Analyzing Global Tourism Destinations by Visitor Numbers and Revenue

The analysis involves studying the main tourist destinations globally by assessing both the number of international visitors and the revenue generated in 2003. The United Kingdom, as per the data, ranks eighth by visitor count and ninth in income generation among leading nations including France, USA, Spain, China, Italy, Turkey, Germany, and Macao. Investment in tourism infrastructure plays a pivotal role in this dynamic sector's growth, with countries like China investing significantly to maintain their cultural heritage sites, thereby boosting tourist numbers.

Tourist Destinations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK-1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 The main tourist destinations of the world in terms of numbers and income generation 1
1.2 The latest trends in tourist destination and prediction of future trends............................5
TASK-2............................................................................................................................................8
2.1 The culture, social and physical features of tourist destinations .....................................9
2.2 Comparing features of developing and leading tourist destinations................................9
TASK-3..........................................................................................................................................13
3.1 Comparison between current leading destination of tourism with developing tourist
destinations...........................................................................................................................13
3.2 Characteristics of a tourist destination that affect its appeal:.........................................21
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TASK-4..........................................................................................................................................29
4.1 Issues that affect popularity of tourist destinations........................................................29
4.2 Potential of tourism to enhance the host community.....................................................30
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................31
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................32

INTRODUCTION
On the economy of the country there is a huge impact due to tourism sector. Across the
globe this sector have provided job opportunities for many unemployed employees and is also a
good source of creation of income. In some parts of countries it also considered as an important
source of welfare (Kim, Holland and Han, 2013). The tourists that are choosing different
destination as per their desire and needs. More and more countries are trying to improve their
destination in order to increase the n umber of tourist in their country. The goal of tourism
sectors is to provide the tourists with best experience during their travel. There are many
beautiful place in the UK that can be visited by the tourists.
In this report the well-known destination of the world will be presented in terms of their
rank and income generation. This report will also represent the latest trends in the tourist
destination. The various features such as social, culture and physical features etc of tourist
destination will also be shown. A comparison of developed and developing countries will be also
conducted in this report. This report will also present the issues that affects the popularity of
tourist destination.
TASK-1
1.1 The main tourist destinations of the world in terms of numbers and income generation
The country is called a tourist receiving country when the number of tourists that are
visiting that particular country are more in number. For an instance if the number of tourist that
are visiting China for their travel then China will be termed as a tourist receiving country. The
country is termed as tourist generator company when the number of tourist are generated from
that particular country. For an instance if the n umber of tourist that coming form Spain are more
than it will defined a tourist generating country. France is the highest tourist receiving country in
the world as the number of tourist that are visiting France are more in number in comparison
with other countries of the world. Every year the number of visitors are also visiting Germany
for global destination. The London, Manchester ,Cambridge , Glasgow etc are the major
destination of tourists in the UK (Komppula, 2014). Some well-known and popular tourist
attractions in the UK are tower of London, St.Paul cathedral, Westminster Abbey etc.
The table that is given below will represent the countries on the basis of rans that
is mostly preferred by the tourist
Rank Country Location Visitors Visitors in Change 2010
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market visiting 2014 to 2015
1 France Europe 70.7 m 72.7 m 2.0 %
2 USA America 52.3 m 54.2 m 8.3 %
3 China Asia 56.6 m 48.3 m 8 %
4 Spain Europe 49.6 m 49.9 m 1 %
5 Italy Europe 42.6 m 40.1 m 0.6 %
6 UK Europe 28.0 m 25.1 m 0.1%
7 Turkey Europe 22.5 m 20.7 m 5.6%
8 Germany Europe 21.2 m 20.2 m 9.2 %
The next table will show the income generation of these all countries (Mowforth and
Munt, 2015.). At the top position the country that is earning the highest income will be
represented and at the down position the country that is earning the lowest income in this tourist
sectors will be shown.
Rank Country Location market Income generation
1 USA America 100.5
2 Spain Europe 50.5
3 France Europe 45.2
4 China Asia 44.8
5 Italy Europe 35.6
6 Germany Europe 32.6
7 United
kingdom
Europe 30.5
8 Australia Oceania 30.2
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Thus looking at both of these tables one can conclude that the major tourist receiving
country of the world is France whereas the country which is in top position of earning the highest
income is USA. The trends in fashion and the excellent architectural design in France are the
reason that number of tourist are more in number in this country. At the 6th position UK stands
in context of number of tourists that are visiting this country and it stands at 7th position in terms
of income generation from tourist activities (Pearce, 2014). The tourist that are visiting UK
found its tourist spots quite attractive and also the highest number of tourist spots in the world
are in London and for this reason it is also known as busiest city in the world. The Buck house,
London eye and Science museum are the tourist spots that pulls the eye of crowd towards it.
The given tables below will show the statistics for tourist generating countries.
Rank Country Expenditure Market
share
Population Per capita
expenditure
1 Germany 80.1 8.3 77.4 950
2 United States 73.2 8.2 74.3 243
3 China 42.6 6.1 1348 40
4 UK 49.2 5.2 48.6 768
5 France 37.3 4.2 34.7 623
6 Canada 23.1 3.1 28.5 897
7 Japan 22.1 3.0 25.7 210
8 Italy 26.3 2.5 23.8 440
Since Germany has the biggest economy in the world that is why Germany is leading
tourist generating country. It is ranked at 4th position in the world as well. In terms of tourist
generating countries United states stands at 2nd position. At 4th position UK stands in terms of
tourist generating country ad in the world it stands at 7th position. The $39602 is the per capita
income of UK. On the lifestyle, people spend heavily in the UK (Pike and Page, 2014.).
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Illustration 1: London Eye
(Source:London Eye , 2017.)

1.2 The latest trends in tourist destination and prediction of future trends
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Business 8166 9000 8834 8120 6513 6790
Holiday 9170 10555 10768 10924 11423 11669
Study 600 690 650 550 500 503
VFR 8657 9403 9720 9723 8780 8404
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Business 4044 4750 4543 4574 3680 4000
Holiday 4567 4960 5111 5478 6370 6509
Study 1112 1210 1134 1200 1369 1400
VFR 3210 3500 3590 3816 3780 3659
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From the above graph it can be concluded that from 2006 to 2010 the number of tourist that are
visiting and the money that is spent by them in this destination is being increasing.
The London is the most visited tourist destination of the UK. London is being visited by
both domestic and international visitors. The various attractions are there in London which is
being visited by tourists. More than 14 million tourist from oversees were there in London in the
year 2013 who visited London. Towards the economy of UK 14 million dollar is contributed by
London. The economic significance of London is good. For the development of economy of
London the sectors of tourism is considered as a primary factor. The huge revenue is earned by
tourism when the number of visitors that are visiting London do shopping and visit exhibitions of
London. The opportunities of job are proved by tourism sectors (Telfer and Sharpley, 2015). The
various initiative is also taking by the government of UK in order to proved tourist with better
services in this country. In order to increase the number of tourist that are visiting UK the
government have invested a lot of money in online advertisement. By these advertisements the
tourist will come to know about facilities and services and beautiful attractive spots of UK.
The Olympic games that have been held in UK have provided major attraction to people
who are visiting UK. More and more tourist are visiting UK due to these games held in this
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country. Across the globe London is the only city in which these games were held 3 times in a
year. The tourist that are visiting UK are large in numbers as also as in the UK there is
Manchester which is famous for its arts, crafts and design centres. The number of tourist
that will be visiting UK will increase in the coming period. It is expected that about 235 million
people will visit UK and in them about 20 million pole will be from international origin. A high
source of income will be generated from this. The UK is planning to have Eco-tourism has more
and more customer today prefer this type of tourism. This will help to protect the environment.
The more number of tourists will be there if the tourism in UK becomes Eco-tourism (Volgger
and Pechlaner, 2014.). Various organization s are helping UK in order to promote ecotourism in
this county.
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2.1 The culture, social and
physical features of
tourist destinations
There are two most
popular destination in UK
which is known Big Ben and
Tower of London these two
places are the most beautiful
places in UK.
Physical features
In the UK, Big Ben is
known as the most visited
place .The number of tourist
that is visiting UK are more in
number as it has the presence
of educational institution and
historic monuments. Big Ben
is also known for Houses of
Parliament which is the most
iconic landmarks on London
street. Big Ben is the name
given to the massive bell
inside the building which
weighs more than 13 tons
(13760).
Other destination of
UK which is again very
famous and effective
launching new results and
make the systematic
performance. On the other
Social and cultural
In terms of seasonal
employment the sociology-
cultural benefit from the
industry of tourism. The
lifestyle of people looking for
permanent job can be spoiled
by this sector as seasonable job
opportunities is been provided.
This problem of temporary job
need to be solved in these
sectors. It is essential to attract
tourist towards the education,
research and medical so that
throughout the year the tourist
attract this country and the
permanent job will be there for
the people. The cultural
significance of the country will
be enhanced as the crafts and
design market of the country is
expected to grow. And for
London the behavioural values
will also be enhanced for
tourist that are visiting London
towards Big Ben and Tower
of London . There can be both
positive and negative impact
on environment due to this
sector. The positive impact
will be that natural destination
2.2 Comparing features of
developing and leading
tourist destinations
The historic tourist
destination features that can be
compared between developing
country and leading tourist
destination are infrastructure,
branding ,purpose of tourism
etc. As the developing country
India have been selected and
the destination of tourist that is
been chosen is Taj-Mahal at
Agra .And it's comparison will
be done with developed
country such as London .In
comparison, with the elements
of infrastructure such as roads,
travel industry and
construction industry are much
better in London.
The support for
tourism destination in London
is better comparison with
Agra, India. In terms of
branding the interests is been
take by government and other
stakeholders in order to
promote London tourism.
They want that more and more
number of tourist should visits
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side, Tower of London
officially is a historic castle
located on the north bank of
the River Thames in central
London.
More than 16 million
people visit London and from
tourist activities it contributes
about 11 billion dollars. In
London activities of tourism is
considered as the major
economic driver. The
industries such as
transportation, construction ,
hotel and food industry also
earn revenue from the tourism
activities in London (Zehrer
and Tschiderer, 2014).
Through direct or indirect
ways more than 0.1 million
people are employed in
tourism activities. In the
coming time the economic
development from activities of
tourism will increase. Through
online method various
attempts are being made by the
government to promote
tourism activities of UK. From
the perspective of social
benefits tourism in London is
will be preserved in order to
generate more revenue form
tourist activities. The negative
impact will due to pollution
and wastes discharged from
tourism activities. Due to
positive impact on tourism the
roads are well-developed and
historic monuments are
maintained in order to increase
the number of tourist that are
visiting UK (Zhang and Lu,
2014).
The most visited tourist
destitution in the UK is
London. As it compromises
various attractions so it is
being visited by both domestic
and international visitors. Like
of the people visited to the
The number of visitors in the
London in year 2013 was
about 15 million. Towards the
economy of UK. The
economic significance of
London is good as it
contributes net 17 billion
dollar. For a huge number of
people, it provides possibility
of employment. The rates of
unemployment have also been
London as this will increase
the income and also will be
good for economic growth of
the country. By using booth
online and offline tolls the
awareness regarding elements
of cultural and heritage are
bestowed. But on the contrary
note India is far behind
London as the efforts that is
done by government of
London is more in comparison
with India. In order to promote
its branding more efforts need
to be done by India.
The purpose of tourism affects
both developed and developing
countries. In India for pleasure
the tourism is done as it will
provide seasonality on Indian
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