Travel Geography Toolkit

This travel geography toolkit from Desklib provides information on tourist arrivals, key airports, rankings, safety, accessibility, and political stability in France and Thailand. It includes data from UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2019 and the WEF Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019.

Travel Geography Toolkit
1) Part A: With reference to UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2019, choose two countries from the
regions with the strongest growth in terms of tourist arrivals. Data accessible from - https://www.e-
unwto.org/doi/pdf/10.18111/9789284421152 (5%).
Country 1 Global Region Country 2 Global Region
France
Europe Thailand Asia and Pacific
Part B: Using the same data source as above, complete the following table for each chosen country:
International tourist arrivals
(2018)
International tourist receipts
(2018)
France 89.4 million tourists 73,125 million US dollars
Thailand 38.28 million tourist 65,242 million US dollars
2) Within the selected countries, identify key airports, the capital city and neighbouring countries
(5%):
Map of country 1
Figure: Map of France with Airports with its capital and neighbouring countries
Map of country 2
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Figure: Map of Thailand with Airports, capital and neighbouring countries
3) Based on data from the WEF Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019, compare the
rankings for the following pillars as identified in the report (available from
-https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-travel-tourism-competitiveness-report-2019):
France
2017
(SCORE/RANK)
2019
(SCORE/RANK)
2017
(SCORE/RANK)
2019
(SCORE/RANK)
Overall ranking 5.32/2 5.4/2 4.38/34 4.5/31
Prioritisation of
travel and
tourism
5.14 5.1 5.05 5.2
Environmental
sustainability
4.83 5.3 3.57 3.6
Natural
resources
4.77 4.9 4.95 4.8
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Comment on the country’s score/rank for the following (300 words) (20%):
France Thailand
Prioritisation
of travel and
tourism
Prioritisation of travel and tourism
industry is important for every
country(Feng, 2017) . After
comparing results of 2017 and 2019
of score of WEF Travel & Tourism
Competitiveness Report 2019, it is
concluded that there is not a vast
change in priority of government of
France to this sector. It changes from
5.14 to 5.1 which shows a minor
change only.
Score of Prioritisation of travel and
tourism industry according to WEF
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness
Report 2019 states that the Government
of Thailand increase prioritising tour and
travel in the Country and develop more
policies to attract tourism in the country.
Environmental
sustainability
According to the above figures of
Environmental sustainability it is
observed that in comparison to 2017
the score of environmental
sustainability has increased from
4.83 to 5.3 in 2019 of France which
shows good results in the country.
According to the above figures of
Environmental sustainability it is
observed that in comparison to 2017 the
score of environmental sustainability
has increased from 3.57 to 3.6 which is
just negligible increment in Thailand. It
shows that environmental sustainability
neither increase or decrease in
Thailand(Huang, Gallegos, and
Lerman, 2017).
Natural
resources
The increment of natural resources is
just a little. In the score it is of just
0.1 or 0.2. But it shows conservation
of natural resources in France on
Regular basis.
4.954.8There is decrease in natural
resources according to the score of 2017
and 2019. although the difference is not
that much but it shows depletion of
natural resources in Thailand which
should be preserved. It shows that
government of Thailand should
concentrate on formulation of policies
for conservation of natural resources in
Thailand.
4) Using the current FCO advice (available from https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice),
comment on the safety of travelling to the destinations (300 words) (20%):
FCO advice – France
It is advised by government to not to travel
until or unless it is Legally permitted reason for
the same (Hui, and Walker, 2018). It is illegal
FCO advice – Thailand
It is restricted to all travellers entering Thailand
to quarantine them at destination in Thai
decided by government at own expenses of the
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to travel for leisure and holiday purposes. Hen
travelling from UK to France it is essential to
have a negative COVID-19 report which is
negative and conducted before 3 days of
departure. It is advices to wear face masks in
enclosed public spaces in case of non-following
these regulation of face mask there will be fine
fixed to be imposed. In order to contact for any
symptom or emergency service it is advised to
call on 112.
traveller. There are several advices and
measures issued by Thai Government to follow
in order to stop spread of the new disease in
Thailand such as compulsion of wearing mask, a
compulsory App to be downloaded and many
more. It is also advisable to not enter in high
risk areas, not to hoard essential goods, not to
attend public gatherings and propagate wrong
information in public. In order to contact for
COVID19 related symptoms it is advice to call
on 1422.
Which country is the safest based on current FCO advice? (Briefly justify your response)
Although no country is safe to travel at this pandemic situation and everyone is facing a large
number of cases of COVID-19 (Kellerman, 2018). According to the recent report of COVID-9
cases in both the countries it is advised that France is more safe than Thailand as it has less
number of Cases in France.
Choose a neighbouring country of each destination and examine the FCO advice.
Is it considered a “good” or “bad” neighbour?
What are the implications of this?
The neighbouring country of France which is Switzerland is a beautiful Country which attracts
lots of Tourist towards it. Although it is safe to travel Switzerland at this time but Due to covid
19 it has seen that it has lots of cases in the country which restrictes entry at Switzerland for
travelling purpose. They are good neighbours. In Case of Thailand its neighbouring country
Myanmar, Burma (Margulies, and Karanth, 2018) . It is a small nation which has less cases as
compare to Thailand. There are several Guidelines of FCO for the purpose of prevention of
COVID19 like wearing of mask proper sanitisation and many more. Thailand and Myanmar has
good relations with each other.
5) Examine whether your countries have recently experienced either environmental/natural
disasters or extreme weather which have impacted air transport activity (200 words)(10%)
France
France have not experienced either natural
Thailand
Thailand has a high risk of several disasters
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disaster or extreme weather conditions. There
are no such conditions which have been
impacted the air transport activity in France.
But the Situation of Pandemic of COVID-19
affects the travel and tourism in France and
affects international flights of France. It became
illegal to travel for holidays and leisure in
France as it can increase spread of deadly virus.
such as flood, explosion, major accidents and
Typhoon which results in postponement of air
transport in the country. But recently the
country has not faced any of these. But the
Pandemic due to COVID19 virus the company
has cancelled all the international flights which
affects the air transport Activity of France.
6) Investigate the accessibility and connectivity of the destinations and determine key markets for
each country (200 words)(10%)
Consider key international airports and flights between chosen countries and their source markets.
Also, look at any visa requirements for travel to the chosen countries from their source markets.
France
There are several flights which travel between
France and Thailand. Like a flight is from Paris
to Bangkok, one from Paris to Phuket and many
more(Marsden, 2018). It is easily accessible
for People of France to visit to Thailand. Hence
it is seen that France has good connectivity with
Thailand. The biggest international Airport of
France is Charlkes De Gaulle.The major key
market in France are Telecommunication,
electronics, auto-mobiles, aerospace and many
more.
Thailand
The key international airports of Thailand are
Suvarnabhumi Airport, Don Mueang
International Airport, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Hat
Yai International Airport. They have various
flight to connect thailand to France and it is
easily accessible to people of Thailand. The
major key markets of Thailand are machinery
including Computers, electric equipment and
many more.
7) Consider the political stability within both countries (300 words) (20%)
Important to look at relations with neighbouring states and how this might affect accessibility.
France
Political stability is unchanged from 2011. Due
to which increase the rate of unemployment In
France (Meadows, 2020) . The president of
France take several steps for the same to bring
political stability in the country. As France is a
power nation which has friendly relations with
their neighbouring countries.
Thailand
Thailand has goo politically stability which is
shown in Thai economy which is moderately
free . The freedom Score of Thailand is 69.4.
Thailand is a friendly nation and maintain good
relations with its neighbouring nations.
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Conclusion: Explain which of the chosen countries is the most competitive (200 words) (10%)
As per the above discussion it is concluded that France is the most competitive company in travel
and tourism industry as it comes at second position in overall score of WEF Travel & Tourism
Competitiveness Report 2019(Poole, and Trandafoiu, 2018). according to this report it has
more tourist and tourist revenue in compare to Thailand. It is also observed that they increase the
tourism engagement in the country from 2017 to 2019. France has increase score in every pillar
discussed below. It is also noted that there is low risk and high safety in France to travel to that
country.
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