Global Tourism Destinations: A Comprehensive Report

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Global Tourism Destination

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Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
P1 Interpret statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of tourism on a global
scale.......................................................................................................................................................4
P2 Investigate the characteristics of key tourist-generating and receiving areas of the world................8
P3 Determine specific reasons for the growth of key global tourism generating and receiving areas of
the world..............................................................................................................................................10
P4 Compare and contrast the differences between a range of emerging global tourism destinations in
relation to stages of the destination life cycle, factors driving growth, and strategies employed.........11
M2 Evaluate and compare the importance of different factors affecting and driving tourism statistical
trends in a range of different global regions........................................................................................13
P5 Investigate the role and responsibilities of key international organizations in the development of
global tourism......................................................................................................................................14
M3 Review the significance of various threats, issues, and challenges to the future development of
global tourism......................................................................................................................................15
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................17
References...........................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
This report presents the overview and nature of tourism destination. It also discusses the
comparison between different emerging global tourism destination. It also illustrates the role
and responsibilities of key international organizations. Furthermore, this report evaluates the
significance of different threats, and challenges of future development.

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P1 Interpret statistics to accurately present an overview of the nature and trends of
tourism on a global scale
Tourism could be effective for operating the business in a systematic manner. Moreover,
there are different tourist destinations that could operate as creditors that are discussed as
below:
The data is collected by considering different sources as it is being collected by secondary
sources. London is the most imperative place of tourism as it is famous for tourism at the
global level. In 2014, the 18.69 million tourists have visited in London. It is examined that
there is higher competition level between London as well as Thailand. It is evaluated that
Bangkok is the most imperative place that is famous for the tourism. Moreover, Bangkok is
being famous for the tourism but due to changing in the people interest (Wu, 2016). It is
declined by 8% from the last years that could be affected to the overall tourism. Moreover,
Bangkok was not as famous as the Landon. Hence, the data of tourism is fluctuated as
compared to the last years. It is founded that the main reason for tourism decline in the
Thailand is due to the political factor. The political rules and regulation directly impact on the
overall situation of the country (Mathew, and Sreejesh, 2017).
Table showing the spending of the visitors on top 20 global tourist destinations:
(Sources: Knežević Cvelbar, et. al., 2016).

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In the current era, people critically evaluate the places before spending the money on that
place. The tourism place could play an imperative role I changing the overall situation of the
country as it directly affects to the impact on the development prices of products and services
has been considered at the time investing their money in the tourism. From the data, it is
founded that London is the first priority of people for the people due to the facility and
comfort of the place. Due to the effective facility, London is being the first choice of people.
It could directly influence the overall growth of the country (Knežević Cvelbar, et. al., 2016).
It is evaluated that individual could spend the US $ 19.3 Billion on the tourism for particular
London per year as it is a major amount of tourism. It is also founded that this place is one of
the imperative visited tourist destinations that offer a positive and beautiful experience to the
people who are visited in this place. It is evaluated that London should try to use more unique
things to attract more tourists and sustain their position in the tourism. It could be more
attractive as compared to another country (Brondoni, 2016).
It is essential for analysing the future trends of a tourism destination that trends in tourism
destinations should be evaluated from time to time. Future trends could be evaluated by
practicing statistical analysis of past trends regarding tourism destination (Glaesser, et. al.,
2017).
(Sources: Mohsin, et. al., 2016).

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Fig: representing past trends of tourism destination
As per the above-mentioned graph, it could be observed that the interest of people is
enhancing continuously at a higher rate with the time passing. Along with this, it is also
evaluated that people want to visit various tourist places for enjoying their vacation trip as
well as get the new experience of traveling. In the whole world, the UK is found as the eighth
biggest tourist destination that is analysed by using collected secondary data. In the travel and
tourism sector of the UK, approximately US $22.02 Billion money has spent by the tourist.
Hence, it is analysed that most earning source of UK is travel and tourism sector (Mohsin, et.
al., 2016).
In the above-mentioned figure, most visited cities of UK are demonstrated and as per this
figure, it could be depicted that among the all most visited cities of UK, one of the most
visited city is Edinburg. Due to the attractive amenities of travel and tourism in Edinburg
city, large numbers of people are visited of this city as a tourist destination. Along with this,
the second reason for attracting the people is the appealing infrastructure of Edinburg city.
This city is a historical and ancient tourist place that demonstrates the actual condition of
United Kingdom hence, this city influence more tourist of various countries for visiting
tourist places of the city (Veiga, et. al.,2017).
(Sources: Garau-Vadell, et. al., 2018).

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Future Prediction
On the basis of statistical assessment, it could be forecasted that travel and tourism sector of
UK would increase continuously at a higher range and government of UK is giving their
utmost efforts for making the tourism more appealing and more attractive. It could be
predicted that approximately 1.6 billion tourists from the different geographical region would
arrive in the UK for tourism purpose by the year 2020. It would support the UK to earn a
huge amount of profits from the travel and tourism sector. Hence, it would assist in
increasing the gross deposit rate (GDP) of the country at a higher rate (Boniface, et. al.,
2016).
Many attractive facilities are provided by the UK to their tourist and it could positively
influence a large number of tourists to enjoy their travel trip on the travel destinations of UK.
The country is offering low-cost and cheaper flights that could make the UK as the first
choice of tourist and they also recommend their known persons for visiting this place due to
their good travel experience of UK (Garau-Vadell, et. al., 2018).
Along with this, the UK government is hiring many private agencies of travel and tourism to
expand their travel and tourism business. In addition, a good transportation system is
improving by the country so that tourists could visit many tourist destinations in a shorter
period. Effective transportation makes the journey of people more convenient and memorable
so that tourist could gain unique experience towards tourism destinations of UK (Pratt, and
Liu, 2016).

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(Sources: Cornelissen, 2017).
Fig: demonstrating most visited cities of the UK
P2 Investigate the characteristics of key tourist-generating and receiving areas of the
world
TUI group can assess the social, cultural, and physical characteristics of generating the
tourists and receiving the areas at the global level. It helps the travel and tourism company for
assessing the business opportunities in different part at the global level. For service provider
such as TUI group, it is required that social, cultural and physical characteristics should be
considered hence, it can aid to develop the approaches as per the market requirements and
can also make sure that a large number of service users can use the services offered by the
group (Cornelissen, 2017).
Cultural Factors:
Tourism is a sector that focuses on different cultures and people belongs to different nation
gives preferences to follow their culture. In this sector, other people respect the culture that
they are considering. In the context of service providers such as TUI group, it is required that
the company will ensure the cultural concept of each individual and gives high priority to
them (Pulido-Fernández, and Rodríguez-Díaz, 2016). There are several ancient places existed

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in the UK that makes sure these places can remain maintained as it aids to comprehend the
culture of the the UK. Moreover, people who are coming in the UK be highly influenced by
museums and such kinds of historical places in order to increase their understanding about
the culture and history of the nation and can increase the new experience in their travel
diaries. On the other hand, the travel and tourism sector in Cuba emphasizes on beliefs as
well as, rituals that are coming from past (Kiráľová, and Pavlíčeka, 2015).
Economic Factors:
The economy of tourist destinations may directly influence the company in the travel and
tourism industry. It is required that the TUI group can develop the strategies as per the
variation in the economy of a nation where, it is making efforts to deal. It can be assessed that
economy of UK does not rely on the travel and tourism sector as well as, people of UK do not
depend on travel and tourism sector related to UK (Jamal, and Smith, 2017). Hence, it is
required for the TUI group to make sure the delivering influencing tour packages to
consumers. They can be influenced with respect to the tourism of the UK as well as, can
enjoy their traveling. In opposed to this, the economy of Cuba relies on tourism for which, it
becomes the accountability of TUI group for attracting the individual hence they can support
in managing the economy of Cuba and can support it to develop as well as grow (Holden,
2016).
Physical Factors:
The physical factor is the aspect that supports in influencing the individual of several nations
with respect to tourism destination. In addition, a physical factor of any nation supports in
assessing the beauty of it and creating the decision regarding whether the tourism experience
of that nation would be beneficial or not (Smith, and Ong, 2015).
The physical feature of the UK nation entails the infrastructure, transportation services,
entertainment industry, food, and historical sites. In contrast to this, Cuba has ancient places

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to travel that supports individual of other nations to gain experience regarding the culture of
Cuba and food facilities are beneficial that influences the individual from different nations
towards the Cuba (Assaf, et. al., 2019).
In the context of transportation services, certain changes would be made by Cuba hence;
people visiting in Cuba will not be affected because of transportation (Khalilzadeh, 2018).
Therefore, it can be illustrated that the TUI group should develop the strategies in accordance
with all aspects and will have to offer the facilities that do not exist in the nation. Such kind
of aspect would support the TUI group for influencing more individual with respect to its
services and would aid in sustaining the economic market for travel and tourism field (Edgell
Sr, 2015).
P3 Determine specific reasons for the growth of key global tourism generating and
receiving areas of the world
There are certain factors that support in attracting the tourists to influence them to visit the
tourism destinations. These factors are described below:
In the travel and tourism sector, different varieties of gains are used that are economic gains
and social gains. It is a very necessary aspect that Country should concentrate on the
beneficial features and characteristics of tourism to get assurance that a large number of
tourist are showing their interest in the tourism and travel sector (Assaf, et. al., 2019). In
addition, it could be supportive to get assurance that a huge number of people is influenced
for visiting the tourist spots and destinations and more preference is given to these places by
the tourists for enjoying their tourism trip.
In the UK, there is a tourism destination that is a most visited place in the group of the nation
is known as France and most of the tourist give more priority to this country for their
vacation trip. In France, almost 83 million tourist visits every year for their vacation trip or
tourism purpose and it increase the 10% GDP (gross domestic product) of this country. But at

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the same time, there are various negative factors are existed in the France which could have
an adverse impact on the travel and tourism sector of country (Gursoy, et. al., 2015). In order
to this, there is a most common negative aspect Paris attack that has more affected the
people’s mind towards the tourism planning in this nation. In this case, generally, people do
not prefer this type of tourist places for tourism purpose that is attacked by the terrorist group
or that is surviving in the unsafe and risky zone (Gunter, and Smeral, 2016).
There is a second most commonly known negative aspect is valuable food items. In France,
food products and edible items are very expensive that directly affect the budget and pocket
of the tourist which have reached there for tourism purpose. Fare of fights is another factor
that has a direct impact on the travel and tourism of France (Becken, and Shuker, 2019).
In Brazil, there is also a negative aspect that could affect the travel and tourism sector
effectively. Due to the lack of security in Brazil, the tourist does not feel safe to go there for
tourism purpose that could have a direct impact on the tourism business of the nation. Along
with this, it is also found that there is another aspect that could affect the tourism industry and
this factor is known as the availability of seafood (Gunter, and Smeral, 2016). Tourist who
does not like to have seafood, they could not make fun properly as they could not have proper
and desired food. Further, it is evaluated that Brazil could get more benefits from the tourism
sector by availing different varieties of food items to their tourists (Cao, et. al., 2017). Hence,
tourist that belongs to different countries could come there for their vacation trip.
P4 Compare and contrast the differences between a range of emerging global tourism
destinations in relation to stages of the destination life cycle, factors driving growth, and
strategies employed
Contrast and comparison among developing and leading tourist destination would support to
assess the difference amid service of aspect, which influences others to visit the tourism

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destinations. The comparison would support TUI group to outline effective understanding
regarding several approaches regarding tourism destination. It is described as given below:
Cuba United Kingdom
Cuba is a developing tourism destination that
depends on travel and tourism sector.
The UK is a developed destination of tourism
that avails several opportunities under the
travel and tourism sector.
Percentage of GDP that is contributed
through Cuba Travel, as well as the tourism
sector, is about 4.3%.
In the UK, GDP contributed 10.5% in the
travel and tourism sector.
There are different sites visited by travelers
in Cuba such as global heritage sites,
protected natural, national monuments, and
natural reserves sectors.
There are different sites to visit in the UK
such as infrastructures, historical monuments,
museums, the entertainment industry as well
as, various places.
Cuba is making efforts for developing the
travel and tourism sectors. It is also more
significant in terms of availing packages that
are more attractive. Along with, tourism
experience of an individual creates a positive
impact on those people who makes planning
to travel with a different part at the global
level (Gursoy, et. al., 2015).
The UK has created every aspect that can
help an individual in increasing the new and
different tourism experience (Assaf, et. al.,
2019).
About 3 million of the individual comes in
Cuba for traveling intention in each year.
About 34.4 million individuals have visited
the UK with the intention of traveling.
In Cuba, the traveler can get traveling
services at a cheap rate.
In the UK, travel, and tourism is expensive.