The Travel and Tourism Sector: Assignment
13 Pages3987 Words458 Views
Added on 2020-10-22
The Travel and Tourism Sector: Assignment
Added on 2020-10-22
ShareRelated Documents
Travel and tourism 1
Table of ContentsIntroduction........................................................................................................................3Task 1................................................................................................................................3Task 2................................................................................................................................5Task 3................................................................................................................................7Task 4................................................................................................................................8Conclusion.......................................................................................................................10References.......................................................................................................................112
IntroductionThailand is one of the leading travel destinations just like the UK around theworld. Thailand is also considered to be a land of smiles. There is enormous supportfrom government to provide an excellent tourism experience including reasonabletransportation, accommodation, and communication and also with modern technologies.There has been a dramatic change in the tourism industry in Thailand which has lead towide growth in the international tourist travels. The UK has been considered to be oneof the influential countries for the purpose of tourism. UK comes at 7th place amongstthe biggest attraction for tourist. When it comes to UK and Thailand the first city which is most preferable fortourist in both the countries are London and Bangkok. This assignment aims toinvestigate the aspects of tourist such as features, characteristics, visitor profile, culture,physical and economic characteristics and issues related to sustainability in the Londonand Bangkok which is the most visited and attracted place for tourist. Task 1A.Bangkok is considered to be one of the popular tourist destinations in South Asia.People usually have lifetime travel experience in Bangkok. Bangkok is famous forfantastic food and shopping market looking like a maze. Tourist in Bangkok usuallystays for more than 106 million nights and spent around $16.2 billion in 2017. Tourismhas been a fastest growing industry in UK and among all cities, London hit the recordsof visitor around 31.5 million internationally which was found to be increased to 20% infive years ago. There are many impressive monuments, vibrant culture with aperformance theatrically. Approximately 26 million visitors visit London in every year.The tourism from London generates revenue which comprises 10% of the gross valueadded income. Tourists in London spend approximately £15 million per year. Theaverage spending is £563 per person who is staying for at least 7 days (Smith, 2015).The visitors have been found to be more inbound than outbound in the last five years.3
The best places in London to visit our Tower of London, ZSL London, ColchesterZoo and houses of Parliament. The number of visitors in these places in the year 2016and 2016 are here presented below:-Figure 1: Number of visitorsSource: (Independent, 2017)The most visited and attraction places in Bangkok are WatTraimit, Dusit Palace,Lumphini Park, Chatuchak weekend market, khao san road, central world and Watarun.The total number of visitors has been projected to be more than 15.90 million in the year2017. The revenue generated from tourism in Thailand was 12.53 billion baht andBangkok comprises of more than 5 billion (Independent, 2017). B.In future Bangkok is expected to have more than 30 million international travelswhich can even beat London as London is expected to have 28 million visitors. In theyear 2016 and 2017 London topped in getting high visitors from that of Bangkok.Bangkok is one of most metropolitan cities in Asia having magnificent temples andpalaces, vivacious night, wide-ranging canals and brilliant platform for shopping. In4
End of preview
Want to access all the pages? Upload your documents or become a member.
Related Documents
Tourism in Global Contextlg...
|6
|1103
|150
Tourism Overview in Thailand PDFlg...
|4
|862
|82
Techniques and Resources to Analyse Current Trends in UK's Travel and Tourism Sectorlg...
|2
|530
|95
Travel and Tourism in UK - Assignmentlg...
|14
|4300
|150
Tourism Destination: Analysis, Trends, and Characteristicslg...
|13
|3099
|302
Contribution of Tourism towards UK Economylg...
|9
|2108
|97