Evaluation of Special Interest Tourism: Camden Town and Prague

This report presents an analysis of special interest tourism, focusing on a class tour of Camden Town, evaluating its features, and comparing it to Prague. The report begins with an introduction to special interest tourism, emphasizing its role in cultural and educational enhancement. It then delves into the features of a walking tour in Camden Town, highlighting its benefits for students, including health and cultural immersion. A merit-level analysis compares Camden Town with Prague, discussing their advantages and disadvantages, and exploring tourist motivation factors. The report also evaluates the organizational and support logistics involved in special tourism trips, examining the role of travel operators like Costsaver and how they resolve issues faced by tourists. The success of the Camden Town tour is assessed, with recommendations provided to improve future special interest tourism experiences. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding cultural values and addressing tourist needs for successful and enriching travel experiences.

Special Interest Tourism

Table of Contents
g. Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
h) Special Interest Tourism and its Features................................................................................3
i). Merit level Analysis of Camden Town With a Special Interest Tour in Other European City
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j) Evaluation of organisational and support logistics involved in special tourism trips..............5
k) How operators resolve issues of special interest tourists........................................................6
l) Success of tour and recommendations.....................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

g. Introduction
The class tour which was organized for the purpose of cultural and educational
enhancement of students. The Camden town is famous for its cultural values and it is also known
for traditional food and considered as Fashion hub. In Camden town main stream musicians and
artist perform in cafes this make the tour of city more interesting and interactive. The other
things of the Camden town are musical and artistic performances in school and restaurants
(Pieterse, 2019). This place is full of gardens which are very good destinations for students to
learn about nature. This different types of musical, cultural and interactive tours can help
students to learn more about traditional culture and music. This tours are conducted on the
frequent basis and organized in fifteen days. The tour is designed and planned on proper
scheduled to make it highly interactive and interesting fort the students. The purpose of this tour
is to make students aware of local culture and tradition of Camden Town.
h) Special Interest Tourism and its Features
The special interest tours is considered as the tour of individual groups whose interests
are same. The purpose of SIT is to make people aware of the particular destination and improve
their knowledge for particular place. Class tour of Camden is a walking tour of the city in which
students are taken to different places in town to let them interact with local people and place to
improve their knowledge about the place. The different features of the SIP walking tour of
Camden Town are more about practical education of specific location of interest. The students
will get the information of locality and social and cultural values of people. The other features of
the special interest tourism are rewarding, enriching, experience and learning experiences. In the
SIP students can got opportunity to show their talent on specific platform they were rewarded for
their good performance (Adekola and Sergi, 2016). This help them to learn how to get
opportunity and how to utilize it. The different type of knowledge gain by students is of two type
first one is natural and other one is cultural. Natural sites like mountains, valleys, caves, and
reefs around town help the student to learn about the climatic conditions of Camden Town.
Student also have learned the eco-cycle around the place and that helps them to understand about
environment and geographic limitations.
Benefits of Camden Town Walking Tour
First of all the walking tours are healthy for student and can keep them fit. The walking
tours are most important for student to encourage them to live healthy life. Walking tours also

can help students to visit the beauty of local places which were in front of them and were hiding
behind the engaged life. The other things students have experienced is the personal and intimate
encounter with tourist destination. This also helped them to interact with the real people who are
doing something spacial with their individual talent. Walking is very affordable for the students
and this is important to keep the tour under budget to make expenses on right place. In the
walking tour students were provided with enough time to gain much information about place or
particular activity. This is how walking tour help students and schools to develop better
understanding of locality in detail.
i). Merit level Analysis of Camden Town With a Special Interest Tour in Other European City
The other similar city that is also good for walking tours. Both cities are famous for
fusion of modern and traditional values. Prague is one of the most famous location in Czech
Republic as a tourist location. The beauty of location is all about old buildings and its culture.
The places of tourism are Charles bridge, Prague castle, St. Vitus Cathedral and Prague
Astronomical Clock (Dabija, Pop and Postelnicu, 2016). These places of tourism are historical
location. In the Camden city the most of the tourism places are related to food and musical
concerts of famous personalities. So both the places have there individual qualities and
limitations.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Walking Tour
Camden Town
Benefits
1. The natural beauty around the Camden Town is Too good to visit.
2. Walking tours are too good for health and at place like Camden Town it is healthy for
students.
3. This will encourage the students to work on their personal talent.
4. They also can help them learn the cultural values of Camden Town.
Disadvantages
1. All the places in Camden Town are mostly of same type so there is limited locations for
tour.
2. Only few students have interest in music and cooking so this tour will be not that much
effective for students.
Prague

Benefits
1. Prague is full of historical building so this can make the walking tour more interesting for
students.
2. This will help the students to learn about the history of the place.
Disadvantages
1. The locations in Prague are in middle of city so it is difficult to organize a walking tour in
city.
2. There are no natural sites in Prague city so this will remain focused on historic
architecture and structure of buildings.
Tourist Motivation
There are two factors of a location can motivate the tourists. This factors are internal and
external. The internal factors are related to the psychological needs of individual person. The
internal factors are their attitude, perception, values of belief and their personality (Paik, Lee and
Pak, 2019). The external factors in the tourist motivation are extrication motivation, family and
age, cultural and social class and market of place. This things does matter in the motivation of
tourists. For a location it is important to keep satisfaction and motivation of tourist high to attract
more tourist on the location.
Maslow's hierarchy of Needs- This theory can be used for motivation of tourist. The different
needs are self actualization and esteem that is about self confidence and respect of tourist. The
other needs are love and belonging, if the get love and belongingness at destination this will
encourage them to visit the place again. And the safety and psychological needs are for physical
and mental peace.
j) Evaluation of organisational and support logistics involved in special tourism trips
Organisational and support logistics play an important role in development and
management of special interest tourism trips as they help in making the trips smooth, easy and
exciting for the specific interest tourists. Logistic help in management and smooth flow of
resources from one point of origin to another point of consumption to meet the needs and
requirements of special interest tourists. In other words it can be explained as getting the right
resources like people, equipments, food, vehicle and other resources at the right place on right
time (Sheela, Busby and Huang, 2017). Within the logistic support there generally come physical
item which may involve the integration of information flow to tourists which specifically require,

material handling, transportation, security, inventory etc. So, support from logistics help in
making the tour for special interest tourists smooth and easy. Travel organisation also helps in
managing and developing the special interest tourism trips as they help in organising the
destinations for tourists where tourists visit. Also, they help in providing various travel related
services to the tourists and also ensure that tourists are protected from any sort of inconvenience.
Organisations also ensures that tourists need are full met which result high of satisfaction among
the tourists. Organisations also play an important role in addressing any kind of issue which may
reach to tourist and put their efforts to address them. The organisation which was involved in
Camden Town Walking tour was Costsaver which specialises in manages and organises such
type of tours. It has got a strong link with the logistics and have got experienced tourists guides
which help in making the tour fun and exciting for tourists. Total money which was charged by
Costsaver for Camden Town walking tour per day was €100 per day.
k) How operators resolve issues of special interest tourists
There were many issues which were faced by special interest tourists during Camden
walking tour which were resolved by travel operators like tourists of class Camden tour were not
able to decide where to start from in order to begin their travel. This issue was addressed by the
operators by choosing a start point for their travel as they spend more time in making research
and were confused in choosing a starting point. Another issue which was faced by the tourists
was that they were facing the security issue for the stuff they were carrying with them and tour
operator provided security for their stuff and also ensured that no harm reach to travellers as well
(Smith and Puczkó, 2015). Another issue which was faced by the travellers during the walking
tour was that they were unable grab the entire information of the destinations which they have
chosen. Operators also help them with that issue as they provided authentic information which
special interest tourist required and it made them delighted and happy. Another issue which was
faced by the travellers is consumption of hygiene food. Most of the travellers within the group
were health conscious, and they wanted to eat type of food which hygienic but at low cost. This
issue was also addressed by operators as they were fully aware of town and food served there.
So, they help in choosing a restaurant which served quality food at low cost. Also, some tourists
were confused during the shopping, as they were not able to decide where to shop from in order
famous things in Camden town. It was the operator which helped in solving this issue, as they
helped in identifying the shops from which tourists can by their required stuff. Operators also

helped special interests tourists for getting registered for music and dance competition and
provided the specific information and minor details regarding the various events which were
conducted with the Camden town (Tsai and Wang, 2017). Operators also dealt many enquires
from the travellers and also helped the travellers at each and every level of travel and helped in
managing various issues like choosing the price, products, destinations, food etc at very
affordable rates. So, operators played an important role in addressing the issues of special
interest tourists during the travel.
l) Success of tour and recommendations
It has been analysed that entire travel was full of fun and excitements they where very fun
and exciting things going on during the tour. The tour was success as the goal of special interests
tourist was achieved for which they had chosen this tour. The main motive of thus walking tour
to Camden Town was to gather the information of the culture, famous destinations, food etc and
generate the awareness and gain knowledge the various events which were organiser in Camden
Town. This walking tour was also success as the aims of tourists were fulfilled as all of their
main four experiences were fulfilled like rewarding, adventurous experiences, learning
experience and enriching. During the tour entire class was excited during the travel also they
participated in various events during which was full of team work and team spirited. It was also
analysed that there were some problems which were faced by class mates during the tour like
there were lots of arguments while choosing the events, food, etc and many factors which
resulted in many issues. But at the end all of these issue were dealt easily and each class mate
showed a team spirit and finally made a tour success.
Recommendations:
5. It is important for the class mates to work as team in order to perform any tasks in the
future.
6. Also, class team should understand each other and help each whenever anyone needs any
help or support during the project.
7. Proper distribution of tasks should be done which will help in completion of tasks on
time.
8. It is important for any project, to select a team leader which help is guiding and setting a
proper direction for the team, which will help in achieving the goals and objectives of a
project.

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