010.) London,Edinburgh, Liverpool are usually favourite location of visitors and famous for its differentplaces. Also tourism is promoted by UK through advertisements which plays significant role ingrowth of the industry. The availability of restaurants, hostels and facilities provided by trip sitewill definitely add value. The following statistics shows different cities in UK and number ofvisitors in those places - S.No.City201520161London14772151122Edinburgh121011553Liverpool8009004Bristol760375From the above given table this has been summarised that London is one of the most famousdestination which is experiencing good number of visitors every year and hence earning goodwealth through tourism.2
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