Cultural, Social, and Physical Features of Tourist Destinations

This presentation discusses the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations, focusing on the UK and India. It compares the features of developing and leading tourist destinations and highlights the importance of cultural acceptance, planning, and location in attracting tourists.

Tourist destination
TASK 2

2.1 Cultural, social and physical features of tourist destination
Apparently, all the tourist destinations have different features through which they appeal
the visitors and enhance the level of income and prosperity. In the below mentioned section,
most important features are discussed that encourages demand for tourism in UK and India:
 Cultural
 Social
 Physical

Contd..
Cultural: Culture is regarded as the most important aspect through which large number of customers can
be persuaded towards tourism. This is also useful for the purpose of enhancing demand for travel and
tourism amenities. Cultural values and norms are followed in UK at higher extent where in people have to
emphasize on beliefs and attitudes. Thus, tourism of UK is getting more assistance from this factor and at
higher extent, tourism services are promoted.
Social: In UK, people have huge purchasing power; therefore they can spend resources in different
activities like travel and tourism and other luxury services. People in UK are migrating to different places so
as to enhance their living standard. At the same time, up to some extent, investment in travel and tourism
entity is also amending; therefore this assists the visitors to get luxury services. However, on the other
hand, economic condition of India is relatively not stable; therefore changes usually occur in income
distribution. Far from this, India is also facing challenges because of growth aspects as the country is
unable to manage resource aspects.

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Physical features: Physical features such as service capabilities and other development aspects assists
the tourism department of UK to amend demand level. All the destinations of UK are popular and they have
variety of aspects that should be focused upon for enticing the customers. Coastal region and other places
of UK have the features through which visitors can be appealed towards tourism services. London is the
chief destination in UK which has all the beauty and which can generate the degree of tourism. Hospitality
provision of UK is also effective and that assists the entities to deliver services to most of the visitors. On
the other hand, in India physical services have been assisting the visitors to visit the country on higher
extent.

2.2 Comparing features of developing and leading tourist destination
The comparison has been made between cultural, physical and social
features of UK with that to India. Thus, from the discussion, it has been identified
that India is rich in heritage and possess the people that belong to the varied
cultural background. This is the most important factor that enhances the degree
of tourism and that also attracts people towards tourism. India also posses and
promotes cultural diversity. These are the main reasons for which most of the
tourists considered this area as one of the most effective tourist destinations.
Comparatively, UK has the culture that reflects their traditional values and it also
depicts the mix of all such as high culture, arts, fashion and architecture is being
found. In the present case, comparison has been made on leading destination
and developed destination; thus the below mentioned factors have been
discussed:

Contd..
Cultural acceptance: Cultural acceptance shows that people
are ready to accept the culture of UK and at any extent, they
would not try to harm the cultural values and properties. UK
is rich in heritage tourism; hence this attracts people to
spend more resources in travel and tourism area. On the
contrary, India is also getting benefits from this aspect as
cultural values of India is also high. The country accepts
different cultural values and that prominently assists visitors.

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Planning: The most important section of tourism department is planning in
which each and every thing should be planned in a such a manner so that
large pool of tourists can be persuaded. It has been observed that UK has
adopted an integrated approach where in different agencies work together
for amending the scope of tourism. India is somewhere experiencing issues
in planning and implementation as new projects are coming for more
development. Hence, for this purpose there should be more structured way
of managing things.

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Location: Appropriate location is also required to be decided to that visitors
can visit different places properly. UK is located in coastal areas which
people prefer to visit a lot; therefore according to the destination changes
should be made in the service provision. Luxury services should be provided
to the visitors so that they can be satisfied and retained for longer time
period. Similarly, in India tourists can be appealed through focusing on
cultural and social factors. Thus, it is clear that India is the most popular
destination which represents the cultural values for different dimensions.

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