Comprehensive Analysis of Tourist Destinations and Their Appeal

This report provides a detailed analysis of global tourist destinations, focusing on the United Kingdom and other popular locations. It examines the main destinations and generators of tourism worldwide, analyzing statistics to identify trends and predict future developments. The report also delves into the cultural, social, and physical features that characterize tourist destinations, comparing the appeal of leading destinations with those that are currently developing. Furthermore, it evaluates how these characteristics affect a destination's overall appeal and explores issues that impact popularity, including the potential for responsible tourism to enhance host communities. The report covers statistical data, including tourist arrival numbers, revenue generation, and online travel trends, providing a comprehensive overview of the tourism industry and its evolving dynamics. The analysis includes factors like cultural heritage, historical significance, and physical attractions, as well as the impact of technology and economic factors on the industry's future.

TOURISTS DESTINATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................4
TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Analyse the main tourists destinations and generators of the world..........................................4
1.2 Analyse the statistics to determine tourism destination trends and predict the future trends....7
TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................9
2.1 Analyse the cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations..................................9
TASK 3...............................................................................................................................................15
3.1 Comparison of appeal of current leading tourists destination with that of currently developing
tourists destination.........................................................................................................................15
3.2 Evaluate how characteristics of a tourist destination affect its appeal.....................................16
TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................18
4.1 Analyse issues that affect the popularity of tourist destination................................................18
4.2 Discuss the potential for responsible tourism to enhance the host community at worldwide
tourist destination...........................................................................................................................19
CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................20
References..........................................................................................................................................22

INTRODUCTION
Tourist destinations are the centre of attraction of the place to attract the visitors. It is a place
of interest where people visited for its scenic beauty of the place. It also includes the inherent and
natural beauty, cultural value of a particular place. The places are also visited for their historical
significance related to the king or queen of that empire. Some places also attract more kids and the
youngsters typically for the leisure the place is offering such as Disneyland in Hong Kong. Another
amazing tourists destinations are grab the interests of the visitor are Adventure and Amusement.
TASK 1
1.1 Analyse the main tourists destinations and generators of the world
Following are the different tourist destinations that seeks the attention of wide number of
people towards its beauty, heritage culture, old-age traditions, historical monuments which is
famous among the whole world. These tourist destinations are sorted from wide range of tourists’
destinations in the whole world on the basis of number of visitors and the income generated by
these destinations from different sources are:
Tower of London
It is popular tourist destination in the centre of UK that is London which reflects the old
traditions and rituals of the emperors of the London. In the history of royal palace an armoury, a
prison, an execution, chamber, a zoo, a barracks and a jewel house are the attractions of this tower
which offers great insight into 1000 years of the history.
Income generation from tower of London- £26.4bn
Number of visitors-2,785,249bn
Rank among UK- 9
St Paul's cathedral

Another famous tourists attractions in London is iconic cathedral which has noticed
various essential events in Britain's history including state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill
and marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. This historical place will offer 1200
years of history as the chance to climb 237 steps towards the top of spectacular dome.
Generation of income from this place- £30bn
Number of visitors-1,892,467 annually
Flamingo Land Theme Park (Yorkshire)
It is recognised tourists destination which is suitable for different age groups
especially for children as the place is set for relaxation in the swimming pool. It is that
entertainment and amusement park which is combination of rides, zoo and live
entertainment and a variety restaurants to please the tourists’ by serving their speciality.
Income-£6.3bn
Number of touristors-12.8million
Barcelona (Spain)

It has long history of tourism from the medieval age as it was an important site for
Christian pilgrims which induces the tourism level of this place. It has famous world
heritage museums and several sites that signify the heritage cultures and all the traditions.
Income-237,000,000€
Number of vistitors-7.5 million
Eiffel Tower (Paris)
The glory of Paris is this tower which signifies the shine of culture of the Paris that
the trend of their traditions always should stay on top.
Income-£344bn
Number of visitors- 7 million
Rank- 2 Tallest structure
The current popular tourist destination among the visitors is United Kingdom (Heo, 2016).
United Kingdom is most famous tourist destination. It has several kinds of destinations to explore
and enjoy. The tourist destinations of the UK gives a visitor a luxury experience. It has many
amusement parks, exotic venues, art galleries to explore the true talent of the UK, museums, statues
and monuments, beaches, islands, attractions, delicious food, party casinos and many shopping
malls and shopping centre. Every tourists like to shop new and different things wherever they go.
The United Kingdom is known as the land of museums with various kind of cultures, religion and
beliefs. The capital of UK is London which has many monuments and large buildings to explore.
Another cities to explore in the UK are Edinburgh, Liverpool, Llandudno, Blackpool and Torquay.
It is located on the west coast of the Europe. It is ranked 8th biggest tourist destination in the world.

Tourists arrival (2013) Tourists arrival (2014) (2013 to 2014) % change
31.1 million 32.6 million 5 % Increasing
The results of the above table are clearly shows that the tourist arrival count in the UK has
increased from 2013 to 2014. It also shows that the increment of 5% in two year from 2013 to 2014.
The UK comes in the top 10 list of the favourite destinations. Tourism industry of UK has
emerged as global economic sector (Miličević, Mihalič, and Sever, 2016.). The United Kingdom
and other tourists’ destinations worldwide generate large amount of revenue that contributes to the
world's total GDP. Tourists’ destinations helps to generate large amount revenue income to the
economy. It also tried to find out the untouched areas and also generate income from that area that
can be added in the overall GDP. The tour arrival number in 2015 was 36.115 million. The visitors
in UK spends $22.072 billion mostly by the foreign visitors. The country's single most tourist
destinations are in London which is famous for Tower of London. According to the report by
UNWTO the international tourism of UK will reach 1.8 billion by the year 2030 as per the
developing speed of the country. The tourism industry of the UK is growing by 89% annually. The
tourism sector is the fastest growing industry in the whole world. The growth of the tourism
industry has changed the 1 billion tourists into the opportunities.
1.2 Analyse the statistics to determine tourism destination trends and predict the future trends
Tourism industry has witnessed different challenges in the last decade which affect the
overall tourist destination operating in this kind of industry will also give negative impact on the
future tourists demands. Increasing technology will induces the level of E- tourism due to the
change in technology. There are different factors which may possess serious challenges to all the
tourist destinations and affect its future demand which are given below:
New and emerging inbound destinations
Countries like Eastern Europe, EU, Asia and South America plays a significant role as leading
internal destinations as they arouse the interest of different travellers. It has been observed that
Eastern Europe attracted 6,047 million number of visitors and transform all of them into their
pockets. This also boosts up the growth rate from initial stage to the higher level.
Emerging out-bound level
China and India leads all other countries in terms of expansion of their overseas market that
creates a barrier for all other tourist destinations in marking their foot in the existing market. 34,524
million Chinese people travelled in all across the world marking over 66 percentage incxrease over
the past years. Indian visitors travelled 12,988 million in all over the world and mark 555

percentage of increase from the previous years.
Green tourism
This will really affect the business performance of the different tourist destinations in terms
of increasing or decreasing their customers as this tourism demands nature based tourism in order to
maintain the dignity of the sustainability.
The tourism industry of United Kingdom has showed rapid developing speed. According to
the statistical report the significant foreign tourists to UK are from The United States of America.
The visitors of the America spends a lot of money for an exotic vacations in the UK (Matzler and
et.al. 2016). United Kingdom has remained top among the other popular tourists’ destinations in the
UK. The biggest source of the income generated from the tourism industry in the United Kingdom.
A table below provide the trend of the tourist visit in UK along with rank of different cities with the
respective country:
Rank City 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total
1 London 15341 14752 14705 14210 59010
2 Edinburgh 1330 1190 1314 1320 5156
3 Manchester 970 890 812 799 3471
4 Birmingham 699 764 710 739 2912
5 Glasgow 630 754 550 624 2558
The above results of the table clearly shows that the London toped among the other cities in
the UK. The London ranked highest number of tourists due to London’s highest attracted Tower of
London. The other popular point of attraction in London are The London eye, British museum,
Buckingham place to capture the attentions of the people visited London towards the royal beauty
of the palace and the royal history of the palace. Edinburgh remains on the second place due the the
famous city and capital of Scotland (Lee and Bai, 2016). Another famous tourists points are
Aethur's seat, cove, Royal Yacht Britannia and National museum of Scotland. Manchester secures
third position in UK due to the presence of famous Cathedral, shopping hubs and famous artefacts
of the UK. Birmingham ranks 4th place in England with the help of several attractions of the UK
such as Aston hall, Millennium point and Birmingham botanical garden. Last but not the least rank
that is fifth rank goes to Glasgow which is famous for the natural beauty and exotic beaches and
shopping malls and centres to grab the interests of the people visited to the UK for experience the
pleasure.

The analysis of tourism industry of United Kingdom is divided into various sectors:
Airline industry
Lodging
Cruise lines
Travel agencies
Motor coach operators
According to the survey in 2015 the most challenging and risky factors of European tourism
are: Increased standard of living, Uncertainty in the economy and political interferences.
The online travel trends have also enhanced and expected to be increase in the near future.
The table below clearly defines the online travel trends in United Kingdom:
Percentage of Trips January till August 2014 January till August 2015
Online Booking 85 96
Online Inquiry 50 52
Users of internet 98 99.66
No internet users 89 56
The table clearly reflects the changing trends towards the online networking in the travel
industry. The geographical demand shift fully supported the travel and tourism industry.
Tourism industry is now known as the global economic sector of the whole world and its
speed is very high.
TASK 2
2.1 Analyse the cultural, social and physical features of tourist destinations
The United Kingdom is popularly known as the land of museums with different cultures,
religion, beliefs, values and political considerations (Whang, Yong. 2016). Tourism industry of
United kingdom is consists of several kinds of factors which needs to be taken care such as cultural,
social and physical features of a particular tourists destinations in order to caught the interests of the
people visited there for the vacations and enjoyment purpose. These factors are the deciding in
nature of the popularity of the specific destinations in comparison to the proper follow up of these
factors. These are major elements for creating the appeal for the tourists’ destination.
Following are analysis of all the three features that is social, cultural and physical features of
a tourist destination that is UK and Bulgaria which are given below:
Factors UK Bulgaria

Cultural
The background of the whole
Uk is covered with historical
traditions in terms of museums,
monuments like tower of
London, Buckingham palace,
and house of parliament.
It is famous city of museums
which reflects their traditional
and heritage of the place by
showcasing all the richness of
their culture.
It has several monument which
reflects the attraction of this
country as the architecture of

The famous church of the
London also symbolises the
memory of sir Winston
Churchill.
Festivals are being part of this
nations such as new year and
Easter
these are impossible for the
modern architectures.
The famous megaiths of this
place which is is creativity with
the help of stones signifies the
medieval past history about this
place.

In terms of food it serves beat
quality and different variety of
food such as Greece and turkey
food that is tomato, cucumber
and cheese salad.
Social
UK respects different religion
such as Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism
and Buddhism
It is safe country in terms of
safety of all the tourists who
visit for the first time in this
country as they respect all
different persons by imposing
reliable government policies.
It respects all the different
religions bur special importance
given to the Bulgarian
orthodox. Roman Catholics,
Muslims, Protestants, Jews.
It is good tourist destinations
which is suitable for all the
visitors as well as for business
purpose as they can access all
different variety of goods from
these markets.

Physical
This country is located in the
urban areas which is fully
connected with all the public
transport facilities to retain the
visitors for long term in terms
of accommodation, hotels near
the destinations, transport.
It is famous place for
adventurous trips as it is wholly
surrounded by lakes as suitable
for picnic spots in beaches and
feel the relaxation in these
lakes.
The landscape diversity
attracted wide number of
people towards the beauty in
terms of mountains and hills.
Cultural Resources
It includes the heritage and inherited property of the ancestors such as museums,
monuments, old churches and other manmade structures just like artefacts, buildings to attract the
visitors more towards the tourist places. This also contains the delicious and tasty food as per their
culture For Example: In Thailand mostly we found Thai food such as Red Thai curry famous food
of Thailand, in china, Chinese food is popular such as Hakka noodles, Manchurian, chowmein. It is
not limited only to the food but also includes music and entertainment activities such as river
rafting, motor bike racing, Bunji jumping, water rides, motor boat riding and many more fun.
Another important things includes such as sports, music and arts gallery of a particular place
(Claveria and Poluzzi, 2016). The rich sources of the place tremendously affect the person's feeling
and attracted them towards the rich heritage of the royal empire and their properties.