Impact of Tourism on Global Destinations

This assignment delves into the multifaceted impact of tourism on various countries worldwide. It examines the economic, social, and environmental consequences of tourism in the United Kingdom, India, Cuba, and North Korea. The analysis considers factors such as tourist arrivals, revenue generation, cultural exchange, infrastructure development, and environmental sustainability. Additionally, the report discusses the role of responsible tourism in promoting sustainable growth and benefiting host communities.

TOURIST DESTINATIONS

ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Illustration 1: Revenues of different countries in travel and tourism sector....................................3
Illustration 2: Rank of nations as per global tourist arrivals...........................................................4
Illustration 3: International tourist arrivals......................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Tourist destination is a place where visitors visit these locations to take experience of
adventure, natural beauty as well as historic buildings as well as ancient and traditional values in
the many countries. Government also gives many efforts to develop and design tourist
destinations which support to lure the visitors in their areas (Damonte, Collins and Megehee,
2012). TUI is Tourism organization which offers wide range of tourism services in different
nations. The report takes into consideration 5 tourist destinations in different locations. It
explains the present and future tourism destinations trends in the various locations of worlds.
Further, it represents the cultural, social as well as physical features of tourist destinations. In
addition to this, comparison between developing and already developed destinations has also
been done. It shows how the different characteristics of different nations can contribute in
attracting the tourists (Evans, Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). The issues which can affect the
popularity of the places are also taken into account.
TASK 1
1.1
Generally there are many tourist destinations of world which influences the visitors to
make visits:
UK & England
England is considered as one of the most visited places with regard to tourism. In
addition to this, visitors visit the country to see its different culture, heritage buildings and other
places.
 United Kingdom has achieved 8th position with regard to the frequency of the visitors
(The economic impact of the tourism industry in Spain. 2014).
 England is go 8th rank across world according to expenditure of tourists.
 As per data of 2014, total numbers of visitors in Britain were 34. 8 million. Government of United Kingdom generated 125. 2 pounds bn revenues in the year 2014.
Tourism statistics of France
In addition to this, France is considered as top destinations in terms of travel and tourism.
The place is regarded as the top destination.
 Frequency of tourist in the France in increased by 2% from the year 2012 to 2013.
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 Travel and tourism sector contributes greatly towards the economy of the country
(Brotherton, 2012). The 7% of the total GDP has also increased.
 France is quite popular among the tourists with regard to the cultural tourism (The
economic impact of the tourism industry in Spain. 2014) The frequency of tourist were 83.7 million in the year 2014.
Tourism statistics of Italy
 The total number of visitors were counted as 48.6 million in the year 2014.
 Profit made by its travel and tourism industry in 2014 was 34. 8 bn Euros. France is popular for cultural history and beaches which lure travellers and tourist-
attraction from various countries.
Tourism statistics of Spain
Spain is effective tourism location which attract many visitors from many nations.
 As per data of 2013, Spain is on the third rank as per frequency of tourists in the world.
 Country got second rank in terms revenues generation from travel and tourism industry.
 Spain gained revenue of €59.08 billion in the year 2013 (Moutinho, 2011) Total numbers of tourists were calculated to 64.8 million in the year 2014.
Tourism statistics of China
China has done effective growth in the travel and tourism sectors which are shown below
in the points.
 Tourism sector of china grown by 14% in the year 2012 as comparison of 2011.
 Chinese travel and tourism sector received 3419 billion yuan revenues in the 2012.
 Chinese is categorised under most beautiful nation in the Asian countries.
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Illustration 1: Revenues of different countries in travel and tourism sector
This graph shows revenues of generation of different countries which help to know about
most effective tourist-destination in the world. As per data of 2014, USA and Spain are most
attracted tourist locations because revenues of these countries are 125 and 58 billions dollars
respectively (The economic impact of the tourism industry in Spain. 2014).
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Illustration 2: Rank of nations as per global tourist arrivals
(Source: The economic effect of the tourism sector, 2014)
As per shown graph, these statistics shows the position of different nations in travel and
tourism sector. According to data, France and USA are come under top tourism destinations as
per data incoming international tourism arrivals (The economic impact of the tourism industry in
Spain. 2014).
1.2
As per present case, tourism sector is growing with effective speed in the world. Further,
government of various countries have initiated giving more emphasize on travel and tourism
sector which help to generate effective profit and sales (Perch-Nielsen, Sesartic and Stucki,
2010). In addition to this, many locations are not developed which creates issues to attract more
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visitors. It can be said that development of this sector is necessary governments to improve
overall standards society and communities. Further, increasing frequency of visitors at tourist-
destination indicate that more resources and facilities will be provided to develop standards of
people and tourist places in the countries. Along with this, Italy, tourist places of France as well
as United Kingdom in enhancing and growing day by days along with time (Mehmetoglu and
Norman, 2013). On the contrary note, many countries such as Greece are revealing declining the
trend due to financial issues which creates problems to develop travel and tourism sector.
However, under developed tourist destinations can developed through sorting out their financial
issues with the help of other countries. This way, these countries can increase its growth in the
above industry.
As per the existing trends, it has been ascertained that many countries in Europe has
applied restrictions on the foreign investments (Xiang and Gretzel, 2010). This means that
locations are not giving permission to invest their resources in improvement of tourism industry.
According to recent trend, visitors search for visiting the location which can give them
effective and unique experience as comparison of others. Tourist are investing their money on
adventure, cultural and green tourism to take better experience. In addition to this, they also
requires the food, accommodation, communication as well as transportation facilities for their
better flexibility (Sikdar and Vel, 2010). Hence, Government and other travel and tourism
organisations are giving appropriate efforts to improve tourism sector in the countries.
Destinations like UK, Italy and France contains effective cultural heritage and monuments which
lure visitors from various countries.
Government are provided more emphasize on development of Eco- tourism. Further,
European Union are providing much focus on formulation of new plans and policies to increase
business travel and tourism sector by increasing awareness new tourism trends. They provide
focus on the develop tourism industry by increasing more employment opportunities. Along with
this, few important trends in three locations like UK (Assaker, Vinzi. and O'Connor, 2011),
Spain as well as France are given below as:
 Reducing constraints in terms of travelling among countries.
 Improving and designing new marketing strategies which can help to promote the
destinations. This process can contribute effective role for government of those nations to
attract more visitors and attract more tourist.
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Illustration 3: International tourist arrivals
(Source: Visitors Economy facts. 2010)
The above statistics reflects that arrivals at the international level has increased significantly.
Apart from that it has been assessed that the number of arrivals will reach to 1.56 billion in the
coming years. However in order to accomplish these figures, the locations are required to be
advertised and promoted (Visitors Economy facts. 2010). So this strategy can help the
government of many countries to reach this figure in the world.
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TASK 2
Power point presentation
TASK 3
3.1
The economic and political conditions of UK and North Korea are different from each other.
Comparative
factors
UK North Korea
Economic
growth
Generally travel and tourism sector of
this nation is developing with effective
speed. In addition to this, It has provided
better opportunities to develop different
types of business (Peeters and
Dubois ,2010). Travel and tourism
industry contribute effective role for
United Kingdom to improve its GDP and
GNP rates. In addition to this, it is
forecasted that this sector will produce a
revenue of £27 in the year 2025. Further,
the demand of United Kingdom global
and local travellers are expected to
enhance 3 to 6 percent.
On the other side, North Korea has
effective tourist destinations but it is
not able lure the tourist as comparison
of UK. So these conditions does not
help in increasing more economic
growth. In addition to this, due to
negative image in mind of foreigners
prefer less to visit North Korea as
compared with UK (Hjalager, 2010).
Political
condition
Political condition like government
stability, reduced corruption level,
average taxes and tariffs contribute
effectively to increase its business of
travel and tourism sector (Hudsonand
Thal, 2013). So these factors helps this
sector to increase its growth as
Political conditions of North Korea is
not effective. Further, this nation is
ruled by single party which create
complete monopoly. Government
faces various type of Up down in the
country. Due to these reasons, travel
and tourism sector North Korea is not
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comparison of previous years in the
United Kingdom.
developed as comparison of UK
(Seetanah, 2011)
Frequency of
tourists
Generally frequency of tourist are
approximate 33 million tourists every
years due to its better culture and historic
buildings which lure tourists in the
United Kingdom (Surugiu and Surugiu,
2013).
The numbers of visitors in North
Korea is approximate 11 million
which is very less than UK. In
addition to this, government of North
Korea is giving priorities to develop
travel and tourism sector which can
help to grow its sector.
Product
development
The government as well as regulatory
organisations are providing effective
support new innovation of product and
development services in the tourism
sector. This strategy play important role
for travel and tourism sector to increase
its business in a appropriate manner.
Earlier, the government of North
Korea was not taking interest to
improve tourism sector. They spend
more money to develop other sector.
Now days, the perception of
Government have change regarding
travel and tourism sector (Spenceley,
2012).
3.2
Cuba is a nation which comes under the domain of Caribbean island. The place is regulated
by a communist party. The destination is also popular because of the presence of beaches and
white sand. In addition to this, Capital of Cuba is Havana which lure many visitors (Evans,
Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). Further, People comes from many nations to visit great
Spanish colonial architecture. Classical dances of Cuba is also popular like Cha Cha, Mambo as
well as Bolero which attract the foreigners to visit these places. There are many things which can
appeal to the visitors. They are described below in the points.
Geography and location: It can be said as most important characteristic which contribute
effectively to increase frequency of consumers in the country. This country is located on the east
of Gulf of Mexico (Moutinho, 2011). Along with this, average temperature of Cuba is
approximate 25 degree which provide effective reliability to their people and visitors. The
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country is also having a favourable kind of climate which is neither too hot nor too cold which
attract the most visitors to enjoy on the beaches. So these geographical condition play important
role for Cuba to increase frequency of tourists.
Demographic conditions: The population of the country is approximate 11.17 billion.
Majority of the population is categorized under Mulatto. It is a word used to explain those
people who has one white and one black parent. On the other hand, 11% populations of Cuba's
are come under Negro which are black people. In addition to this, 37% of total population are
categorised under the white people in Cuba (Perch-Nielsen, Sesartic and Stucki, 2010).
Architecture and urbanization: The culture at the country is very different and it is
kind of combination
Generally, trend of Cuba is distinctive and it is combination of Asian, Spanish, African
and French culture. Further, majority of Architecture are made in Spanish culture which attract
the people. Along with this, there many churches, lanes, and attractive monuments which
contribute effectively to increase travel and tourism sector (Mehmetoglu and Norman, 2013).
Urbanization of Cuba country is effective as there is significant development of cities that assist
the traveller in availing necessary facilities sand services.
Food- It can be said that varied types of root vegetables and fruits are produced due to
tropical climatic condition within Cuba. Furthermore, it acts as one of the crucial part of meals
for this country. People of this nation depends on different set of foods such as fried pork skins,
Cuban sandwich, black beans, white rice as well as Chicharrones which are liked by visitors
(Xiang and Gretzel, 2010).
TASK 4
4.1
In the last years, TUI group has given effective efforts to promote sustainable tourism.
On the other side, there are many key issues which create bad impact on the popularity of tourist
destinations. Some of them are stated below in the paragraph.
Terrorist: To manage the travel and tourism operations effectively, TUI group has to take
deal with terrorism issues in many countries. Generally increasing terrorist activities also affect
the travel and tourism operations in many countries (Sikdar and Vel, 2010). In addition to this, it
reduces frequency of visitors at the tourist places which creates adverse impact on the business
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of travel and tourism sector. There are many attack are conducted by terrorist which create fear
in the mind of national and international visitors. For example, in a recent time, terrorist attack of
Paris also threatened the domestic people and foreign visitors in the country (Parris attacks,
2016). In addition to this, thousands of people killed in this attack and government faces loss of
public and private property (Assaker, Vinzi. and O'Connor, 2011). So this type of terrorist attack
affects the travel and tourism business for long amount of time in the country. Further, it also
create bad impact on the economic growth of country.
Natural disaster: It can be considered as other major issues for TUI group because it
produced bad impact on travel and tourism operations (Brotherton, 2012). Natural disaster can
also affect the travel and tourist destinations which create higher loss of monetary funds due to
damaging popular locations. It harms life of domestic people and tourists which create huge
complexities for them. For example, recent earthquake of Nepal created huge loss of human life,
public and private properties which were among the prominent destination of tourism. With this,
economic growth of the country also get affected which certainly makes an impact on the
tourism. Due to this, there is huge decline in the number of visitors that affects income from
tourism. Hence, such issue affects the business activity of TUI at several tourism destinations
(Sivesan, 2012).
Disease: It is another crucial issue for TUI group that affects the capability of company
to handle travel and tourism operations. In case, any severe diseases spread at particular
destination, than overall sale of the company of that destination declines drastically. In addition
to this, many visitors consider this type issue prior travelling to any tourist locations because it
can create threat of their life at these places (Elodie, Dimanche and Mounet, 2010). So this type
of disease can decrease frequency of visitors at travel and tourism locations which can directly
impact of business of TUI group in many areas. Along with this, it not only put life of visitors
but also it can also affect the life of local people.
4.2
Responsible tourism can be defined as activity of developing or improving tourism in a
manner through which major benefits is earned in terms of economy, environment as well as
society. Further, it aims to decline the cost that incurred for the development of tourism
destination (Evans, Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). In a present days, government and
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corporation doesn’t focuses more on issue related to environment and society as there is huge
development at the locations.
Responsible tourism is a tactic that highly aims on the enhancement and development of
tourism of sustainable nature. TUI group assure that environment and society doesn’t get
affected with the rising development of tourist destinations in many countries. Through influence
of sustainable tourisms, organisation design tourist location which give effective growth to
environment, society and economy of nation (Navickas and Malakauskaite, 2015). In a present
condition, visitors also like to visit destinations which promotes and advertises sustainable
tourisms. This type of tourism maintain the natural environment in the country. In addition to
this, TUI group is also running its operation in these countries such as Turkey, Thailand, Cuba,
Jamaica, Costa, Egypt as well as Ric Mexico which contribute effectively to encourage travel
and tourism sector. Further, organisation provide quality services and facilities like better
transportation, food, accommodation as well as heath care services which contribute effectively
to increase host community at tourist destinations of world wide (Perch-Nielsen, Sesartic and
Stucki, 2010). These strategies also help TUI group to increase its image front of visitors in
these areas. Further, Responsible tourism can be promoted through developing effective tourism
places regarding packages.
Along with this, TUI group need to focus on issues like terrorism which certainly affects
the tourist destination such as Turkey and Egypt. For this, appropriate measures are necessary to
reduce such set of activities and to safeguard the life of tourist and domestic people (Evans,
Stonehouse and Campbell, 2012). So these kinds of efforts will contribute effective role for TUI
group to increase numbers of visitors in the many countries. To increase the host community at
worldwide tourist destination, TUI Group requires to deal with health and safety of all its visitors
in the country. The improvement in strategies regarding marketing, promotion as well as
advertisement of this location is necessary for this group to increase its profit (Dickinson, and
Lumsdon, 2010). In addition to this, these strategies help to create appropriate awareness
regarding tourist destinations in visitors. They support the travel and tourism sector to enhance
the business by endorsing new tourist locations like Cuba and Thailand.
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CONCLUSION
Based on above report, it is found that effective statistical information helps the
government to develop travel and tourism sector by making effectual tactics. It supports the legal
bodies to find out the present and future tourism trends in present sector. Further, cultural,
physical as well as social features of tourist destinations contribute effectively to improve travel
and tourism sector in United Kingdom and India. In addition to this, Economic growth, political
condition, frequency of visitors as well as product development contribute effectively to achieve
appropriate information regarding UK and North Korea. Geography, location, demographics,
architecture along with urbanization aids to know about the current condition of travel and
tourism sector in Cuba. Further, Terrorist attack, natural disasters as well as various type of
severe diseases create bad effect on tourist destinations and TUI group by reducing its business
in these countries. It is even evident from this study that responsible tourism supports to enhance
host community at the global tourist destinations.
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