Tourism Report: Comparing Tourist Destinations and Issues

This report provides an in-depth analysis of tourist destinations, focusing on factors influencing their appeal. It begins by comparing leading and developing tourist destinations, specifically examining economic and political characteristics. The report then evaluates how various factors, such as publicity, crime rates, and economic elements, affect the tourism industry, using the United Kingdom as a case study. It highlights the importance of understanding a destination's cultural, social, and physical features to develop appropriate infrastructure and services. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the role of tourism in economic development.

TOURIST DESTINATION

TABLE OF CONTENT
TOPIC SLIDE NUMBER
COMPARING THE APPEAL OF
LEADING TOURIST DESTINATION
WITH THE DEVELOPING TOURIST
DESTINATION.
3
EVALUATE HOW CHARACTERISTICS
OF A TOURIST DESTINATION
AFFECT ITS APPEAL.
4
CONCLUSION 6
REFRENCES 8

3.1 COMPARING THE APPEAL OF LEADING
TOURIST DESTINATION WITH THE
DEVELOPING TOURIST DESTINATION.
The comparison between leading destination
with developing tourist destination on basis of
certain characteristics are as follows:
Economic Characteristics of leading and
developing tourist destination.
 Economic growth and development
 Physical characteristics
 Political characteristics

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Comparison between leading and developing tourist destinations are as follows:
Basis of difference France Nepal
Flag
Attraction points  Eiffel tower
 Louvre Museum
 Palace of Versailles
 Mont Saint-Michel
 Loire Valley
Châteaux
 Provence.
 Cathédrale Notre-
Dame de Chartres.
 Swayambhunath
 Trekking in the
Langtang Region
 Chitwan National
Park
 Trekking in the
Annapurna Region
 Pokhara

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Map of France

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Map of Nepal

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Statistics pertaining to tourism in France

3.2 EVALUATE HOW CHARACTERISTICS OF A
TOURIST DESTINATION AFFECT ITS APPEAL.
 In order to compare the characteristics of a tourist destination which affect its
appeal to the tourist visiting that particular place below mentioned factors needs to
be considered:
 Publicity and sales promotion is one of the vital factors which can have positive as
well as negative impact on the tourism industry in the country.
 Crime rate decide tourist flow in present age and United Kingdom is among safest
country in terms of crime.
 In order to enhance product life cycle in United Kingdom there is high level of
involvement
 In order to enhance product life cycle in United Kingdom there is high level of
involvement for the authorities to provide better services to tourist such as
information centre, maps and current locations etc

CONTINUE.
Economic elements can make negative impact on the tourism industry in UK as
increasing inflation, adverse exchange rates and ever increasing cost of infrastructure
would reduce their investment in key areas such as healthcare and education.
Political instability, terrorism attacks and riots are among major threats in UK
which may lead to lower level of growth in tourism industry
Over commercialization for the resorts and other buildings in London may lead to
negative impact on tourism industry in United Kingdom

CONCLUSION
By summing up the above report it can be concluded that, tourism is an important
sector which contributes in economic development of a company. There are many
aspects which leads to attract customer in country. The report has been prepared to
gain understanding of UK and worldwide destinations, their cultural, social and
physical features, their characteristics and issues affecting their popularity. Present
report has discussed that it is very important that the cultural, social and physical
features of tourist destinations need to be studied and thus the facilities, services and
the infrastructure needs to be developed harnessing the important characteristics of the
tourist destination.

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