Visitor Attraction Management: Developing Tourist Places in London

This report provides an overview of visitor attraction management, focusing on the processes and potential issues involved in developing tourist destinations. It examines key procedures such as project management feasibility, destination design, local community involvement, planning applications, and customer care. The report also identifies critical issues that can impact visitor attraction development, including location, capital/funding, the availability of tourism consultants, and the influence of tourism organizations and frameworks. Examples from the Albert Museum and the National Park of London are used to illustrate these concepts. The report emphasizes the importance of addressing these issues to attract a higher number of visitors and ensure the successful development of tourist attractions. References to academic sources are included to support the analysis.

VISITOR
ATTRACTION
MANAGEMENT

Discussing processes as well as potential issues
included under the development of attracting
visitors
 At the time of developing the tourist places in order to attract
higher number of visitors several kinds of procedures and
issues considered by the management.
 At the current study Albert museum and national park of
London are developed by the manager of tourists where
specific process and problems involved which are explained
as below:

Procedure: Project management
feasibility
 It is highly necessary to do study and analyse about
the feasibility of the visitors that up to which level
they will be attract towards the museum and
national park.
 With the help of doing study on the feasibility of
project management the tourists places can be
develop in proper manner.

Design of destination
 At the time of attracting visitors, design and
location of the destination and place must be highly
effectual.
 When the places are designed in better ways, then it
will be the most attractive for the visitors which is
sign of increasing their number at the part and
museum.
 Moreover, design must be attractive and effectual of
touristy places.

Involvement of local community
 At the time developing the tourist attraction,
involvement of the people of country must be
required for the management.
 If they will not include in the every step or phase of
the development then, fruitful outcomes cannot
derived.

Planning applications
 There are various number of applications and
softwares are used by the people which lead to
provide all the information about specific place.
 Further, the tourist management of London has to
use and plan the application which helps to develop
their attraction and affects in positive ways.

Customer care
 Every visitor concerns that, company will provide
services of customer care which helps to resolve any
issues arisen.
 Due to giving proper and effective guidance along
with solving problems by customer care, visitor will
be attract in more number.

Issues or problems arisen under visitor
attraction development
Location
 Very basic problem which affects to the visitor
attraction development is location as it is highly
concerned for the tourists.
 When the location of the destination will be
effectual and easy to reachable by any transportation
way then visitors will attract highly.
 On the other side, tourist location is very outside and
people cannot reach smoothly, then it creates issue
for development of the tourist attraction.

Capital or funding
 At the time of developing the places, money or
capital having very important place because due to
lack of fund the management cannot make any kind
of development.
 Local, regional or European Union when not allow
the places for providing fund adequately then it
becomes major issue.

Consultants of tourism
 Due lack of availability of the consultants and
guiders of tourism, development of visitor
destination affects in the negative ways.
 When proper guidelines are not assessed that how
and in which ways tourists attraction have to
develop then effective development hamper up to
the higher extent.

Tourism organisation or framework
 There are several authority party like national,
international etc. have different laws and rules about
the tourism which lead to affect to the development.
 In order to make modifications and changes in any
of the policy or rules then overall development
affects up to the highest level.

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