Compare the appeal of current leading and developing tourist destinations

This presentation explores the appeal of current leading and developing tourist destinations. It compares the characteristics that affect their appeal, such as economic stability, physical infrastructure, social factors, and political support. The presentation also discusses the importance of tourist sites and the impact of visitor numbers on a destination's appeal.

Tourist Destinations
(Task 3)

Contents
Introduction
Compare the appeal of current leading and developing tourist
destination
Characteristics of a tourist destination affect its appeal
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Tourism is one of the major supportive element for the
growth and development of economy. It includes
traveling or visiting some new place for recreation,
profession or any other casual reason.

Compare the appeal of current leading and
developing tourist destination
Virgin Holidays has to carefully figure out the various kinds
of appeals that are associated with leading and developing
tourist destination while designing a package for their
users.

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Appeal Leading Destination (United Kingdom) Developing Destination
( Russia)
Popularit
y
The first and the foremost factor behind the
popularity of any tourist destination is its
tourist sites. United Kingdom is having
many popular and attractive tourist sites
that comes under UNESCO World’s
Heritage Sites including the cultural sites of
Maritime Greenwich, Tower of London
landscape etc.
Developing destination
constitutes to those places that
are recently gaining popularity
and are into people's trend to
visit these place. Russia is one
such tourist destination that
lack in popularity as compa

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Change
in
number
visitor
The key feature of leading destination is
that they have fixed visit by tourists which
act as an advantage for their economy as
it leads to fix income generation period in
that particular seasons or months.. Thus,
both in winters and summers UK
experience a huge foot fall making them
leading destinations both the times.
In case of developing tourist
destination, appeal and nature of
a country serves as a major
motivating factor for tourist to
visit that place. It includes
weather, occurrence of some
particular festival or vent etc.
that might capture the attention
of people to visit that place. In
case of Russia at the time of
low moderate season, it
experience a large decline in its
tourism as nobody wants to visit
the nation at that point of time.

Characteristics of a tourist destination affect
its appeal
Economic: The UK
economy is considered to
be one of the most stable
economies which serves
as an advantage for the
nation as they can easily
invest.

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Physical: Russia is preferable tourist destination
for most of the visitors due to its transportation
facilities and network. However, this nation
lacks in its infrastructure which make it less
attractive for people to visit it.

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Social factors: Russia is considered as a developing nation;
therefore, it is required for them to use the latest methods
and improve living standard of people. This aids to
reduce poverty line of country which will increase
economy of Russia.

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Political: In United Kingdom, industry of tourist is
considered as a source which helps to provide stability to
politics. Government needs to conduct various activities
which will attract attention of numerous individuals
towards them.

Conclusion
Tourism sector is rapidly moving in a forward direction
with the support of famous travelling destinations. There
are various factors which appeal people to visit different
places. With the span of time, developing countries like
Russia are also getting opportunity of being famous
tourist destinations as these nations are unexplored so
travellers like to visit these locations.

References
Chen, J.S. and Gursoy, D., 2001. An investigation of
tourists’ destination loyalty and preferences.
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality
Management, 13(2), pp.79-85.
Eymann, A. and Ronning, G., 1997. Microeconometric
models of tourists' destination choice. Regional Science
and Urban Economics, 27(6), pp.735-761

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