Tourism Destination Analysis: Geographical Characteristics and Impact

This report delves into the intricate relationship between geography and tourism, exploring how geographical factors influence destination development and tourist experiences. It examines key geographical theories and applies them to understand tourism patterns, evaluating both human and physical characteristics and their implications on product development. The report identifies and analyzes prominent tourism regions, providing insights into their geographical characteristics as settings for tourism. Furthermore, it elucidates the importance of geographical characteristics in the tourism decision-making process, offering a framework for applying geographical knowledge to enhance tourism strategies. The report uses Madrid and Rome as case studies, comparing their tourism resources and highlighting how their unique geographical features attract different types of tourists. The analysis covers aspects like climate, landscape, city layout, and building types, emphasizing how these elements shape the tourist experience and influence the appeal of each destination. The report also addresses tourism planning and decision-making at regional, national, and international levels, underscoring the role of geography in shaping policies and strategies for the tourism industry.

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Table of content
 INTRODUCTION
 TASK
 Explain the inter-relationship between geography and tourism.
 Apply and discuss geographical theories used to understand tourism.
 Evaluate the human and physical characteristics of geography and their implications on product development.
 Identify key tourism regions and provide an insight into their geographical characteristics as settings for
tourism.
 Explain the importance of geographical characteristics in the tourism decision-making process.
 Apply geographical knowledge in tourism decision making process.
 To evaluate the role of geographical characteristics in the process of shaping tourism destinations
 To identify key tourism regions and evaluate their appeal.
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

Introduction
 In recent times, tourism is maximising
numbers of tourists as per to international and
domestic that will result in increasing of
economical, social and environmental
impacts at various geographical stages. It
subsist by the tendency of an individuals to
change in case of corporate experience of
various places as respective. It creates their
standard from the local level to the
worldwide level. Business creates identifiable
relations between tourists and the large
number of spaces, places and groups where
they visit.

Inter-relationship between geography and
tourism
 The connections between tourism and
geography are linked to specific
terms such as place, location, space,
accessibility, scale and others. This
science also has an integrative
character, containing key elements
from all fields of geography, physical,
human and economic.

Apply and discuss geographical theories
used to understand tourism
 The geographical theory is an inevitable
product of the desire to systematic
existing the knowledge of geographical
work. The useful and needs for theories
that are get disputed and in the manner to
concentrate the predictive theory.

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 The theories and models represents the logical
form in the development of geographical
theories. Rome is the region of Italy that have
the set of original settlement to develops the
various segments. The Rome is famous for the
kings that are built on seven hills of
mountains like, the Aventine Hill, the Caelian
Hill, the Capitoline Hill, the Esquiline Hill,
the Palatine Hill, the Quirinal Hill and
the Viminal Hill. Modern day of Rome is now
intersectant by another river that flows into
the Tiber north of the historical centre.

Compare the two places in terms of its
tourism resources
MADRID
 Other Madrid resources that have also been measured by
which that is not get included on any of the routes of the
particular interest to visitors. Other than this museums,
restaurants and shopping centres have been involves by
which they have been obtained by alternative root age.
 It provides the information on availability to the main
tourism resources in Madrid as about the services that have
been provide to individual with inability. The information
also allows visitors to measure if the formation and the
facilities providing that are suitable for their specific
disability and their needs. The resources that have been
categorized into the following categories like, tourism
offices, museums and exhibition spaces, theatres and
cinemas, monuments, congress and trade fair facilities,
shopping centres recreational activities and restaurants.
ROME
 As per to their its unique history the Rome is the third most
visited urban centre in Europe and the fifteen as worldwide.
It influenced many visitors from all over the world who are
ready to discover structures and archaeological sites. It is not
to mention its famed the condition. It is all mannered in
exploring the Colosseum as the visitors are easily know how
to imagine fighters who fought for their life in the field and
got approval by the gathering. In the Circus Maxi-mus,
travellers will image horse drawn vehicle crashing into each
other in respect to be first in the race and in the Roman
facility that know the Roman public sections. Hence, the
popular locations that are follows:
 • St Peter's Basilica
 • the Forum Romanum, the Pantheon
 • the Trevi Fountain

Evaluate the human and physical characteristics of
geography and their implications on product development.
 Development geography is the branch of
geography which is related with the standard of
living and its quality of life of its human
inhabitants. The geographically informed
individual should have to understand the genesis,
evolution and places meaning. The places are
considers to be as distinctive features that give
them meaning and character which are different
from other locations.

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 Place: Rome place is in the Lazio region
which is in the central Italy on the Tiber river.
It is one of the this place is very beautiful and
developed on hills that are faced on Tiber
island. Madrid is the place which is on the
southern Meseta central.

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 Location- the location of Madrid is that it lies
on the southern Meseta central as it is on the
60km south of Guadarrama mountain range.
There is a difference in attitude within the city
of proper ranging from 700m around plaza.
The location of Rome is in the Lazio region of
central Italy on the Tiber river. The original
settlement which is developed on the hills that
is beside the Timber river. The city centre is
approx 24 km inland from Tyrrhenian sea.

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 Climate: Rome has a Mediterranean climate
which is so hot and dry summers and humid
winters. The climate between December,
January, and February are the coldest months
with the temperature of approximately 8 °C.

Analyse in what ways these aspects make
the two places different
 MADRID
 The landscape: It is situated on a plateau of sand and clay at an elevation of above
the sea level that make it highest capital in Europe.
 The city site and climate: The variations of temperature that are possible but
summers are systematically dry and hot that are becoming especially heavy in
July and August. In temperatures sometimes rise above 100 °F (38 °C).
 The city layout: Madrid is a city of different kind that are reflecting clearly the
various periods for the change and growth that took place. Neoclassical buildings
and grand boulevards that are created by the most distinguished designer of their
manner.

ROME
Building types: Some of the most sensational secular building structure that are the coliseum
for over 200 being that are known for many of which that are well preserved in the Arles, as
well as its progenitor, the Colosseum in Rome. It were used combatant, public displays, public
meetings and bullfights, the tradition of which still live on in Spain and Portugal.
 Basilica
 Circus
 Forum
 Horreum
 Insula
 Lighthouses
 Decorative structures: In architecture stone is a structure that has been turn up as the unit
from a encompassing enclosure or stone of rock. Monoliths are found in all kind of Roman
buildings of structure. As they are quarried without being moved or quarried and moved and
quarried that are moved and lifted clear off the ground into their position.

Identify key tourism regions and provide an insight into
their geographical characteristics as settings for tourism.
 Tourism is one of the fundamental key terms to
maintain the human right that is not having the
orientated manner to phrased the documents and
the organisation that have the rights to settle the
issues for the cultural growth of the tourism
industry. As when the tourism sector are mannered
to the travel that are planned and get controlled in
an approachable manner.

Explain the importance of geographical characteristics
in the tourism decision-making process
 It covers the broad range of issues in which experts will contribute in decision
making for both the public and the private sectors. The geographical
characteristics that phrased the field of areas to concern the geography is now
contributing in an important manner but could be given for increasing the
attention, resources, and access to policy makers in the tourism section.

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 Regional and Local Decisions : The process of
decision making as are functional regions that
are connected with various places by networks
of facility, communication, business economy
and trade. The areas that consist the
configuration of metropolis for pose the special
issues and challenges for policy making and
owing to their political, developed and
economical complexities in the tourism industry.

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 National Decisions : As in both public and private management the contributions
of experts are should disguised by secrecy and trademarked at rights. The tourism
sector involves the various sections at national level at decision making process
that address the high geographic knowledge to mention the orientation.

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 International Decisions : Geography that remains the central position as in
setting the schedule for the scientific research to mention the quality and
integrative that relates to the human and social behaviour for relating to global
situational change. Experts that have assist to set the international term for fixing
the oriented perception. The relationships between the economies that have
changed the process of manufacturing to moved as in developing countries in the
situation of lower labour costs.

How they attract different tourists.
MADRID
 Madrid does not have the traditional charm of geographical area or the beauty
of Barcelona as alternatively, it is a part of social life that is happening of their culture
and bustling night life. The city is perpetually buzzing with lot of activities and there
are a lot of things to see and do that tourists will be stale as per their choices.
 Prado Museum: It present the space that involves the manner of contemporary building
and the renovated 16th century courtyard of the San Jerónimo el Real monastery.

Rome
 Rome is so galactic that it can overtake the most dedicated tourist that should take some
time to follow back and enjoy la dolce vita in a park or sidewalk café. The tourist can be
able to select the best places to visit with this handy list of the top attractions in Rome.
 The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine: The galactic structure that left to visitors by
Roman antiquity, the Colosseum still give the model for sports areas in the present day
football stadium design that is distinctly based on this oval Roman plan.
 Vatican City: The Vatican is the smallest autonomous state in the world involves an area of
less than half a square kilometre as most of it enclosed by the Vatican walls. It involves the
inside view with the Vatican palace and gardens, St. Peter's Basilica and St. Peter's Square,
an area ruled by the Pope in the field and supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church.
 The Pantheon: The Pantheon was reinforced after alterations by fire in AD 80, and the
resultant as the brickwork that shows the extraordinarily high technical mastery of Roman
builders.

Apply geographical knowledge in tourism
decision making process
 The attainment of the tourism industry in any
country that depends on the quality of the nation
to with success to develop or manage and also to
promote the tourist and their resources and
processes. The large number of data in the
context of traveller as the activities that can be
placed in the variety of analogue and digital
formats. It often takes the long time to answer to
any questions or requests of tourist and their
demand.

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 Tourism planning requires as the more attributes
of data for collecting and processing the set of all
locations and their associates that should be
characterized and analysed in a attributes
context.
 In the purposeful context of the Rome and
Madrid that can be described and determined in
the tourism structure of the elements in the
linearly, thematically and anatomy in the tourist
industry.

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 As it is the standard manner of the abbreviated way as per the between of two
points. As there are variable manner that is more suited in the network issue to
phrase the formation of the model. Network Analysis is intimately related to the
several attributes to get interact with the modelling. A set of geographical turn up
that is related to the interconnection in a group by the number of ways in the
tourism industry.

To evaluate the role of geographical characteristics
in the process of shaping tourism destinations
 The hospitality industry is important for the tourism market and they are helping
in improving the performance. The natural environment and ecology is important
for the geographical areas of the organisation. The geography, ecological
environment and the tourists destinations are helping in the role of geographical
characteristics and they are making it easy for the tourists. The nature is helping
the tourists in having the decisions for the destinations and they are helping the
hospitality industry. It is helping in the global tourism and they are making it easy
for the services industry in increasing the performance.

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 The organisation is having many
employees and they are helping them in
improving performance. The employees
of the organisation are helping them in
expanding the business. The type of
organisation will help the organisation in
giving the products. The organisation is
having many employees and they will
help them in improving the performance.

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 The organisation are making products for the
needs of customers and for analysing the
people and the own remuneration. There are
many factors that help the people to attract
customers and they are focusing on the needs
of organisation.
 The organisation will improve performance
and help in monitoring the performance of the
employees. The organisations should make the
reasonable, reliable and attracting customers
which will improve performance and help the
employees to make the strategies.

To identify key tourism regions and
evaluate their appeal.
Tourism regiones of Madrid
 Upper Valley of Lozoya.
 Middle Valley of Lozoya.
 Lower Valley of Lozoya.
 Sierra del Rincon.
 Sierra de la Cabrera.
 Valley of Jarama
Tourism regions of Italy
 The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine. The
Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine
 Vatican City. Vatican City
 The Pantheon. The Pantheon
 Roman Forum. Roman Forum
 Trevi Fountain. Trevi Fountain
 Centro Storico & the Spanish Steps. The Spanish
Steps
 Santa Maria Maggiore. Santa Maria Maggiore
 Piazza Navona. Piazza Navona.

Provide recommendations on how they could be
improved in different perspectives in their future
marketing and management.
 Improve your branding: Brand research is generally conducted by interviewing
consumers or organizing direction groups. In this manner, the visitors can explore
various topics in depth and get response from the associates. The results will help
them to develop brand positioning and improve their marketing assets in the market.
 Understand your consumer better: This type of customer will helps them to
understand the profile of the target audience so that they can create a level of
focused for their brand positioning. By focusing their efforts on the right target
market, they can see faster consequence they built efficiency and total performance
from their marketing campaigns.

Conclusion
 In conclusion, tourism geography studies the relations between places, landscapes
and people, describing travel and tourism as an economic, social and cultural
activity. More concisely, it is all about the spatial and temporal dynamics, as well
as the interactions between the tourism resources.

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