Tourism Dynamics: Comparing Established and Emerging Destinations

This essay provides a comparative analysis of the appeals of present and evolving tourist destinations, using London and Costa Rica as examples. It examines the unique biodiversity, landscape, and transportation infrastructure of each location. The essay also considers the impact of crime rates and political stability on tourism. Furthermore, it discusses characteristics such as sales promotion, publicity, product life cycle management, economic factors, and over-commercialization that affect the appeal of tourist destinations. The analysis concludes with a discussion of how these factors influence tourist turnout and the overall sustainability of the tourism industry. Desklib offers additional resources for students studying tourism and related fields.

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Content
• Introduction
• Comparing appeals of present and evolving tourist destinations.
• Characteristics of tourist destinations that effects its appeal.
• References
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Introduction
In the present society life style of the people is changing and they
are opting for spending their holidays at various tourist
destinations. There are some established tourist destinations such
as France and UK. These developed destinations attracts large
number of customers towards it since they have high quality
infrastructural facility as well as capacity to handle more number
of people. They have many characteristics that appeals travellers.
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Comparing appeals of present and evolving
tourist destinations.
There are various appeals that is generated by both kind of tourist
spots developed as well as those who are currently developing.
These appeals results in attracting consumers towards it. So as to
make this comparison example of London and Costa Rica has been
taken as London is a developed tourist spot and Costa Rica is
developing destination. These both destinations have large amount
of resources so as to attract large number of customers towards it.
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While comparing the destinations it can be underlined that both
London and Costa Rica are having uniqueness in terms of
biodiversity as well as landscape. Costa Rica is the lovable
place for the tourists wanting to visit exotic regions having
beautiful beaches along with great variety of fauna and flora.
On the other hand UK is having British Isles, Scottish
mountains and lake districts etc.
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Looking at the other aspect of
tourism that is
transportation, London is
having the wonderful
internal and external
transportation facility which
helps people to visit from
one place to another.
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It is also considered as one of the best cities in the world
that is having excellent water, road and aviation
transport mechanism. On the other hand Costa Rica fails
in this as they do not have good transportation as well as
infrastructure so the tourists at these places cannot visit
many places in a limited amount of time.
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Crime rate is another factor that impacts the global tourism and is
the driving force in term of number of turnouts at these places as
the governments are highly cautious about their people going to
any other country hence they publish advisories for their citizens
to avoid places which is having higher terror activities. London
has faced many terror attacks in recent years while Costa Rica is
facing the problems of internal crimes.
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Characteristics of tourist destinations that
effects its appeal.
Any tourist destination is having several characteristics. These
characteristics impacts the appeal of a particular place. Some
of the characteristic of tourist destinations is being illustrated
below:
Sales promotion and Publicity is one of the major factors that is
having positive as well as negative impact on the tourism
industry in any country.
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Crime rates have increased a
lot in past few years which
limits the tourist flow
inside the country. In spite
of the UK is considered as
one of the safest locations
of the world.
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In order to increase the product
life cycle In UK there is high
level of involvement of the
authorities to give better
services to the visitors such
as information centres,
current locations, maps etc.
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There are some economic elements that can make negative
impact on the tourism industry in UK like adverse exchange
rates, inflation in the country as well as increasing cost of
infrastructure. It helps to reduce their investment in prime
areas like education and healthcare.
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