Report on Tourist And Travel Destination

Tourist Destination

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
1(a). Major tourist destinations from UK and Hong Kong and major income generators.....4
1(b). Prediction of future trends of tourist destinations in identification of growth and
declining in market.................................................................................................................6
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TASK 2............................................................................................................................................9
2(a). Analysis of cultural, social and physical features of two developed tourist destinations
and features of appeal for different types of visitors..............................................................9
(b) key characteristics of such four destinations and impact of these characteristics on appeal
of different visitors...............................................................................................................10
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13
(a) Impact of Political factors upon the number of visitors and income generation capacity 13
(b) Contribution of responsible tourism regarding positively hosting their communities.. .14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
A destination can be called any place which is build man made and through any natural
process having the power to attract large number of individuals. It can be of any resort, town,
region within the country or any whole nation. Travel and tourism is considered as most
important factor which helps in development of country. This will be considered as one of the
important source of income which contributes in development of economy. Tourist destinations
are such famous man made and natural places which attract large number of individuals towards
their beauty. Tourism activities are conduct on two levels which are domestic and global. It also
pays an important role in development of society and infrastructure. In attraction of individuals
and tourist, Government develop large number of facilities like transportation, communication,
hotels etc. Large number of employment opportunities are also initiated with the increase in
tourism sector which provides opportunities to individuals of country to generate income and
improve their living standard (Ashton, 2014). It brings high flow of cash in an economy through
foreign investments, tax in come etc. The major sources which contributes in income generation
for such tourist destinations are improvement in income level of individuals, advancement in
Aircraft technologies, large availability of transportation facilities, increase in leisure time,
education, involvement of large number of tour operators and providence of cost efficient
holiday packages. Different tourist destinations have their own different characteristics. Such
characteristics are of main four types. Firstly, Major cities which attract the tourist due to having
good political, cultural, historical and social centres. Developed traditional centres which are
having town or villages as their core destinations. Touring centres which are grown on small
locations and providing large number of secondary activities. Purpose built resorts which are
mainly designed for the purpose of attraction of the large number of tourists. Such resorts having
all the facilities which are located near to a city. Generally destinations are categorised into three
groups. First, seaside destinations includes all the places and resorts which are established near
beaches. Second, Rural destinations includes mountains, lakes, farms, village holidays, river,
wildlife parks etc. Lastly, urban destinations includes major and big cities. A success of any
tourist destination depends upon number of tourist which are going to visit such place in a year.
The major three factors which helps in increasing the number of tourists are facilities, attraction
spots and accessibility (Beritelli, Strobl and Peters, 2013). UK and Hong Kong are two major
tourist destinations where large number of people visit to saw their natural and man made

destinations. But many challenges are also faced in development of such destinations like lack
of utilities, poor transport etc.
In the present report explain about, number of visitors increase or decrease in UK and
Hong Kong tourist destinations in last five years and major sources of income, future trends of
tourist destinations regarding identification of growing and declining in market. Also, cultural,
social and physical features of two developed tourist destinations, key features of two tourist
destinations and their impact on attraction of different types of visitor.
TASK 1
1(a). Major tourist destinations from UK and Hong Kong and major income generators
Disney land is one of the famous destination of Hong Kong which is most liked by
children's. It is conceived that large number of tourists which are visit to Hong Kong are
families. On other hand, British Museum is one of the man made tourist destination which
attracts the large number of individuals (Chen, Chen, and Lee, 2011). Mostly, persons which
are come to UK are Business visitors as the industrial activities are large in number in
comparison to Hong Kong. There are large number of factors which are working s source of
income generator for both the tourist destination countries. Similarly, there are many motivators
are present which influence the behaviour of tourists attraction towards such famous
destinations. From last 5 years data of visitors in London, observed that tourist industry is
growing with the rate of 12%.
Major income generators
In today's world, there are many factors are generate or improved which helps in
development of tourism and their income generation power. Such sources are mentioned below:
 Increases in Disposable income: As large number of entrepreneurial activities are
provide by organisation which helps in generation of employment opportunities. This
provides opportunity regarding earn more income to make their lives more better. This
contributes to spend more on their holidays to explore new destinations.
 Improvement in Aircraft technologies: Aircraft industries are developed as per time
changes. This includes about increase in number of flights, trips and capacity which helps
to carry large number of persons on one time. It is also now economical to travel through
flights which increases number of tourists (Crouch, 2011).