TUI Group: Report on Brazil and Nepal Tourist Destination Analysis

This report provides a comparative analysis of Brazil and Nepal, examining their cultural, social, and physical features to aid the TUI Group in formulating new business strategies. The analysis covers cultural attributes like diversified populations and religious beliefs, social aspects including languag...Read More

Cultural, social and physical features
of Brazil and Nepal
TASK 2
TUI Group

2.1 Analysing the cultural, social and
physical features of tourist destinations
Brazil and Nepal has been reasoned in
reference to evaluate their cultural, social
and physical features to primarily aid the
TUI firm for a reliable approach of
formulating a new business at the priorly
designated locations.

Cultural attributes of Brazil
 Brazil is famous for its most varied and diversified culture
with a richness of Portuguese and Italian citizens. It is
however comprising with a currently enumerated
population of around 190 million people.
 Its diversified culture is due to yet another reason of its
long years of dominance and slavery due to which it is
now prevailing with a collaborative set of both African
and European residents.
 As a result to which, it together has a miscellaneous sort
of beliefs and traditions of its residing people with 10%
individuals are from the category of purely Black people
from Africa. However, approximately 40% are a mixture
of both White and Black people from the accompanied
regions.

Social attributes of Brazil
 The social attributes refer to the people
residing in Brazil where its 80% population
of Portuguese have substantially bought a
Romanian belief of Catholic.
 This has significantly raised the
establishment of churches and other
accompanying constituents. Portuguese is
therefore known to be the official language
of Brazil.

Physical attributes of Brazil
 This refers to the geographical features of
Brazil where it is recognised to be the
largest country of South America that
covers almost 47% of its continental area.
 It is together being considered to be the
home of a world's most famous natural
resource which is known as the Amazon
rainforest.

Cultural attributes of Nepal
 Nepal is together known for its rich and
unique culture with its diversified
composition of three groups known as the
ethnic, tribal and social groups. It has
thereby evidenced their major interest in
dance, music and crafts, etc.
 It together represents a mixed culture of
Indian, Mongolians and Tibetans with their
assorted formulations of celebrating distinct
festivals with a philosophical possession of
literature and religion.

Social attributes of Nepal
 The social attributes of Nepal defines their
strong religious beliefs where arrange
marriage is still a compulsory factor for the
residents.
 This together relates to their contrary
religious practices where around 23 million
Nepali people belongs to 69 various
linguistic groups with their differentiated
trends and even languages.

Physical attributes of Nepal
 This refers to the geographical features of
Nepal where it is profoundly known for the
famous valley of Kathmandu. It is therefore
referred to be a home of Mountains of
Himalayas that together covers Mount
Everest as well.
 It together shares its boundaries with China
and India where its total area is covered into
147, 181 per square kilometre.

2.2 Comparison of features
This is in respect to compare the
above ascertained features on the
basis of three main segregated
criteria, as stated below-

Transportation facility
Basis of comparison Brazil Nepal
Transportation
facility
 Brazil has a
good facility
of
transportation
where it is
sharing its
borders with
some notable
countries of
Argentina,
Columbia and
French, etc.
 Nepal in
accordance to
Brazil has
some
affordable
transportation
services for
the users with
a strong
network of
rail services.

Cont.
Basis of comparison Brazil Nepal
Transportation
facility
 It therefore
maintains some
apt quality of
services at all
level of
transportation
like the
proficient
modes of air,
rail, road and
water.
 However, an
only drawback
is its expensive
cost of services
to the users in
comparison of
Nepal.
 However, a
rigorous non
favourable
factor is its
weaken
international
boundaries
where it
comprises
with slight
less
connectivity
to the foreign
countries.

Income generation
Basis of comparison Brazil Nepal
Income
generation-
 Brazil is
famously
known for its
wealthy
lifestyle of
people which
directly
correspond to
their high level
of income
generation..
 Nepal is
however
considered to
have a lowered
ratio of income
generation
under a middle
range for the
workers.

Cont.
Basis of comparison Brazil Nepal
Income
generation-
 The governmental
bodies however has a
significant role into it
where they have
mandated an
elimination of any
discriminating factor
with an equal
distribution of income
to all the employees at
the workplace.
 It is however due to its
dual existence of urban
and rural amenities where
certain urbanised locations
are significant to lead
within a higher standard of
lives.

Governmental regime
Basis of
comparison Brazil Nepal
Governmental
regime-
This refers to the
governmental
procedures in regard to
assign the requisite
documentations of
passport and visas to the
travellers where Brazil's
authorised bodies apply
a strict approach with a
timely practice of such
allocations.
The governmental
bodies of Nepal
however formulates a
slight lenient approach
for such prominent
submissions of
documentations to the
tourists or visitors.

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