BTEC HND Travel and Tourism: Tourist Destinations Assignment Report

This report examines various tourist destinations, focusing on their economic and political characteristics, and how these factors influence their appeal. The report begins with an introduction highlighting the growth of the travel and tourism industry and its significance. It then delves into the economic and political characteristics of selected destinations, including the influence of a nation's economy on its tourism infrastructure and the role of governmental bodies like the British Tourist Authority. The report further evaluates the impact of social, economic, political, and physical characteristics on a destination's attractiveness. Finally, it concludes by emphasizing the importance of a balanced approach to tourism development. References to key academic sources are also included, providing a foundation for the report's analysis.

Tourist destination

Table of contents
 Introduction
 Economic and political characteristic of selected destinations
 Evaluate how characteristics of a tourist destination affect
its appeal
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
In present scenario, travel and tourism industry is rapidly growing
over the world. Every year several number of people visit to come
UK for personal and professional purpose.
In addition, British government has also pay attention as well as
recognition to tourism industry for economic development.
The report is going to be described different tourists destinations of
UK in order to assess the trends in tourist destinations.
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Economic and political characteristic of
selected destinations
Economic characteristic - Economy of any nation is highly
responsible in deciding the inflow of tourists. Infrastructure of
the tourist destinations will be better in all the countries
having stronger economies.

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Political characteristics British Tourist Authority and English
Tourist Council have merged to form new entity named Visit
Britain. This organization also helps in promoting the tourism in
the country.
Apart from this, political condition of CUBA is quite flexible as its
government easily provides visa and other necessary documents
to foreigners so as to increase the number of visitors in their
country.

Evaluate how characteristics of a tourist
destination affect its appeal
• Social characteristics
 Economical
characteristics
 Political characteristics
 Physical characteristics

Conclusion
• From the above mentioned report, it has been carried that
tourism industry is grown up by bounds and leads in past few
decades; however the growth also contains numerous issues
which are come up as per the time changes.
• Thus it is vital for the tourism companies to guarantee that
appropriate consideration ought to be given by implementing a
balanced approach of tourism advancement.

References
Hannam, K., Butler, G. and Paris, C. M., 2014. Developments and key issues
in tourism mobilities. Annals of Tourism Research. 44. pp.171-185.
Hartmann, R., 2014. Dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage
tourism management: new directions in contemporary tourism research.
Journal of Heritage Tourism. 9(2). pp.166-182.
Kim, J. H. and Ritchie, J. B., 2014. Cross-cultural validation of a memorable
tourism experience scale (MTES). Journal of Travel Research. 53(3).
pp.323-335.

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