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Tourist Destinations &
Generators of world
• Tourist destination is the place or country where tourists like
to travel and visit.
• While tourist generator is the place or country from where
tourist belongs to or coming from
• The maximum number of visitors travels to France.
• UK falls at 8th position in terms of number of visitors.
• UK stands in third position in terms of trips and in fourth
position in terms of spending at global level.
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Tourism in UK
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Rank of Countries in Terms
of Spending and Trips
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Tourism Destination Trends
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Tourism Destination Trends
• London is popular city for tourism and
mostly visited for its popular
destinations such as the Tower of
London, Buckingham Palace, British
Museum, The London Eye
• Apart from London, Edinburg is also a
popular city in UK for visits. It is popular
for its National Museum of Scotland,
Royal Yacht Britannia, Cove, Arthur’s
seat, etc.
• Manchester is famous for its crafts and
design, shopping exhibitions and
Cathedral. Birmingham is popular for its
sites such as Birmingham botanical
garden, millennium point and Aston
Hall.
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Value of Tourism
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Cultural, social and physical
features of tourist destinations
• Tourism is London is source of cultural understanding and
peace.
• London as tourist destination is expected to yield more
benefits in future due to investment made by government in
online advertisement.
• Tourism supports local businesses such as apparel, food and
construction industry.
• It also provides employment opportunity to the country. It
also influences the social life style of host country.
• It also influences and enhances the culture of host country by
preserving and encouraging craft and designs.
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Features of Developing and
Leading Tourist Destinations
• Infrastructure
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