Tourism Destination Management

TOURISM DISTINATION
MANAGEMENT
Submitted by: Salman khan
Submitted to: Haider Mahmood
COLLEGE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT ISLAMBAD CAMPUS

INTRODUCTION
Tourism entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual
environment for personal or business/professional purposes. Tourism is the worldwide
industry to travel hotel, transportation, entertainment, and all other product and services
including the promotion selling that serves the need and wants of tourists and travelers.
According to the UNWTO, the main destination of a journey is the place which was a
decisive factor in making the decision to travel. If such place cannot be determined, the
place where the visitor spent most of the trip is considered the tourism destination.
Destination management plays a vital role in helping organizations in the travel and
tourism industry achieve their goals. It can unlock many benefits, such as delighting the
travelers so they return to the destination, increasing revenue, and building a
sustainable plan for the future. A destination can be anything, including a country,
region, province, district, city, park, museum, neighborhood, etc. Destination
management is a comprehensive process that includes the management of different
aspects of the destination.
ANALYSE THE MAIN TOURIST DESTINATION OF THE WORLD
ACCORDING TO VISITIOR NUMBERS AND INCOME GENERATION
The main tourist destinations at least top five destinations e.g. UK, Europe and the rest
of the world and to include the main generators in the world in terms of visitor numbers
and income generation. For example, by identifying the number of visitors, nights and
spending by purpose and by country of visit using the recent data available
The main tourism destinations in terms of tourist arrivals and income generation:
FRANCE
France has placed itself in the first position in among the world top tourism destinations.
The nation has been generating large amount of revenues from the tourism industry.
The travel and tourism of France directly contributed EUR77.1bn in the GDP of nation in
2014. This was 3.6% of total GDP and a raise of 2.6% pa is forecast within 2015 to
2025. It has served 84.7 million foreign visits in 2013. In 2014 France travel and tourism
had directly supported 1,132,500 jobs which were counted as 4.1% of the total
employment. A rise of 1.7% pa is been estimated in 2025.
UK
The destinations are gaining the tourist number through the popularity of cultural
tourism destination. The tourism of UK has been directly contributing GBP 61.9bn in the
GDP, considering the statistics of 2014. This is 3.5% of the GDP. The forecast has been
made on the rise by 3.2% pa from 2015 to 2025. In 2015c it has encountered 36.115
million visits. The foreign visit spent was US$22.072 billion. The domestic tourist is the
biggest component of UK tourism. The domestic tourism visit generated 81% of the
direct travel and tourism GDP in 2014 compared to the foreign spending which was
19%.