Tourism Destination Analysis: A Study of UK and Spain's Key Features

This report provides an analysis of the United Kingdom and Spain as tourist destinations, focusing on their social, cultural, and physical features. It examines how these features appeal to tourists and compares the characteristics of these destinations, highlighting the differences between the leading destination (UK) and the developing destination (Spain). The analysis covers aspects such as social groups, government policies, cultural heritage, physical landscapes, cost of living, sports, cuisine, and healthcare systems. The report concludes by referencing academic sources that support the findings and provide further insights into resort management, travel blog influence, contemporary tourism, and tourism synthesis. The information is relevant for product development managers seeking business opportunities in the tourism sector.

Tourist Destination
(United Kingdom and Spain)

Task 2
Understand the cultural, social and physical features of tourist
destinations

2.1 Analyse the social, cultural and physical features of
tourist destination explaining their appeal to tourist
Working as product development manager at TUI groups they need
to seek business opportunities across the globe through measuring
the cultural, social and physical aspect of the two different tourism
destination that basically results in appealing to the tourists for
preferring the destination to have leisure and luxurious stay.
The selected destination is
 United Kingdom
 Spain

United Kingdom

Spain

Contd..

United Kingdom
Characteristics
Social The social aspect within the UK as
tourist destination include respective
social groups that mainly possess the
various needs and the requirement of
international and national visitors, local
and national government policies etc.
The effectual social factors within the
destination will outcome in attracting
the large customers. UK government
policies mainly aims to crate
sustainability through preserving and
conserving the natural resources.

Contd..
Cultural UK destination mainly focuses on the immense cultural and
heritage origin like ancient structure, museums, memorial
etc. for instance, cultural aspect of UK mainly consists of
areas such as The Buckingham palace, Windsor castle etc
that appeal the visitant to visits the cultural and heritage
place. The visual aspect and the construction of museums
drive in the large figure of travelers towards the leading
destinations . Thus, it outcome in enhancing and increasing
the popularity of heritage location and areas among the
international and national visitors.
Physical The destination also features the English channel that
surrounds the country. The broad physical feature also
include beaches, mountains and hills etc that is essential
for attracting the customers . The physical appealing in the
UK is ten tallest mountains are found in Scotland.

Spain
Characteristics
Social The social environment within the Spain is that cost of
living is very expensive in the destination. The destination
is mainly famous for the sport activities such as football,
basketball, water sport etc. the education level within Spain
is affordable for the individual .
Cultural The cultural environment of Spain mainly include
preferences in food, lifestyles, sports, cultural museums
etc. the destination is famous for their wide range of food
flavours that is Mediterranean cuisine, Tortilla de Patata
etc. furthermore, the cultural environment also include that
Spain have large number of pubs that attract the visitors
towards visiting the place.
Physical The physical environment of Spain is that it is situated near the
coastline in the area of 4964 kms . In addition to this Spain also features
the mountains, beaches, natural places that keep attract the visitors
towards the destination. It is surrounded by the coastal region from the
sothern and eastern part and surrounded by mountains from the
northern sections.

2.2 Compare feature of developing and leading tourist destinations
Spain is renown for its ethnic and festive image and is the major visited nation in
the worldwide. There are several foreign tourist who loves to visit the country for
its electrifying nature and environment. Other than this, football is the heartbeat of
people in Spain as they live out when their team is on the fields . Spain is the
developing tourist destination as the visitors are now going to the places that
supports the sport tourism. On the other hand, UK is the leading destination that
possess high cost of living and it features different areas and location that appeal
customers ans visitors towards their places. Therefore, there is difference among
the features of developing and leading destination that is-

Contd..
 The key difference among both the destination is that leading
destination UK possess high standard of living that is it is an
expensive place for the visitors . On the other hand, as compare
to UK the developing destination Spain is less expensive.
 The leading destination UK is highly developed in terms of
infrastructure and attractive places, museums, memorial that
attract the customers. On the other hand, Spain the developing
destination is quite famous for the Sport as well as flora and
fauna.
 Moreover, the UK possess effectual and high quality health care
systems funded by NHS that results in attracting the tourism . On
the other hand, Spain have poor health care system that is
consider as the key drawback to appeal the tourists towards the
destination.

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