Cultural, Social, and Physical Features: UK vs. India Tourism Analysis

This report provides an analysis of the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations, comparing the United Kingdom (a leading destination) and India (a developing destination). It highlights the cultural factors such as food, literature, and customs; social factors including lifestyle and dressing; and physical features like landscapes and historical monuments in both countries. The report contrasts the developed tourism infrastructure of the UK with the developing infrastructure in India, noting differences in tourist arrivals, geographical area, and popular attractions. Key cultural elements such as literature, music, and festivals are also compared, providing a comprehensive overview of the distinct characteristics of each destination.

Tourist Destination

AC 2.1 Analysis of cultural, social and physical features of tourist
destinations
 Cultural Factor
 Social Factor
 Physical Factor

Cultural Factor
 UK: Food, literature, music, theatre and
cinema
 India: Custom, religions, rituals, festivals
and languages

Social Factor
 UK: Western lifestyle, attitude, behaviour
and dressing
 India: Fairs and diverse dressing

Physical Features
 UK: Mountains, Landscapes, flora and
fauna, sand dunes
 India: Forts, Ancient things, temples,
historical monuments

AC 2.2 Comparison between the features of developing and leading tourist
destinations
 UK is one of the leading tourist destination whereas
Indian tourism is developing tourist destination.
 The features and attributes of the UK tourism is
different from the features of the Indian tourist
destinations.
 UK is a developed country and due to this its
tourist-attractions are more effective and good as
compare to the India (developing nation).

Comparision between UK and
India
Leading Destination (United Kingdom) Developing destination (India)
It stands at rank 8 among the tourist
destinations of world. This shows that
people likes to visit tourist destinations of
UK more as compare to the other nations.
It stands at rank 23 among the 141 nations
of the world. Government needs to
improve its tourism destinations for
increasing the number of visits and visitors
as well.
It is famous for museums, art gallerias,
architecture, castles and man made
buildings (Kytzia, Walz and Wegmann,
2011).
It is popular for customs, rich history,
heritage, religions, languages, rituals, fairs
and festivals, forts and culture
Approximate 34.4 million people visits the
UK in 2014 which is continuously
increasing with time and changing
requirements of the tourists
Around 22.57 million tourists arrived in
India in the year of 2014 which is higher
as compare to the 2013 arrivals (19.95
million)

It covers 241,930 sq km geographical area
with the population of 63.23 million.
Longest river is Severn and longest lake is
Lough Neagh
It is situated in the southern Asia with the
bordering of Arabian sea and Bay of
Bengal. The area covers by it is 3287263 sq
km. Longest river is Ganga and longest
lake is Chilka Lake
Tourist destinations include London Eye,
tower of London, Big Ben, British
Museum, Windor Castle, Canterbury
Cathedral, historic Old Portsmouth,
Wembley stadium, Durham Cathedral,
Stonehenge, seaside resorts (Brighton),
Cambridge, etc (Top 10 English Tourist destinations,
2015)
Tourist destinations are Taj Mahal, Red
Fort, sandakphu, caves of Meghalaya,
Khajuraho temple, Kailasa Temple, Rani ki
vav, Bactrian Camel ride, Munshi Ghat,
Houseboat, City palaces of Udiapur, etc
(Tamang, 2014).
The culture of UK includes literature such
as Celtic languages, Old English literature,
recent English Literature (William
Shakespeare, John Milton, etc). On the
other hand West End is the major theatre
district of UK. Music includes patriotic
songs, folk music, Christmas carols, RMS
titanic music and many more (Tortella and
Tirado, 2011).
Its culture include greetings, festival of
Karthigai, Bhaiya Duj, Raakhi, holi, diwali,
Navratri, Maha Shivratri, Ganesh
Chaturthi, Dussehra, Makar Sankranti,
Pongal, Ugadi Bihu, Vishu and many more.

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