BTEC HND Unit 9 Travel & Tourism: Factors Affecting Destinations

This report explores the appeal of leading tourist destinations, focusing on the characteristics that affect their popularity. It highlights the importance of economic and physical characteristics in attracting tourists, using the UK and France as examples. The report discusses factors influencing tourist numbers, including cultural events, skiing, and negative aspects like safety concerns. It also references academic sources on tourist destination governance and digital challenges in destination branding. This assignment, contributed by a student, is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and resources for students.

Tourism destinations
(Task 3)

Table of content
 Introduction
 Appeal of leading tourist destinations
 Characteristics of tourist destinations affect its appeal
 References

Introduction
Tourism is considered as one of the most important aspect of
economy of every country and that's why it is very essential
for for countries to understand what tourism actually means.
Various activities like travel form one place to another with
the purpose of recreation, entertainment and for any other
causal reason is come under tourism.

Appeal of leading tourist destinations
It is very essential for a
business analyst to identify
and analyse all the aspected
related with the field in
which he is working.

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Analysis of statistical data and various aspects related with travel
and tourism sector could be determined that this one of the of
the most leading factor of UK which attract large number of
tourists every year.

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Main features which make a tourist destination a popular one includes the
following:
Economic characteristics: Economic growth and development of a country
play a crucial role in influence large number of visitors in that destination.
Physical characteristics: One of the main feature of UK is that it has
adequate amount of resources which make the country capable to deliver
effective services to large number of tourists.

Characteristics of tourist destinations affect
its appeal
Number of tourists affected towards a tourist destination due to
existence of various characteristics. It is very important every
destination muse have features so number of visitors could be
attracted.

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One of the benefit available in tourism sector is various
economic and social gains. In order to influence more number
of individuals it is very essential for country to focus on
features of tourist destination so number of tourists can be
increased.

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France is one of the most popular and visited tourist destination
of UK. From the help of research it is analysed that more than
80 million people visited France with then purpose of
tourism.

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Main reason why people visit France is for cultural events and
skiing. Some negative aspects related with the tourism of
France is expensive food and Paris attacks.

References
Laws, E., 2011. Tourist destination governance: Practice, theory
and issues. Cabi.
Oliveira, E. and Panyik, E., 2015. Content, context and co-
creation: Digital challenges in destination branding with
references to Portugal as a tourist destination. Journal of
Vacation Marketing. 21(1). pp.53-74.

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