Comparative Analysis of Tourism in France and Spain

The 2 country should be France
and Spain
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Travel Geography Toolkit
1) With reference to UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2018 and 2019, identify the global
region with the strongest growth in terms of tourist numbers and income generated by
tourists. (5%)
Region: (Europe) 2017-2018
500 million
2018-2019
710 million
Number of Arrivals Income
generated by
tourists:
$570 million
Arrivals:
450 million
2) Within the identified region choose any 2 tourism destinations (provide the latest
tourists arrival information, and income generated by tourists). Reference your findings
(5%)
Destination 1.(France)
Destination 2. (Spain)
Number of Tourist arrivals:
Destination 1- Tourism in
France- 89.4 million visitors
and target of 100 million
visitors will be achieved
within 2020 (Alfandi, 2020).
Destination 2- Tourism in
Spain- As per the statistics
of 2018, 82.8 million tourist
will be visited and this is the
sixth consecutive tear of
record beating numbers.
Income generated by tourists
Tourism Revenues in France
has been decreased to 3289
EUR Million in November
from 4180 EUR Million in
October of 2019.
The contribution of tourism
has reached to the 137,020
million euros within 2017
and this represents 11.7% of
GDP.
3) Looking at the TTI competitive index how do the two destinations rank? What are
their key strengths? (5%)
Destination 1 (France)
Key strengths:
1. It is popular tourism destination due to
attractions as historical buildings, Eiffel
tower etc.
2. Health care system of the French is very
effective (Gulzar, Khan and Hamid, 2019).
Destination 2: (Spain)
Key strengths:
1. This is the substantial part of the sector’s
health is due to the quality of the tourism.
2. It is the destination that has ranked in
investment and institutional quality, such as
infrastructure and safety and security.
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3. The French relay on the country
development of the weapons, guns and
warship etc. 3. This has good education development.
With reference to your chosen countries conduct the following comparative analysis.
Compare and contrast the 2 chosen destinations to examine:
Their geographical attractiveness (250 words) (10%)
What can the destinations offer in terms of
tourism? Look at the landscape and the
topography of the destinations. Reference your
findings
Destination 1
France majorly shaped like hexagon and this
has three of its six sides that are bounded by
water. Henceforth, this destination has the the
English Channel on the Northwest, the
Atlantic Ocean and Bay of Biscay on the west,
and the Mediterranean Sea on the south-east.
In addition to this, the remaining sides are
mountainous and this also shared by the
neighbours as Germany, Switzerland,
Luxembourg on the north-east (Habib, Sharif
and Hossain, 2019).
Therefore, France is defined as microcosm of
the Europe due to three major kind of
landforms within European. France is the
destination that has coastline as 3427
kilometres long and this is also inclusive if the
644 km in Corsica (Physical - topographical
map of France, 2018 ).
Destination 2
The continents Spain is mainly divided
within the five topographic regions. This
is the destination that the almost six
principal mountains ranges. There ate the
main rivers are as Tagus, Dueto,
Guadiana and Guadalquivir that flows to
Merditerranean (Spain – Topography,
2018).
Thus, this is the destination that covered
the almost 506030 square kilometres and
this is the fifty largest country within the
world. In addition to this, the mainland
territorries covered an area of the 493,514
square kilometres. As per the geological
histoyr of the peninsula that has given the
rise to the mountains forming large chain
that is suttounds to the high inland
plateau that is situatiion iver the 600
meters above to the agerage sea level.
Thus, the costline of the spain is 5,755
Kilometers long.
What would you say the key tourism products are? (e.g Marine tourism, adventure tourism
etc.)
Destination 2
As Spain is located near the coastal area, it
comers under marine tourism.
Destination 1
In the France, Food to sailing and water
sport, there are great spots within all over
the France that has offer fun adventures
( Lew, 2020).
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