A Comprehensive Report on Global Tourist Destinations and Trends

This report examines the global tourism industry, focusing on leading tourist destinations worldwide, including the USA, China, Spain, France, the UK, and Australia. It analyzes visitor numbers, income generation, and emerging trends influencing the sector. The report delves into the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations, comparing leading and developing destinations and their characteristics. It identifies key issues affecting destination popularity, such as lack of infrastructure and services, and explores potential solutions through responsible tourism. Case studies of Nepal and Australia highlight specific challenges and methods for improvement, offering a comprehensive overview of the industry's dynamics and future prospects. The report is contributed by a student to be published on the website Desklib.

Tourist Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Main tourist destinations and generators of the world in terms of visitor numbers and
income generation..................................................................................................................1
1.2 Statistics to determine tourism destination trends and predict future trends in Sydney. .3
Task 2 ..............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Understand the cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations...................5
Information pack....................................................................................................................7
2.2 Comparing features of developing and leading tourist destinations...............................7
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Comparison between the appeal of current leading tourist destinations with that of
currently developing tourist destinations................................................................................8
3.2 Characteristics of a tourist destination affecting its appeal..............................................8
Task 4 ..............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Analysing issues that affect the popularity of tourist destinations...................................8
4.2 Potential for responsible tourism to enhance the host community at worldwide tourist
destinations...........................................................................................................................10
Methods used by Nepal to overcome the issues ..................................................................10
Methods used by Australia to overcome the issues .............................................................11
Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism is one of the fastest growing industry in the world, increasing demand
of services in tourism industry is highly influencing profitability and development of each and
every country (Barreira and Cesário, 2018). There are various tourists destination in the world
are generating income for their respected countries. The present report will discuss main
destinations in tourism industry all around the world along with statistics such as income
generation, visitors etc. Cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations will also
determined in this study. Furthermore, the report will include compare leading and developing
destinations in tourism along with their characteristics that are affecting their appeal among the
tourists. The report will also identify various issues or challenges that affect popularity of tourist
destinations.
Task 1
1.1 Main tourist destinations and generators of the world in terms of visitor numbers and income
generation
There are many tourist destinations in the world where tourist go to spend quality time,
but here five destinations are chosen which have higher number of visitors. Tourists give income
to local people who resides at those destinations.
USA: It is one of the best tourist destination in the world. It has contributed lot to the
GDP of nation which has developed tourism of the country to a great extent. US$ 455 billion has
been earned by the nation from tourism sector. So many people got employment due to growth in
the tourism sector of the nation (Reitsamer and Brunner-Sperdin, 2017)..Tourism sector is the
largest employer sector in the USA. Big investment has been made in this industry of around US
$145 billion in recent years. More than 75 million international guests visited in 2015..
China: China doest not have higher tourist visits in past years. But it has grown recently
and made the country in profitable position in world tourism ranking. As per the data collection,
china has welcomed 133.8200 million tourist which is a high growth for the nation. Tourism
sector has given employment opportunities to people who resides in china to a good extent. 3%
total employment of china is supported by travel and tourism. In 2017, revenues from tourism
had amounted to about 4566 billion yuan (China's revenue from tourism. 2017).
Spain – The Spain tourism has a contributed EUR58.8 billion directly in to GDP of the
year 2014. A increment of 2.3% has been expected form Spain tourism till the end of 2025. Total
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contribution of this tourism has been 15.2% that is around EUR161.0 billion. This industry has
generated more than 870000 jobs in the employment. It is determined as 5.0% of the total
employment which is expected to raise around 5.4% .
France – France has placed itself in the leading position among world's top tourism
destination. It is generating a huge amount of income or revenue from the tourism industry. The
travel & tourism industry of France contributed more than EUR77.1 billion in the GDP of
country in the year 2014. This was 3.6% of the total GDP and expected to increase by 2.6% per
annum within till 2025. It has served more than 84 million foreign tourists according to recent
studies. The country provided employment to more than 1,132, 500 individuals which were
identified to be 4.1% of the total employment.
UK – United kingdom is also gaining increased number of tourists through its popular
cultural tourism destination. The tourism of UK directly contributed more than $61.9 billion in
the GDP of he nations as per the statistics of 2014. It was 3.5% of the total GDP of that specific
year. In the year 2015, more than 36.115 million. Domestic tourist is the largest element of
tourism in United Kingdom. Total employment or jobs contributed by UK tourism previous year
were around 1,892,500. The top tourist attractions of UK in around these places include St.
Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London, Birmingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and the Royal
Academy of Arts.
Australia – In case of Australia, the tourism is a major sector that is highly contributing
in the GDP of the nation. The Australian tourism industry also suffered negatively a little bit due
to the crisis but in the year 2010-2011, although this industry got affected by various economic
challenges and natural disasters the number of tourists has been increasing. The major tourist
destinations of Australia are Sydney and Melbourne (Croce and Perri, 2017).
DATA TABLE
Countries 2015 2016 2017
USA 77.5 million visitors
and US$7.6 trillion
generated
75.9 million visitors
and US $7.2 trillion
generated
75.1 million visitors
and 1.3 trillion dollars
generated
China 98.8 million visitors
and 432 billion U.S.
302 million visitors
and $563.6 billion
139 million and USD
1.35 trillion dollars
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dollars dollars generated
Spain 60.8 million tourists
154 billion euros
generated
75.3 million visitors
and 163.5 billion
generated
82 million visitors and
172.9 billion euros
generated
France 84.5 million tourists
and 57,363 USD
82.6 million visitors
tourists and 42,454
USD generated
89 million visitors
and $9.50 billion
generated
UK 36.115 million
visitors and
US$22.072 billion
generated
37.3 million visitors
and £22.5 billion
generated
39.2 million visitors
and £24.5 billion
generated
Australia 7.4 million visitors
and A$47.5 billion
8.3 million visitors and
$42.3 billion generated
8.8 million visitors and
$41.3 billion
1.2 Statistics to determine tourism destination trends and predict future trends in Sydney.
Emerging changes and trends are major forces that influence travel and tourism industry,
the demand related to this industry is rising all round the world. It is important identify these
trends and adapt effective strategies in order to attract tourists from various countries. Trends can
be opportunities or threats for tourist destinations. In order to grab the opportunities development
in the services or tourism sector are required along with the future predictions related to the
destination.
Emerging trends in tourism industry can be discussed as below -
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1. Long haul at low cost – This trend has become a major element in tourism industry at
present, to get away from overcrowded destinations near home, tourists in UK are
looking further. They can get advantage of favourable long haul prices through advance
booking.
2. Modern offerings for modern society – This also a major change in tourism sector,
companies are realising that not every family has two parents and not every tourist has
someone to travel with. Hotels and resorts started introducing common dining for tourists
so that tourists can have a good time.
3. Culture is the new adventure – There is a increasing demand for cultural experiences in
tourism industry, the studies reported that there is 45% drop in adventure holidays such
as skydiving, bungee jumping etc. On the other hand food adventure tour, cultural
destinations tours have raised with 20%.
Statistical data of destination in United Kingdom can represent the current trends which
are influencing tourism industry or related services (Luo, Becken and Zhong, 2018). The
increasing demand of leisure tourism in Sydney have been affecting the services of the travel and
tourism sector. Enhanced spending of leisure tourism rather than the business tourism are driving
changes in the tourism product development planning. Sydney is a developed tourist destination
as identified above are highly visited by tourists for various reasons such as study, holiday or
transit. The expenditure and number of visits under various purposes or categories from 2010 –
2015, statistics for Sydney as tourist destination has been shown below, it is illustrating number
of visitors and their spending for different purposes.
Data Purpose
Busines
s
Holiday
2010
8,168
9,713
2011
9,019
10,566
2012
8,845
10,758
2013
8,124
10,923
2014
6,579
11,424
2015
6,793
11,668
2016
7000
11,800
2017
7,200
12,000
Visits Study
VFR
Busines
s
605
8,687
4,055
698
9,406
4,753
652
9,720
4,546
559
9,727
4,575
503
8,783
3,686
505
8,408
4,037
510
8,900
4,200
550
9,100
4,500
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Spend
(£m)
Holiday
Study
VFR
4,516
1,111
3,218
4,968
1,216
3,562
5,348
1,135
3,590
5,480
1,200
3,816
6,376
1,370
3,781
6,638
1,417
3,554
6,500
1,600
3,700
6,800
1,800
3,900
Future predictions in Tourism industry
Task 2
2.1 Understand the cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations
Nepal
Nepal is a very beautiful city of Nepal which also tends to be the largest city in the
country. It is known to be very attractive because it resides near to Himalayas which has natural
falls and famous and scenic beauty of Phewa Lake. Along with this, city has natural view of the
snowy mountains of the Himalayas, which makes it heaven on the earth. The city is also famous
for its many temples and religious places associated with Hinduism and Buddhism
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Illustration 1: Future predictions in Tourism industry
(Source : Growth in tourism, 2018)

The city of Nepal known as Pokhara is famous for trekking as many people visit the
country for the purpose of trekking. Many people go and enjoy their hobby of climbing and
trekking on mountains. The nation has enjoyed higher growth and urbanization in past few years.
So it is considered to be one of the most important and developed tourist destinations of Nepal.
Nepal government has developed many infrastructures facilities like airports and shopping malls
so that it can attract many people to visit the country. It has also been easy for local public to
reside due to better infrastructure facilities. Every country wishes to attract as many people as it
can to welcome incomes and development of the nation. Thus the country has a very good mix of
modern infrastructure as well as traditional and heritage cultureThis place has developed
trekking hobby in many people and thus it helped everyone who visits to have a wonderful
experience of their life.
Australia
The above detail has made it very clear that culture of Nepal is entirely different from
that of Australia. The nature has made both the cities completely different and beautiful in their
own way.
So both the countries attracts tourists but in entirely different way. As it depends on the
person that what they wish to see and enjoy. If someone wishes to enjoy historical place then
Australia is an option for them. Whereas, if a person loves to do trekking and enjoys natural
beauty scenes more than they should visit near to Nepal.One of the reasons of attracting more
tourism in Australia is due to its infrastructure. As this country have better physical amenities as
in comparison to Nepal. Although the cost of living is high in Australia which is not been
affordable by every person. This makes the people think before visiting the place. Further,
considering the social factors, Nepal has not grown much in terms of business or any other
attraction is not there such as sporting event or education Centre. Thus, government of Nepal
needs to develop all these facilities so that it can enjoy more people and growth. This will also
result in giving employment to people and income to the country. In Australia it was the most
famous as British Empire has accepted its culture by appraising it. In the year 1788 it has also
come up with numerous new cultures which are accepted by the government. There are many
beautiful museums, arts and galleries present in the city. As, Sydney follows different cultures
which have many attractive points. Due to the dynamic culture the city has many museums,
galleries and art spaces. The city is also home to many festivals, Film Festival and the Sydney
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Royal Easter show. It attracts many tourists and gives income to local people of the city. Sydney
is one of the oldest cities in Australia which is a popular tourist determination but many changes
accepted by it since old times.
Sydney has very good social life which is completely driven by events of sports and
majorly it has a huge business hub. People of Sydney are active in business which creates a
social culture of earnings saving among people(Croce and Perri, 2017). Thus, it has increased the
value of city in past few years. As people of Sydney are highly involved in business sector, it
gives so employment to people and it is called as home for economic sectors such as mining, real
estate, health and social community services etc(Lado-SestayFernández-Castro2018).
Sydney is a developed city which has good infrastructure facilities and good transport
networks. It has helped in attracting many visitors as every traveller wants to enjoy physical
facilities while travelling to another city. Safety is also a reason for people for to visit Sydney.
Physical features of city also include different hotels which avail all facilities for visitors. In
addition to this, transport facility for both within the city and outside city is quite good. Airport
and international facilities of Sydney also make different people to come and visit the city (Su
and Swanson, 2017). There are many international airports in the world which makes it possible
for people to go in different parts of the world. It resulted in the injection of $11.7 billion into
the economy of the city . Thus considering this it can be said that city has evolved over the time
period and is currently having numerous tourists and is one of the most important tourist
destinations of the country.
Information pack
2.2 Comparing features of developing and leading tourist destinations
Nepal Australia
 Language – Nepalese, Newar, Maithili
languages
 Population – 30.43 million
 Language – English,Arabic, Tagaloc,
Punjabi.
 Population – 22.26 million
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 Government type - federal
parliamentary democracy and a
Commonwealth realm
 Environment issues - soil erosion from
overgrazing, industrial development,
urbanization, and poor farming
practices
 Religion – Buddhist, Hindu and
Muslim
 Major destinations – Thamel, Chitwan
national park, Kathmandu valley,
Pokhara.
 Government type - federal democratic
republic
 Environmental issues - deforestation
(overuse of wood for fuel and lack of
alternatives); contaminated water
 Religion – Christianity including
catholic, Anglic
 Major destination – Sydney Opera
house, Uluru, Great ocean road, Great
Barrier reef.
Task 3
3.1 Comparison between the appeal of current leading tourist destinations with that of currently
developing tourist destinations
Covered in PPT
3.2 Characteristics of a tourist destination affecting its appeal
Covered in PPT
Task 4
4.1 Analysing issues that affect the popularity of tourist destinations
Issues in Nepal
Nepal is a very small country which resides in the foothills of Himalayan range. The
tourism in the country is such due to the heritage of Nepal, its natural beauty and the
opportunities to travel through for people, rock climbers and the adventure lovers. Although in
recent years there was 21.4% growth in number of visitors coming to the country which shows
that there is much more possibility for tourism in the country. Some factors are discussed below
which affect the popularity of the nation are as under.
 Lack of Transport and Communication: Transport is the basic facility that is required
by every person to move from one place to another. Nepal is not very developed in terms
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of transportation which creates difficulty for the people to know more about the country.
As before visiting to any place every person takes the entire detail and knowledge about
the city and the nation. Lack of communication leads to disconnect Nepal from the rest of
the world. In addition to this, The lack of technology and innovative facilities are not
there which affects the transport and communication in the country and thus it results in
less tourism in the country. Furthermore, the tourists who are going there to enjoy the
destination end up with facing problems regarding transport. In addition to this, every
person faces difficulty in finding new places to visit while they should have enough
sources to know everything in advance (Stojanovic and Curras-Perez, 2018). Government
of Nepal should take care of being more advance in terms of its communication and
transport facility so that it can attract more people to visit the nation. Lack of quality hotels and infrastructure: There are various hotels in the entire country
which avails facilities to local as well as outsiders for staying. These hotels are not proper
and maintained well and are very unhygienic where it is difficult for people to stay. This
results in the making bad impact and attractiveness of the country on the visitors. Further
the lack of infrastructure such as roads and the maintenance of proper communication
create a bad impact on people and it affects the tourism industry of the country.
Issues in Sydney, Australia
 Lack of services and facilities:All the factors are connected with services which should
always be proper to give a sense of satisfaction to people. The lack of services affects the
intensity of manpower, growth in infrastructure and also the employment of people by
use of technology in improving the services and facilities.
 Terrorism: When a nation has high terrorism attacks then it hinders tourism in that area
or region. Like IRAN is having low popularity among the tourist from around the world
as it is having higher rate to terrorist attacks. (Karl, 2018).
Due to less growth in its economic sector, investment in its tourism industry is less which
results in less development of tourism in the country. Tourism is the backbone of any nation for
increasing employment and revenue of the country. Thus, the involvement of the government in
the sector is lacking either in the development of infrastructure, manpower development,
conservation of the tourist destinations and the availability of services and facilities.
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4.2 Potential for responsible tourism to enhance the host community at worldwide tourist
destinations
Responsible tourism shows a way for the involvement and engagement of the tourists. It
includes majorly every person around which is tourists, business, local and other stakeholders
such as government. Stakeholders plays a major role in development of tourism sector in the
nation. They can invest more towards this industry and help it to grow more which overall has
resulted in national development. There are majorly three impacts of planning and development
of tourism. It covers economic and social factors to a great extent. Long term growth is entirely
dependent on responsible tourism which has enhanced the national development. They should be
careful for the sustainable development and changing economic condition of the nation
(Stojanovic, Andreu and Curras-Perez, 2018).
Responsible tourism involves responsibility towards society, commitment towards
environmental aspects and the integration of the local people in the activities for tourist
development. Thus, it can be said that responsible tourist development meets the need of the
tourists as well as the host region and at the same time protecting and enhancing the
opportunities in the future. It leads to efficient management of the all the resources to fulfill the
needs of the tourist in all respects and maintaining the cultural integrity, biological diversity and
environmental balance.
Entire responsible tourism will benefit Nepal and Australia by following ways:
 Earning economic benefit for the residential people of the nation and also improve the
services and facilities given to people who come to enjoy their vacations.
 Higher impact can be made towards the conservation of tourist destinations and the
places of attribute so that sustainability of the nation can be raised.
 This all results in giving a sense of satisfaction to visitors.
The above benefits and need of responsible tourism has shown that it needs to have
higher investments and execution of plans can be possible only by responsible tourism.
Thus, government of the nation plays a very important role in growth and development of
this sector.
 Improving security
 Promoting tourism among the local communities and people.
Methods used by Nepal to overcome the issues
1. Lack of transportation and communication – In order to improve transportation channels
in the country Nepal developed a five year plan that helped it to achieve significant
outcomes. The country established 44 airports in 75 districts including domestic airports
in remote areas which are linked with the international airport in Kathmandu. Nepal also
adopted an open sky policy allowing private airlines for operating domestic and
international services.
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