Comparative Analysis of Tourist Destinations: UK and China

This report provides a comparative analysis of the UK and China as tourist destinations, examining factors that affect their appeal. The introduction highlights the importance of tourism for cultural development. The report then compares the two destinations based on popularity, culture, and infrastructure, also considering changes in visitor numbers. It further explores how characteristics such as economic, physical, social, and political factors influence a destination's attractiveness to tourists. The analysis includes a discussion of economic impacts, infrastructure quality, social aspects like quality of life, and political elements such as government stability and international relations. The report concludes with a list of references.

Tourist Destination
TASK 3

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Compare the appeal of current leading tourist
destinations
 Characteristics of a tourist destination affect
its appeal
 References

Introduction
Tourist are the person who move out for visiting another
countries every nation have some speciality, heritage
and culture of their own tourist are the one who are
reason for development and growth of culture and
heritage.

Compare the appeal of current leading
tourist destinations
There are two destinations which are being taken and
they both have same features but are different from
UK and China and there comparison is being
described below:
 Popularity
 Culture
 Infrastructure
 Change in visitors numbers

Contd..
Basis UK China
Popularity This can be stated as one of
the largest destinations
across the globe which has
approx 28.1 million (approx)
travellers per year.
It is located in the Continent
of Asia and has been
ranked on the 5th position for
sustainability in
environment.
Culture There is huge variety of
literature and they mainly
reflects the multi ethnic
make up of its population
and thus is being designed
by the diversity.
China offers for the visitor
who are searching for
colourful vacationer goal
which have shorelines and
flaura and fauna.
Infrastructure UK has one of the finest
range of infrastructure and
compared to other
countries.
This country has low
transportation system as
compared to UK.
Change In Visitors
Number
100,000 4,800,000

Characteristics of a tourist destination
affect its appeal
Europe and Asia both are growing nation according to current
scenario this will help in reducing poverty because of providing
employment to unemployed people. It is essential for country to
attract visitors by improving living standard of people, beside of
this, social factor include health and safety of individual if
country is hygienic and safe then more and more people
encourage to visit these kind of places.

Contd..
There are some factor are explained below:-
 Economic impact
 Physical characteristics
 Social characteristics
 Political characteristics

Contd..
Economic impact: condition of every country play vital
role in various manner same as economic condition
also gives its direct effect on customers purchasing
power.
Physical characteristics: physical characteristics of a
place can be understood as the quality of
infrastructure, availability of clean water, food,
sanitation facilities, transportation and communication
facilities are the basic needs of every person and for
tourism industry.

Contd..
Social Characteristics: quality of life, pressure of
population, literacy levels also creates an impact over
the appeal by a tourist destination. UK is a place where
the quality of life is suitable and the literacy level is
also high.
Political Characteristics: forms of government, the
level of corruption taking place at the tourist
destination, international links and using tourism as a
political tool also affects the appeal of a tourist
destination.

References
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