Travel Geography Toolkit

This travel geography toolkit explores the global region with the strongest growth in terms of tourist numbers and income generated by tourists. It compares and contrasts two tourism destinations within the region, analyzes their geographical attractiveness and accessibility, and evaluates their key tourism products and typology of tourists. It also assesses the openness of the countries to tourism, their political stability, and risks. Finally, it determines the more successful destination over a 5-year period.

Travel Geography Toolkit
1) With reference to UNWTO Tourism Highlights 2018 and 2019, identify the global region with the
strongest growth in terms of tourist numbers and income generated by tourists. (5%)
Region: Europe 2017-2018 2018-2019
Number of
Arrivals
673 million
Income
generated by
tourists:
517 USD billion
Arrivals:
710 million
Income
generated by
tourists:
566 USD
billion
2)Within the identified region choose any 2 tourism destinations (provide the latest tourists arrival
information,and income generated by tourists).Reference your findings (5%)
Destination 1. France
Destination 2. Spain
Number of Tourist arrivals:
86 million
81.8 million
Income generated by tourists
198.3 billion euro
160.2 billion euro
3) Looking at the TTI competitive index how do the two destinations rank? What are their key
strengths?(5%)
Destination 1 France; Rank #1
Key strengths:
1. history
2. art
3. culture
Destination2: Spain; Rank #2
Key strengths:
1. great food
2. lively nightlife
3. art and architecture
With reference to your chosen countries conduct the following comparative analysis.
Compare and contrast the 2 chosen destinations to examine:
A) Their geographical attractiveness(250 words) (10%)
What can the destinations offer in terms of tourism? Look at the landscape and the
topography of the destinations. Reference your findings
Destination 1 France
The country is considered to be the world’s
most visited country. The country France is
more than wine, museums and Eifel Tower.
Thus, from the last statistics it has been
observed that almost 86 million travellers
had travelled to France and it has been
expected that this number will increase by
Destination 2 Spain
Europe’s second most visited country is
Spain. The country is located at Iberian
Peninsula. In 2017, the number of travellers
visited to the country was 81.8 million,
which is almost 5 million more than last
year. The total number of UNESCO world
heritage site in Spain is 47. the world
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two fold in the coming year (Rudahl and
Goldin, 2017).
famous Spain’s football team has
entertained thousands of travellers to
travel to this location.
What would you say the key tourism products are? (e.g Marine tourism, adventure
tourism etc.)
Destination 1 France
Moreover, the country consists of
enormous palaces, cathedral and castles
such as Notre-Dame Cathedral and Castle
of Chambord and palace of Versailles as the
most popular ones. As the place France
consists of huge number of outdoor
markets, beautiful beaches, snowy
mountains, coastal villages as well as
medieval villages which had made France
as the must visit place in the list of every
traveller (Longman and et.al, 2015).
Destination 2 Spain
Moreover, there is large number of festivals
celebrated in the country, along with it the
country comprises of several beaches on
the Mediterranean & on Atlantic. Therefore,
the coastal area of Spain is somewhat like
tropical island. Additionally, travellers
travelling to this place like to have variety of
food served here i.e. paella, Pisto, Tortilla
Espanola and several other traditional foods
(Dolan, 2019).
Include a map of the key tourism destinations
(Include possible neighbouring countries)
The possible neighbouring countries of France are Spain, Italy, Germany, Luxembourg and
Belgium
The neighbouring countries of Spain are France, Portugal, Morocco, Andorra and Gibraltar.
B) Investigate the accessibility and connectivity of the destinations. Reference your findings
(250 words)(10%)
Looking at key international airports and flights for both destinations and cruises (if
applicable), Can you identify some key markets? (in terms of nationalities)Reference your
findings
Destination 1 France
For travelling to France one can travel
through car, or through airways. While
travelling through car one could turn up
at the ferry ports for reaching next
crossing. Therefore, while travelling
through air, when reaching France from
UK and Europe an individual can choose
from several regional airports. Or
reaching France from north America
could be done by using directs flight of
Air France. Since, the general point of
arriving in France is the airport Paris
Charles de Gaulle (CDG). And while
Destination 2 Spain
While coming from out of the country an
individual could travel through air, train, road
or through sea. As travelling by airways is
considered to be the best for Spain. As the fligts
for travelling to Spain are cheap as well as they
are time savers too. The Malaga International
Airport, Barcelona International Airport or the
Madrid International Airport are the main
International Airports of Spain. Thus, these
several airports are serviced by several airlines
which connect to the country from all over the
world.
Yet another option for travelling to Spain is
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travelling from US or Asia an individual
could reach at the airport Delta from
JFK. Additionally, for travellers from NE
or Canada, could have direct flights
from Toulouse, Nantes, Marseille and
etc. Lastly, from Australia to France the
individual could take several long- haul
flights (Safra de Campos and.et.al,
2017).
through seaways. The various cities of the
country are situated at the coastal level of its
geographical boundaries. Moreover, the
country is travel network through sea ways
where ferry services are connecting Morocco
and Tangiers with Gibraltar. Perhaps, even
Spain is connected to England via sea routes
(Dehlendorf, Gavin and Moskosky, 2017).
C) Overall what can the destinations offer and what typology of tourist would they offer it
to? (For example adventure tourism to millennial tourists) Reference your findings(300
words) (20%)
Destination 1 France
The country France offer diverse natural
environment along with so many historic
heritages in Europe. The several destinations
of tourist for this place includes attractions
which illustrates human race history,
Moreover, the country is comprises of
vestiges of European Civilisations form the
provinces of Roman reigns. The resolute
modernity of TGV, the nineteenth century
Eiffel Tower as well as the splendours of
Versailles are the several points of
attractions of France (Chen and et.al, 2017).
Destination 2 Spain
The country Spain is comprises of
effervescent party atmosphere, with rich
cultures, tourist friendly cities as well as
iconic monuments. Thus, this had made
Spain as one of the most popular destination
for tourists in Europe. The coastal areas of
Spain tend to enjoy 300 sunshine days in
Europe. Some of its places are popular
among the several chunks of the tourists
which visit the place to enjoy the early
winter sun. Moreover, the popular cities of
Spain i.e. Barcelona and Madrid are easily
connected with the other places of Europe.
Are the current tourism trends met in the present offer?(For example wellness tourism)
Destination 1 France
Thus, in order to sustain as the top most
place of destination for travellers all over
the world the country has comparatively
more number of campsites as well as
hotels than any other country of Europe,
probably greater number of holiday
cottages and gates. The facility that
attracts the travellers towards the city is
the fine system of roadways as well as the
network of railway which connects all
major cities and towns of the country.
Destination 2 Spain
Travelling to Spain is comparatively cheaper
than that of travelling to Italy and France.
Moreover, the variety of mouth watering
cousins offered in Spain as well as their range
in flours made the country as the one among
the top popular companies of the World.
Splashing tomatoes on the face of the
stranger or running with the bulls, along with
the museums which has the collections of
contemporary art has made the current
tourism trends to meet the present offers
(Dolan, 2019).
D) How open are the two countries to tourism?Reference your findings (200 words) (10%)
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How easy or difficult is to get a visa to travel?
How long does it take to get a visa?
Are there any countries that are more facilitated? Reference your findings
Destination 1 France
EU citizenship holders with the national
identity card can any time travel to
France. While other travellers must
have passport. Moreover, travellers
from non European countries had to
posse’s visa which depends upon their
length of stay. Moreover, for short trips
visa is not required of the several of the
counties travellers travelling to France.
Generally, it took 2 to 15 days for the
processing of visa when it is sent as an
application to Embassy of France.
Additionally, there are several factors
which affects the processing time for
visa of France. Yes, it is allowed to
travel to the county France for 90 days
without visa for countries which are
member of Schengen area (Dehlendorf,
Gavin and Moskosky, 2017).
Destination 2 Spain
There are different types of visas are offered by
Spain depending upon the type of travel of the
traveller. The individual has to apply for
different Schengen visa depending upon its
plan to visit the country either for permanently
residing or for purpose of work or for the study
purpose. Thus, it takes generally takes 10 days
for the processing of approval of visa after
sending the application of visa to the Embassy
of Spain. There are different criteria for which
an individual applies for the visa of Spain i.e.
either for employment, as a student, after
retirement, or as a tourist or for purpose of
business, or for medical purpose. Moreover,
sometimes individuals tend to acquire the visa
of Spain for the purpose of attraction towards
country’s culture, sports or religious purpose.
Thus, some of the countries being the member
of Schengen area, did not need to have visa for
travelling to Spain (Longman and et.al, 2015).
E) Looking at the political context. (300 words) (20%)
How stable are the countriesin terms of political stability? Reference your findings
Destination 1 France
The political stability of France was such
that the government of Forth Republic
had even did not survived for more
than six months, but majority of its
officials has continued their policy.
Thus, in the political context the
country has seen even if the new
government is formed, fifty percent of
the government officials or ministers
had remained in their job, around 25
percentages of individuals changed
their job but stayed in the office and
only and only the new assignees were
25 percent. The various factors in
political context of France are social
unrest in France i.e. short term
Destination 2 Spain
The county Spain had new leader, but most of
the analyst had believed that it will not having
power until his mandate. As in the last week
only the new prime minister was assigned to
the country. Thus, the leader of Socialist party
Perdo-Sanchez was assigned as the prime
minister. The country posses the lack of the
parliamentary majority which is the main
stumbling block of the country. Thus, due to
regional proportional system of elections in
Spain it has become very much difficult for
translating popularized vote polling into
distributions of seat. Therefore, in the last
political elections of Spain the party was having
effective agenda of policies which includes
reforming which has benefitted growth
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economic impact. Moreover, agenda of
reformists as well as political noise
(Dolan, 2019).
potentials of Spain ().
Can you identify any key risks? (FCO)
Destination 1 France
The reformist agenda tends to
showcase the resilience, which is in
relation to labour market,. Thus, this
had led to rate of unemployment
around 18 percent among low skilled
workers.
Destination 2 Spain
Due to political changes in the country, the
country’s stock has been sharply fallen over the
past two weeks, thus, the in order to overcome
such issues main Spanish index has working
over losses for last 48 hours
Conclusion:
Which destination is more successfulover a 5 year period in terms of tourism offer and why?Justify
your response (300 words) (15%)
The destination which will be most lovable as well as being successful in doing business
will be same as the past decade i.e. France. As the country is situated at the heart of the
western European region. The county has adjoining boundaries with several of the nearby
tourist destinations i.e. Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and Italy. Moreover, the country
France is having the busiest airport Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. Along with several of
airports which are having international connections.
As the country the France has so many historic heritage building as well as includes
diverse natural environment from any other country of Europe. As the most popular
destinations the county is having is most popular Eiffel tower, resolute modernity of TGV,
medieval cathedrals and castles, Roman remains of province, vestiges of European
civilization as well as prehistoric megaliths of Carnac. Thus, for being holding the status of
leading tourist destination, the country France possesses the necessary tourism
infrastructures (Dehlendorf, Gavin and Moskosky, 2017).
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