UK and Thailand Tourism Destinations: A Comparative Feature Analysis

This report provides an overview of tourism destinations, with a specific focus on the United Kingdom and a comparison with Thailand. It defines a tourism destination as a place visited by tourists to enjoy its cultural, exhibited, inherent, natural, and historical beauty. The report explores social, cultural, and physical features that make these destinations appealing, such as the UK's rich cultural heritage including monuments, museums, and festivals, and its diverse physical landscapes. It further compares features of leading destinations like the UK with developing ones like Thailand, analyzing aspects such as architecture, education systems, cuisine, and language. The report references various sources to support its analysis, providing a comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence tourism.

Tourism Destination

Introduction
Tourism destination can be defined as the place where a tourist
visits to enjoy its cultural, exhibited, inherent, natural and
historical beauty. It can also be defined as the physical place with
or without analytical or administrative boundaries where visitors
and tourist spend their holidays. The aim of the report is to have
understanding regarding UK and various destinations.

2.1 Social, cultural and physical features of
tourist destinations
Many different kinds of features like social, cultural and physical
are there at the tourism destination places which help in making
appeal to tourists. These features can be explained as:
Cultural Features:
Culture of the UK has influence of UK's history as a successful
island country, its religious Christian life, a major power and
liberal democracy.

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Main cultural resources of the UK are monuments, museums,
festivals, churches, music, drink, food etc. Heritage sites
include Jurassic coast, Tower of London, Westminster etc.
British museum and Madame Tussauds is one of the most
famous museums in London. Cultural resources of China are
Buddhist temples, monuments etc.

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Physical Features:
UK comprises of different physical landscapes like coastline,
geology of lakes, mountains, flora and fauna, beaches etc. UK
is blessed with all types element of nature. China has various
waterfalls, lakes and different landscapes that attract
customers.

2.2 Features of leading and developing tourist
destination
Issues UK Thailand
Pubs It is the discotheque
where people cheers
and cherish
different moments
by raising toast.
In the Thai term,
Pub refers to the
'Public House'.

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Issues UK Thailand
Architecture It offers a great
interior with superb
serenity.
The exteriors of
Thailand are
ornamented with
different scriptures
which tell manifold
stories of Thailand.

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Issues UK Thailand
School Systems There is not much
strict education in
city.
The vision of
Thailand is to
educate each and
every person of the
country.
Cuisine There is a trend of
steamed food in this
country.
There is a trend of
having curry types
food.

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Issues UK Thailand
Language English is the
official language
which now is a
modern language.
Influence of Asian
Dialects is there on
Thai language.
Spoken Language English, Scottish,
Scots , Welsh Burmese and Thai

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