The picturesque region of Valencia is Spain 's third largest city, spreading across 301 miles of the Mediterranean coastline (Valencia, 1993). It has recently been transformed from a provincial and rural city to a major cultural-entertainment tourism destination (Prytherch & Maiques, 2009). Tourists travel for many different reasons, the major motives being culture, sport, events, food and wine, visiting family and friends, business, religion, health and education (Page & Connell, 2010). This essay will discuss why tourist choose to travel to Valencia and how attractions, accessibility, accommodation, awareness and amenities, also known as 'the five A 's, are important to the attractiveness of Valencia. Attractions can be natural or built …show more content…
With the 8th busiest airport in Spain, easily accessible transport is not hard to come by as air transport dominates the movement of international visitors. Valencia offers accessible accommodation and eliminates the barriers of people in wheelchairs, with mobility impairment and seniors by offering disability equipment in facilities and transport such as ramps and low steps. The city has also updated most of the metro stations ticket booths to have Braille and audio information to help people with visual impairment (Vinciguerra, 2008). Valencia 's accessibility broadens the target market as more people are able to visit the attractions, making it a popular tourist …show more content…
The first is the local populations attitude towards tourists, if they do not have a positive attitude then it will have a negative impact on the industry. Secondly, those who come face to face with tourists must have strong, positive attitudes towards tourists. For example, when you visit a destination you want the shops, post offices, cafe 's, hotels and the many other businesses that come in contact with tourists to have a positive attitude. The third point of awareness is market awareness. The destination and its image must be strong, positive and firmly implanted in the tourist 's mind. Valencia has strong market awareness, using the right images, and targeting the right market to make Valencia more attractive, therefore drawing in more
Vargas-Sánchez, A., Porras-Bueno, N., Plaza-Mejía, M. 2011. Explaining Residents’ Attitudes to Tourism: Is a Universal Model Possible?, Annals of Tourism Research, Vol 38, Issue 2, pp. 460-80.
Tourism impacts can be generally classified into seven categories with each having both positive and negative impacts. These impacts include; economic, environmental, social and cultural, crowding and congestion, taxes, and community attitude. It is essential for a balance on array of impacts that may either positively or negatively affect the resident communities. Different groups are concerned about different tourism impacts that affect them in one way or another. Tourism’s benefits can be increased by use of specific plans and actions. These can also lead to decrease in the gravity of negative impacts. Communities will not experience every impact but instead this will depend on particular natural resources, development, or spatial patterns (Glen 1999).
Catalonia is located in the northeast of Spain, bound to the north by the Pyrenees Mountains. Catalonia was not always independent and due to this Catalan is spoken not just in Catalonia but also in Valencia, Andorra and the Balearic Islands. Catalonia has always been a place of great popularity and wealth for many reasons such as industrialization, trade and being the host of the Summer Olympics in 1992. (www.everyculture.com , 2014) This brought in a lot of visitors and the years to follow saw a huge increase in the number of immigrants, bringing the population to over 6 billion. Catalonia’s capital, Barcelona, is home to over 25% of this six billion.
Attract tourist more and let them spent more money on it. Tourism is not only dependent on the city's economic development. Tourism at beginning was just the consumption activities from a handful of people. Nowadays tourism has become a modern mass activity more people could afford and love to pay for the tourism, the fundamental reason is the development of social productive forces and the result of people's consumption level improved. The city's economic development leads people have extra discretionary, it could be transformed into tourist motivations travel behavior, travel demand within the city can be m...
In this report, Tourist Australia, a service organisation in the field of tourism was chosen.
The aim of this essay is to carefully examine the existing resources of tourism within the destination their potential and weakness, SWOT and PEST analysis, statistics of tourist visiting and comparing those numbers and their demographic factors so on. Moreover the objectives of this essay is to discuss and me...
Firstly, tourism has positive and negative impact on the economy of the local community. It can create jobs and mitigate the numbers of unemployment. For example: one
My Essay is based upon Valencia Cuisine which is the Region of Spanish. Valencia is the oldest city in Spain, begin in 2100 years ago which is founding as a Roman Colony under the name of Valencia Edetanorum on the site of former Iberian town by the river Turia in the province of Edetania. The Valencia city lies on the Spain’s south-eastern coast where Turia River meet the Mediterranean Sea. This city is famous for Science, Arts, modern structure, and interactive museum. It also has so many beaches, Albufera Park, and walking trails. Valencia is famous for falls, a local festival held in March, and for Paella which is the most popular food of Valencia.
Andalusia region is a famous for as tourism destination in Spain which development can be define in various levels and main offers can be determined such as sun and beach. Nowadays, the region provide guests not only with sun and beach but also other offerings that destination have and as a result tourist inclination increases to the destination and involves benefit of tourism. However , the main idea of this case is rural tourism. Rural tourism solved a number of problems that appeared in the area such as unemployment, restriction of entrepreneurship (Genoveva ,Fuentes & Hidalgo, 2013, p,
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
Film induced tourism has grown in every aspect around the globe whether its because of the curiosity of the people to indulge in this kind of tourism or just being a part of the artificial world. Then it comes to define film tourism many authors have different views, according to Hudson and Ritch (2006a), it is describe as people visiting places which are directly influenced by films to see the landscapes, building, places as it was shown on TV, advertisement or in cinema screen. In addition to the meaning above for film induced tourism, Riley & Van Doren, (1992) further added that people visiting these places may be overwhelm with the romantic gaze of the place, and feel emotionally attached to it and also with the focal points of the film such as actors and their attributes, where they used to live, themes, social patterns and so on. However this essay will also discuss the originality of film tourism and its implications towards the destination and how it effects the local culture and community.
The first thing that anyone does when they step into a new place or country is to explore their surroundings. Since the place that you are in is unfamiliar to you, you usually search for a tour guide or anyone who has more knowledge of the place than you do. Cultural tourism is a great way to learn new historical facts of the places you are exploring, whether it be a significant monument or a cave that’s been around for forever or maybe little buildings that important things happened in. I find that cultural tourism is a beneficial to Maoris indigenous tribe.
The tourism in Barcelona is supported by the numerous artistic buildings, including the stadium, parks, museums, churches and squares. When it comes to Barcelona question in Barcelona is not what to see, it's probably what to see first because of the many choices. Other attractions include Placa Reial, National Museum of Art of Catalunya MNAC, and Miró Museum.
...pay the entrances fees, etc. There are two key points in attracting the tourist to visit community-based tourism destinations:
Tourism's economic benefits are advertised by the industry for a sum of reasons. The idea of tourism's economic significance gives the industry a much greater respect among the business municipal, public officials, and the public in general. This often translates into decisions to tourism.