Cultural, Social, and Physical Features of Tourist Destinations

This presentation focuses on the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations and their appeal to tourists. It explores the attributes of developed and leading tourist destinations, with a comparison between developing and leading destinations. The presentation also highlights the similarities and differences between the UK and India as tourist destinations.

Tourist
Destinations
TASK 2

INTRODUCTION
The present section is focused on cultural, social and physical
attributes of tourist destinations while elaborating their appeal to
tourists. Further, the attributes of developed and leading tourist
destination will be explained.

2.1 Analyzing the cultural, social and physical
features of tourist destinations while elaborating
their appeal to tourist.
In order to facilitate the study, developing country
like, India can be selected. It is a south Asian
nation that is recognized for its diversified and
vibrant culture. Therefore, it is best place for the
individuals interested in cultural, heritage tourism.
The country have many tourist attractions like, Taj
Mahal, Red Fort, Qutb Minar, beaches of Goa,
temples of Puri etc. The appeal of these destination
depends upon the social, cultural and physical
features of different sites. The description of which
is in following slides.

Social features
The social features refers to those
cultural norms, behaviours, values,
language etc in the society that
distinguish one group from another.

Social features
• Language: AS per the 2001 Census report of India, there are 122
main language and 1599 other language. The 8th schedule of Indian
Constitution list total 22 language. The offical language is Hindi
while corporate one is English. Other than this, Tamil, Sanskrit,
Odia, Telgu, Malayalam and Kannada are major classical language
of India.
• History: Civilization of India is very old. Basically, the culture of
Hadappa and mohenjodaro famous which attract different travellers
in the country. Due to this, many academcians visit the nation to
improve their knowledge about history of India.
• Religion: There are different religion that are followed in India. As
per this, Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism,Jainism
are the major religion that are followed in India. Therefore, tourist
can visit to experience different religion.

Physical features
They are those features that play strong role in
driving the attention of maximum audience on the
basis of its appearance, climatic conditions,
availability of infrastructure etc

Physical
• Climate: The climate of India differs from one state to other
because of its tropical nature. The major season of India are
summer, autumn, spring and monsoon.
• Accommodation: In order to assure convenience to guest there are
various private owned and government lodging facilities available
for international and domestic tourist. Both luxurious, budgeted
accommodation facility are available for guest. Further, there are
many international and national 5 star hotels and restaurant which
provides better hospitality facilities to tourist. For instance, Taj
Group, Marriott, Hilton hotels etc.
.

The cultural features refers to way of life
of particular group of individuals. It is
determined on the basis of the behaviour
of people, their beliefs, values, arts and
customs that are accepted and valued by
them.
Cultural

Cultural
• Tradition: Culture of India is refered as amalgamation of diverse
culture. The major attrbutes of culture of India involve, its religion,
traditions, cuisne, philosophy etc. The traditions also contribute
effectively in analysing the living standard and perception of
people. Further, Each and every state of India have diverse
traditions, customs, language, art, architecture, and food. It further
have profound affect on the overseas travellers.
• Attitude: The attitude and nature of Indian citizen play a important
role in boosting tourism. The Indian people treat their guest as God
and their is old saying in this respect “Athithi devo bhav”. Therefore
the helping nature of local people play a major role in attaracting
national and international tourist which also help in enhance the
tourism business of coutry.

Social, culture and physical
features of UK
The social, culture and physical factors supports the tourism industry
of UK. The help in attracting the maximum travelers from overseas
market.

Social features
• Language: Basically, the official language of UK is English which
is spoken by 95% of the population. Other than this, there are
languages like Welsh spoken mainlyin Wales. While, in Scotland,
Gaelic is offical language.
• History: The history of UK is classified among the oldest
civilization that stimuate the interest of large number of individuals
and stimulate them to visit the historical places therein. The country
is known for its heritage, musuem, art galleries and famous libraries.
• Religion: Christanity is the major religion of UK. Further, the
significant number of individuals in UK comprised of Roman
Catholics, followed by British Jews. Other than this,there are minor
peopleor groups who follow, Isalm, Hindusim, Skhism etc.

Physical features
• Climate: Climate of United Kingdom is very soothing and
atttrcative which draws attention of many overseas travellers. The
climate of UK is called as temperate maritime. The overall
emperature of country does notincrease beyond 32 degrees in the
Summer and lower than 0 degree Celcius.
• Accommodation: Being a developed nation, the lodging facilties
available in nation are good which help in reducing the
inconvenience level of customers. There are many renowned hotels
that are founded in UK, like Red Carnation, Dorchester Collection
etc.

Cultural
• Tradition: There are various area of Britain such as Wales, northern
Ireland along with Scotland which have own special values, beliefs
and culture. Further, major people follow Christian religion in the
nation.
• Attitude: Nature and attitude of UK people is quite formal which
does not provide more support to the international visitors. This type
of nature affect travel and tourism sector to increase frequency of
global travellers in the Britain.

2.2 Comparing the features of developing
and leading tourist destinations
In the present section, comparison about the features of
developed and developing destination will be provided. The
distinction will be based on diverse features. The detailed
description of which is in preceding slides.

Differences of developing and leading
tourist destinations
Basis UK India
Social The nature of UK citizens is
more formal. They are less
interactive and friendly.
The nature of Indian people is causal
due to which they are friendly,
interactive and jovial towards their
guest.
Language The official language of UK is
English which is also spoken by
more than 95% of people.
Mostly, Hindi is spoken by people in
India. Other than this, there are many
religonal languages that are used in
particular state.
Technological Technological advancement
such as digital techniques
communication facilities are
highly improved in UK.
Technological progress in India is slow
as compare to UK.
Infrastructure Infrastructural development ratio
is quiet high as government
make changes in taxation level
to increase infrastructure in
country. There are many
The infrastructure is poor due to high
corruption. The funds allocated for
such project is not used properly

Similarities of developing and
leading tourist destinations
Basis UK India
Cultural UK government and
tourism entity focus on
marketing and promotion
of its cultural and other
values to boost tourism
India use various
marketing campaign to
boost tourism. Such as,
Icredible India launched by
Ministry of Tourism.
Social In order to relate with
each other, people use
handshake as gesture.
In India, namastey is
common gesture used by
people.

CONCLUSION
From the aforementioned section, it is ascertained that cultural, social
and physical attributes of tourist destinations play a major role in
boosting the travel and tourism industry of UK and India. With this
they support the economic development of nation by contributing
through GDP, lowering the unemployment level etc.

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