Worldwide Tourist Destinations: Trends, Analysis, and Impacts

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of global tourist destinations, examining their economic impact, visitor statistics, and future trends. It begins by identifying major tourist destinations and generators of income, such as France and the USA, and analyzes statistical data to predict future trends in the tourism sector. The report then delves into the cultural, social, and physical features of tourist destinations, exploring how these characteristics influence visitor appeal, and compares selected destinations. Furthermore, it assesses the economic and political characteristics of tourist destinations, examining how these factors affect visitor appeal. The report also addresses issues affecting the popularity of tourist destinations and the role of responsible tourism in sustaining their appeal. The analysis considers the impact of various factors, including physical, social, and cultural elements, on the appeal of destinations to visitors. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and insights gained from the analysis of global tourist destinations and their evolving dynamics.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Main tourist destinations and generators of World in terms of income and tourist numbers.
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1.2 Statistics related with tourist destination trends and predict future trends.......................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Cultural, social and physical features of tourist destination and appeals of visitors........5
2.2 Comparison of selected destination with leading visitors attraction................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Economic and political characteristics of designated tourist destination.........................7
3.2 Effects of various characteristics like social, economical, political aspects on appeal to
visitors....................................................................................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 Issues affecting the popularity of tourist destination in nation.........................................8
4.2 Responsible tourism contributing in sustaining appeal of designated destination...........9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Tourist destinations are very rich source of income generation for the country’s economic
growth. This largely contributes in increasing the profitability of tourism industry and ultimately,
in strengthening economic condition of nation. The tourist destination can be divided into two
types i.e. visitors generating or receiving depending upon the ability to push or pull traveller
towards the specific and selected destination or location.
In this particular report, four tasks are assigned to analyse the trends of tourism prevailing
worldwide and access various growth opportunities to tourism sector. Person is able to collect
from this study statistical information related with tourist generating and attracting destination.
This evaluates the scope of respective sited industry. This report also discusses about cultural
and social values of various destination which are source of large numbers of visitors. It also
briefs about various characteristics of the the visitors location which influence appeal to tourists.
In last part of the assignment various issues affecting the popularity of location and popular
tourist destination which are accumulating large number of visitors.
TASK 1
1.1 Main tourist destinations and generators of World in terms of income and tourist numbers.
Tourist attraction places are the destinations which are able to attract a large number of
visitors towards location. The main generators to the tourist industry is the locations or places
which are contributing in higher income generation for the respective industry as well as for the
country. Tourist receiver nations are the countries in which large number of visitors activities can
be observed and travellers from various parts of the world like to choose these destinations to
explore their travelling experiences and interests. Like, for an example: if people are choosing
Spain or Singapore to make overseas visits then these locations can be called as tourist receiving
attraction and destinations which are contributing in the economic growth of nation as well as to
profitability of travel and tourism industry. These locations hence can also be denoted as
generators of world with respect to the number of visitors and increased income.
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France is one of the most visited places of the world every year. This country is the major
generator destination in the travel industry’s profitability and is enable in attracting highest
number of travellers from all over the world every year. Paris tourism is dealing with
approximately 76.8 million people making visits to the destination every year.
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Illustration 1: Top Tourist attracting destination, 2014
Source 1: WENDY VEN-DEE HUANG. 2014. International tourism data: top destinations,
number of arrivals, and more.
Illustration 2: Tourist generating destination, 2017
Source 2: Tourism statistics. 2017

Tourist generating countries are the nations which are having large number of capable
people who are able to spend their income and money on travelling to global destinations. Like
for instance the countries from which traveller are coming to visitors receiving location or nation
is known as generates of tourism or visitors generating nations. The people belonging from
Germany is having higher spending ability and contribute in the profitability of travel and
tourism industry. The Germany people leading devastation of world are largely engaged making
various internal holiday to spend leisures time and explore their travelling interest.
The income generating countries are the places which are largely making profit from the
tourism activities and contributing in building up the nation economic. As per data, USA is the
most income generating nation from the travel and tourism industry. The sited nation is earning
are highest in comparison to other country from travel industry. While is accumulating highest
numbers of tourist in travelling sector. The reason behind the to be main tourist receiving
destination is that it is in the top list of fashion industry. The nations has also gained excellence
in the architecture designs over the time period during its historical development. This also
contribute in the higher capability of accounting large numbers of visitors in the . USA is
positioned at second position in terms of attracting high numbers of tourist. The reason for this
particular position of USA industry can be because for more geographical distance from the
major tourist generating nations or places of the world. Due to this geographical gap the tourist
more prefer to travel in as compared to USA. While UK holds 6th position in relation to the
countries accumulating large numbers of visitors in their various visitors attracting destinations.
In relation with the tourist generating country Germany is at first positions as the people
are having large disposable income as compared to in other nation of world. The Germany is
leading or major visitors generating nation. The sited nation is having greatest and strongest
economy in Europe with upholding the 4th largest economy in world. While United state is
positioned at first number in relation to the largest economy or most strengthened economic
condition in world is placed under second position in terms of largest tourist generating
locations. UK is ranked at 4th position in relation with comprising tourist pushing capability with
having approximately 39604 dollars per capita income in country. The UK people are spending
their high income in lifestyle and better leisure activities. This is also evidenced that UK
government is largely motivating the tourist generation from nation by providing granted holiday
for 28 days to per human resource.
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Comparison London Paris
Visitors 16 million visitors annually 14 million tourist every year
Top attractions Top attraction in London Big
Ben, London eye
Paris attractions are Eiffel tower,
Louvre Museum
Restaurant 190 McDonald services in
London
66 Mc Donald restaurant
Games 131 football club in London 15 football club in Paris
Income generators 16,09 billion US Dollars 12,03 billion US dollars
Visitors profile Business meetings, students,
recreational activities.
Recreational visitors, students.
Tourism generator
countries
China, UK Germany, France etc.
1.2 Statistics related with tourist destination trends and predict future trends.
From the last decades it can be evidenced that the tourism sector is growing high pace
scale. This particular sector is making huge amount of profit from tourist services. Countries are
involved in various type of tourism activities like visitors generating and receiving destination
which are developing huge contribution of economic growth for nations. The travel industry is
shown a high peak in growth from last few years due to increase in disposable income, of people
as well as changing trends in marketplace as people love to visitors different destination in
overseas in order to spend their higher income or explore their different interests. Paris, UK,
USA, Italy, Germany, are most responsibly active in nation in various kind of tourism activities
contributing in economic growth of countries.
As per the observation made on developing trends in the UK tourism this can be
evidenced that country is enhancing their tourist activities in many fold. The number of visitors
in country various destination are increasing day by day (Oppewal, Huybers and Crouch, 2015).
The country is accomplishing large number of global tourist which are coming to explore their
experiences of travelling in UK cities. The London UK destination is most visited place in UK
annually. About 16.7 million tourist visited London every year as per statistical data collected in
2013 year and this is followed up to Edinburgh and Manchester which are serving to about 14.2
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million and to approximately 9.11 million visitors respectively. UK is responsibly active in
providing better quality services to visitors through their travel and tourism activities and
enhancing their satisfaction level through providing satisfaction environment to travel again and
again (Sartori, Mottironi and Corigliano, 2012). The London is most travelled destination of UK
as the city is having various types of visitors attraction places to attract the large numbers of
traveller with having wide range of interest. London is having various educational institutes,
historic monument, business hub and many other. Most famous visitors attraction is London Eye
which is most visited place by the large number of tourist coming from overseas to spend their
holiday in London. Addition to this the government of UK is continuously engaged in promoting
various tourism activities in order to contribute in generating higher revenue for the respective
industry and ultimately strengthening the economy of the country (López-Toro, Díaz-Muñoz and
Perez-Moreno, 2010). Further more enhancing the spending power of the UK people and
contributing in their better life style also results in increasing the profitability for the tourism
industry.
As evidenced that Olympic and Paralympics enhanced the tourism activities in many
foals. At this peak time the various companies engaged in travel and industry generated huge
amount of profit and doubled and tripled there revenues. Olympic and Paralympic games attracts
large numbers of traveller in the UK. So, these trends can be profitable move for the tourism
industry profitability in nation. UK can be also engaged in such activities in future too contribute
in travel and tourism industry and enchaining the nation economy. At this peak time about 32
million people visited London. Out of total travel 18 million people are from overseas countries
and contribute largely in the various sources of revenue generation from foreign income. The
international origin people are largely contributing to the revenue generation of UK. These trends
can be followed by different nation in order to sustainable growth of industry and as well as
country.
Latin America is one of the major tourist generating nations with capturing ability of
about 9.5% of market shares This position is followed by Asia which captured about 8.2% of the
market shares of travel industry. The African country are promoting trends of eco tourism and
cultural travelling activities. While the various nations of Asia is engaged in promoting their
heritage value, cultures, and architectural excellence like Dubai, Thailand, Japan, Thailand,
Malaysia etc. These trends can be followed by other nations in workplace too is that they can
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contribute effective amount to the travel industry by exploiting current trends of tourism sector
(Oliveira and Panyik, 2015).
TASK 2
2.1 Cultural, social and physical features of tourist destination and appeals of visitors.
The various cultural and physical, economical characteristics of tourist destination largely
contribute in affecting appeal of tourism to visitors. There are various features of the tourism
industry which are influencing visitors choices and motivational level to visitors are as follows:
Physical: London is visited by about 16.7 million people every year. This huge influx of
visitors in the tourist destination largely influence the physical beauty of the destination. The
increase tourism activities can be good or bad for country. This good one aspects of tourism
industry growth is that government plays more attention in maintaining the physical structure of
the tourist destination like renovation of historic building or developing proper transportation
facilities in area. Like for instance due to large number of traveller in London may negatively
affects the physical appearances of the destination and also huge human interferences leads to
change physical composition of land etc.
Social: The social values plays important role in affect appeal of an tourist. Like for
instance a person wanting to develop a research on medical then he will prefer to go in such
society where medical research can be done city like Brahms (Kim, Eves and Scarles, 2013).
While a student appeal of tourism will be place of social values who are promoting student like
Venire.
Cultural: The tourism sector is having great influence on the activities of this respective
firm. There are some positive effect or negative effect which influence the appeal of traveller.
The various positive point of the cultural characteristic of the travel industry is that this is
involved in increasing the cultural values of society and engaged in sharing and promoting
culture prevailing in nation. This also results in sharing of cultures with other guest people. Due
to increased tourist activities in a particular destination results in altering the cultural values
prevailing with destination from longer time to changes and modernisation in location.
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2.2 Comparison of selected destination with leading visitors attraction.
Tourist destination Leading destination UK:
LONDON
Developing destination
PARIS
Historical and cultural Values This particular destination is
engaged in celebrating various
festivals in order to motivate
the cultural values in tourist
destination also. The London
is established various
museums which helps in
motivating the traveller to
make visitors in destination by
providing more than one
reason for making travel
decisions.
The food and music of Paris
both reflects the cultural values
of country. These particular
aspects of Paris will promote
the tourist activities in the
nation in many folds.
Social Factors The social values of the
London states that the people
and services provider are
always concerned about the
accomplishment of all needs of
customers and providing them
a satisfying experience of
travelling to the visitors.
The Paris society people
follows party mood in their
daily routine life so they are
more happy. Same culture is
reflected in tourist destination
and help in developing higher
appeal of tourist.
Physical Aspects The London is having great
aspects from flora and fauna to
increase the tourism activities.
While another physical aspects
of the nation is that
destinations are having good
transportation and
While Paris is also focusing in
developing physical aspects of
the tourist destination in order
to enhance the tourism in
country. The nations is
engaged in developing
electronic area to serve better
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Tourist destination Leading destination UK:
LONDON
Developing destination
PARIS
communication facilities. services to visitors.
The world top most destination is compared by the UK destination and made a
recommendation on the basis of it. This is the main tool that are used by the firm in order to
compare in an effective manner. However, with the help of these, company can compare
effectively.
TASK 3
3.1 Economic and political characteristics of designated tourist destination.
United Kingdom is the one of the major visitors attraction serving tourism services to
about 28.1 million tourists annually in order accomplish their various travelling needs. While
Paris is a place which is ranked as 5th position in relation with the natural environment
sustainability. The various tourist destination which will attract large numbers of visitors in
Paris are like Moulin Rouge, Conciergerie, Champs-Elysées, Centre Pompidou, Notre Dame de
Paris, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, etc. both the visitors attraction i.e. London and Paris are having
wide range of biodiversity and landscape which will attract the tourist who loves natural places
to make travel plans. Paris is appealing the couple traveller more as the location is having
beautiful beaches, flora and fauna with privacy places this will help in more enjoyable and
memorable holidays for the couples. While the destination is the UK are appealing for the tourist
are having different needs other than romantic places, privacy etc. The travellers of UK or
London are looking for The British Isles, Lake District and Scottish mountain etc. UK visitors
attraction are appealing the customer because of the variances in literature like from Byron,
Shakespeare and Milton while Paris is appealing for Spanish visitors (Lee, Lee and Lee, 2014).
3.2 Effects of various characteristics like social, economical, political aspects on appeal to
visitors.
There are many tourist destination aspects which largely affects their appeal to the tourist.
Some of the characteristics which are affecting the visitors attraction appeal to traveller are as
follows: Political factors: Insatiability in political environment and higher rate of crime in the
nation will reduce the capability to appeal for higher number of tourism activities. Due to
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terrorist attack in London results in decreased tourist activities and ultimately negatively
affects the growth of tourism industry (Kim, Eves and Scarles, 2013). Sociocultural factors: The social and cultural values largely supports the tourism
activities in country and the appeal of destination is high to the visitors in nation.
 Economic factors: These also largely affecting the development of travel industry in the
location. The nation having good economical condition and have money to invest to
server better services to the people then this will increase the appeal of destination in
country to their visitors.
TASK 4
4.1 Issues affecting the popularity of tourist destination in nation.
There are many issues which are affecting the appeal of tourist destination towards its
customers (Chen, Shang and Li, 2014). These factors may negatively affects the attraction
popularity of an location or it may foster the appeal influence to the visitors decision making
relation with travel plan and arrangement:
Currency fluctuation: The changers in currency rate affects the development of tourist
activity in the nation to a large extent. The country having lower currency prices will be having
high tourism appeal. While the countries where the travelling services are costly will negatively
affects the growth of respective industry.
Terrorist attack: This is the one of the major issue which largely affects the popularity of
an tourist destination. As people first prefer security of themselves and their families in
comparison to their needs of travelling. So, nations with increased tourism attack will be having
decreased appeal to visitors activities (Oppewal, Huybers and Crouch, 2015).
Climatic changes: While the changes in the climatic condition may hinders or foster the
travelling activities. As good climate will motivate a person to visitors beautiful places specially
natural destination. While natural disaster will reacts the growth of tourism industry in nation.
4.2 Responsible tourism contributing in sustaining appeal of designated destination.
The responsible tourism is an approach in order to enhance the sustainability in tourism
sector. This particular approach will increase the effectiveness in the services and also reduce the
negative impact of various sociological, political, economical, environmental and cultural
aspects which are restricting travel activities in country. The responsible tourism involves all the
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related stakeholder with travel sector in order to act responsibly in the industry and contribute in
providing better satisfaction to visitors and enhancing the appeal of destination to large numbers
of travellers from overseas. This particular approach will helps in sustaining the appeal of
destination or specific location in minds of visitors for longer duration of time and ultimately
contribute in profitability of industry as well as strengthening the country economy.
CONCLUSION
This can be concluded from the above report that tourist destination is the location which
are having capability to attract large numbers of people toward the location in order to contribute
in increased revenue generation for responsiveness industry. These places are responsibly
working in order to enhance the appeal to tourist to motivate them for making travel
arrangements for selected location. The London is most visitors tourist destination In UK. While
Paris is comprises of largest numbers of travellers in nation and USA is higher revenue
generating company from the tourism industry. The tourism industry is continuously engaged in
sustainable development of the sector in order to become major revenue generator business
sector in nation. The various issues in the working business environment largely affects the
growth of respective industry. All the stakeholders of tourism industry should act responsibly in
order to increase the sustainability of destination as well as sustaining appeal for location for
longer duration.
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