Tourist Destination

This presentation analyzes the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations and explains their appeal to tourists. It also compares the features of developing and leading tourist destinations. The presentation references Wang and Pizam's book on destination marketing and management, as well as Buhalis and Michopoulou's article on information-enabled tourism destination marketing.

TOURIST DESTINATION
TASK 2

INTRODUCTION
A tourist destination define as country, state, region, local cities
and small towns which its markets itself as a place for visitors to
visit the place. UK, USA Spain, Thailand, Italy and worldwide
tourist destinations are very popular by its attraction points,
culture, regions, languages, festivals and many different
activities. These destinations in the terms of visitor numbers and
income generation and their location. Visitors will look into the
cultural, social and physical features of those destinations and
the issues and trends that affect their popularity, as part of the
essential selling skills and knowledge needed by managers
within the travel and tourism sector. Through studying visitor
numbers, statistics and other relevant data, learners should be
more aware of past issues affecting tourism, enabling them to
appreciate the impact they can have on a destination and its
continued popularity.

2.1 Analyse cultural, social and physical features of tourist
destinations explaining their appeal to tourists.
A tourism company has seen the wide range of the
different benefits and new approaches out of these
services provide in the tourist industry. Government
also understand the need of the foreign currency to
contributing in the growth of the economy. The
tourism sector is the only one which provide and
generation the foreign currency to help in create the
new sources for the income. There are various
features of worldwide destination-

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Culture characteristic- This feature is most important
for the attraction for the visitors. The different culture
of the different destinations to attract the tourists or
its includes the many languages, festival, activities
and Semi-distinct cultural regions sports adventures.
The culture play a vital role to earn the foreign
currency.

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Physical features- This feature includes the different
environmental impact of tourism such as geographical areas
and other factors covering the vast variety of change in
climates, natural vegetation, river system and fountains
system
Social groups- This group includes different regional and
national level of residents. Its includes the different behaviour
of the local residents toward the tourists.

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2.2 Compare features of developing and
leading tourist destination
Comparison of the features of tourist destinations- There are
many tourist destination such as UK, USA, Italy, Spain and
Thailand. They all are destination have the different features
related to their culture, economical, social groups and
physical features. . These macro-level figures however hide
the unbalanced nature of global tourism. In the UK there are
destination to attract the visitors such as England, Scotland,
Ireland and Wales. Theses al the countries share the past,
history about the villages, towns, cities have much to interest
the visitors and Tourist are know more about the history, old
castles, and museums infrastructure.

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Thailand country in south-east Asia including the crystal blue
beaches, great food, cheap beach front in bungalows, thick
jungles and best hotels and resorts. Italy country history
includes the natural mountains and priceless ancient
monuments and this country famous by its rich arts stores,
architectures, food, music etc. historical places. Natural
monuments in the USA they are the largest venue for the
visitors. Sports events to make for attract the visitors and
its old places history.

Identification of cultural, social and
physical features-
One of the more significant socio, cultural and economic
features are impacts on the tourism is referred to as the
'demonstration' effect. This depends on there differences
visible between tourists and hosts. The culture features
includes the many differences such as many languages,
festival, activities and sports adventures (O'Connor,
Flanagan and Gilbert, 2010). The social features are
includes the different regions, social rules, behaviour and
different social strategies. Physical feature are includes the
country geographical characteristic, river systems and
others features.

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REFERENCES
Wang, Y. and Pizam, A. eds., 2011. Destination marketing
and management: theories and applications. Cabi.
Buhalis, D. and Michopoulou, E., 2011. Information-enabled
tourism destination marketing: addressing the
accessibility market. Current Issues in Tourism.14(2).
pp.145-168.