Visitor Attraction Management: Strategies for Sustainable Tourism

VISITOR ATTRACTION MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Discuss the overlap of visitor attractions in relation to particular types of attraction...............4
The overlap of visitor attractions in relation to particular types of attraction:................................4
1.2 Analyze the importance of different visitor attractions.............................................................5
Task 2:.............................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Evaluate the needs and motivations of different visitor types...................................................7
2.2 Evaluate impacts of tourism on visitor attractions in the United Kingdom..............................8
2.3 Analyze the effect of different theories of tourist motivation on the management of visitor
attractions.......................................................................................................................................11
Task 3:...........................................................................................................................................14
3.1 Discuss the processes and the potential issues involved in the development of visitor
attractions.......................................................................................................................................14
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................18
4.1 Analyze different visitor management strategies....................................................................18
4.2 Evaluate management techniques in relation to sustainability................................................19
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................20
Reference list.................................................................................................................................21
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Introduction:
Visitor’s attraction management is all about the planning and management process by which any
place of tourists’ attraction will be managed by government or the authority. In This assignment
types of tourists attraction, overlapping and its importance on tourism, different motive and need
behind tourists group, affect of tourism, tourist motivation theories will be discussed. The stages
of development, the issues faced while development will be discussed as well. Lastly, visitors’
management strategies and ways to achieving sustainable management in tourism will be
discussed. In the last chapter of the assignment, strategies are described to reach the goal of
sustainability.
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Task 1
1.1 Discuss the overlap of visitor
attractions in relation to particular types
of attraction.
Scope of visitors’ attraction:
A tourist attraction is all about place of
interest where tourists visit, because of its
natural beauty, building beauty, passing
leisure time and so on. The objective of this
visitor’s attraction management is to gain
more attraction of tourists and make those as
famous as it can be (Mason, 2015). With this
entire process of visitor’s attraction,
economic growth as well as social cultural
growth will be there (Mowforth and Munt.,
2015)
The overlap of visitor attractions in
relation to particular types of attraction:
In UK, thousands of visitors’ attractions are
there which can be classified in different
ways.
Natural attractions are those, which are
solely built by nature and there is no such
contributions from man while its creation.
Waterfalls, forests, mountains are some
examples of natural attractions. In UK,
many natural attractions are there such as
Pembroke shire Coast, Lake Windermere
and many more (Lake et.al., 2015). The
government always put some steps to
preserve these sites to attract tourists.
Some attractions have a purpose behind its
building. Such are called purposely build
attraction. Thorpe Park, London Eye, Eden
Project are the ones which were build to
attract tourists for recreational purpose
(Mason, 2015). Some places are there which
gain purpose for its architecture or for
design like the York minister church in UK.
Some of the other purpose built attraction of
UK, which later becomes tourists spot are
Windsor Castle, York Minster, Goon hilly
Downs, the British Museum, the National
Maritime Museum, Greenwich Park and so
on.
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Some festivals or occasions are also in UK
to attract tourists like Glastonbury, Olympic
Games, and Eurovision Song Contest etc.
These are going on with the purpose of
attracting tourists on a large number.
Heritage attractions are those, which are
already, build years ago. Now those
heritages have become the centre of
attraction for the city, as tourists tend to visit
those places on a huge number. These
heritage sites provide the details description
of past culture, architecture and surprise
tourists with ancient details. The British
Museum, the National Maritime Museum
are such places where people can see ancient
things of hundreds of years ago. These sites
are the symbol of pride for any country.
These attractions are very much important
for any country. In UK, London is a big city
where tourists can come in a large number.
Millions of people come here to witness the
rich culture of this city, which is working as
a boost for UK economy too (Donald and
Gammack, 2016). Tower Bridge, Parliament
house are some of the places, which people
tent to visit while touring London.
The overlapping of visitors attraction are
those places, which were built before, but
now government has taken initiatives to
preserve those heritages and making them
highly protected places. In UK, the British
Museum is a good example of this
overlapping. It was built in 1972 (Wohl,
2017). It consists of many ancient
collections of past ages. Now the
government to keep the future in mind is
preserving it.
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1.2 Analyze the importance of different
visitor attractions.
Any country will definitely aim to attract
tourists in their country. With the help of
tourism, any country can enhance their
economic, social background. UK is very
famous for its cultural heritage. Visitbritain
is a British tourist authority under British
government, which works in promoting the
UK tourism on a broader scale. The impact
of visitors’ attraction is very important for
countries.
With the help of tourism, Revitalizing of
area is the one thing any country eye for
(Lowenthal, 2015). For a developing
country, it works as a boost for their
economy. As there are some places in every
country which needed a revitalization.
Tourism always helps in this. Attracting
many investors to come and to establish
business is another great positive impact of
tourism (Leigh and Blakely, 2016). If a
place become developed and become centre
of attraction for tourists, then group of
business people will be interested to come
and enhance those places by establishing
new business. A newly developed or
developed place in terms of tourism can help
in the overall contribution of that country
too. for example, millions of people come to
visit UK every year, which is working as a
great boost for UK economy. When a place
is being developed and start to gain
attraction of tourists, there will be great
chance for fresh employment as well. Small
shops, tourist guides, food stores all will be
in demand.
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