Analyzing and Comparing Windsor castle with Bran Castle

Tourist destination

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1.1 Analyzing and Comparing Windsor castle with Bran Castle...........................................................3
P1.2 Destination trends for Windsor castle and Bran Castle....................................................................4
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................5
P2.1 Identification of features of the destination spots...........................................................................5
P2.2 Comparison and contrast cultural, physical and social features of destination spots.....................5
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................................6
P3.1 Economic and Political characteristics............................................................................................6
P3.2 How these characteristics affect the tourists....................................................................................6
TASK 4.......................................................................................................................................................7
P4.1 Issues affecting the popularity of destination spots.........................................................................7
P4.2 Sustainability on responsible tourism..............................................................................................8
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
A tourist destination or attraction is considered as a place where tourists visit and spend
some quality time in order to have fun. A tourist destination can involve any naturalistic venue or
a historical place as well (Beritelli, 2011).. It is actually termed as a venue or place of interest
which is famous for some of its specific features, whether it could be its natural or manmade
beauty or the level of adventure, it can give to the people who visit these places. The report is
about analyzing and comparing two leading destinations, Windsor castle with Bran Castle.
Along with it, it also includes various features such as the social, cultural and physical features of
both these destinations. It also compiles various characteristics along with the issue that may
affect the popularity of these destinations.
TASK 1
P1.1 Analyzing and Comparing Windsor castle with Bran Castle
Windsor Castle is termed as a royal residence of Berkshire. It is famous and well known
as well for its royalty and architecture. Bran Castle is famous as a national monument and a very
well known landmark in Romania. Comparison of both these destinations are discussed as under:
Visitor profile
Windsor Castle is a very well known and famous destination spot in Berkshire whereas
Bran Castle is also known as Dracula Castle. In Windsor castle, there are various number of
buildings inside the castle itself which is an attractive feature for tourists and in Bran castle, its
architecture is what attracts the people the most.
Income generator
For having an entry in the Bran Castle, one have to pay the entrance fee of 20 LEI, after
that only, one can enter the castle. For entering in Windsor Castle, one has to pay an entrance fee
of 12LEI. The difference is because of the level of beauty of both these spots. Although both the
spots are very well known and famous but Ban Castle provides a greater amount of income
generator.
Historic Visitor number
According to the statistics, for about more than half of the million population visit Bran Castle
every second year. As it is one of the most famous tourist destination spots, the place is also
known as Dracula’s castle. As per the data, more than 800,000 visitors visited in the year 2015
and for about 630,000 people visited in 2016 (Tuclea and Nistoreanu, 2011). The beauty of the
castle attracts the visitors to a huge extent that this much of people visit every year to this
Dragon’s castle. According to the statistics, visitors in Windsor castle has been observed as