Impacts of Urban Tourism

During the past few decades, traveling has greatly increased. Purposes of travel vary, some travel for business, some for leisure, some for the experience of different cultures, some for specific interests, or just for the pursuit of entertainment. More than half of the globe's population now lives in urban areas, these places are now the world's stage for many civilizations. They are centers of arts, entertainment and food, gateways to traditional customs and modern society, focal points for commerce, industry and finance, culture and people, icons and architecture, uniqueness and unity, and of course they give tourists a chance to experience diversity and creativity. However, to know what the city's strategies to attract the attention of tourist, there are cretin elements of urban tourism need to identify that lead to attract visitors to a city.

Tourism is often associated with traveling to places away from home. Tourism has a big impact on the economic growth of some countries, which define the shape of their cities by producing different sectors like historic districts, convention centers, museums, malls, hotels, restaurants, and the list can be endless. Furthermore, tourism elements have been developed by cities for a variety of reasons including: situating themselves in the world by drawing a positive image and attracting visitors and for their money.

As a result, by defining the primary and secondary elements in the tourist bubble, it could determine what effect urban tourism has on cities. Therefore, primary elements include: cultural facilities (museums and art galleries, theaters, cinemas, concert halls and convention centers), sport facilities, amusement facilities (night clubs, casinos and festivals), p...

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Houston, and Sydney opera house all these icons play a big role in marketing their cities to attract tourists to visit.

Overall, travel can change the spiritual as well as the physical existence of both visitors and host, therefore urban tourism refers to the consumption of city spectacles and cultural amenities by visitors. Also, it is important to point out that the tourist elements developed by most cities are portraying a product “the city” to promote it for consumers “visitors” in order of stimulating the urban economy.

Works Cited

1. Bosley , Holly Elizabeth, Ph.D. Spatial conceptualization of the urban tourist bubble

2. Dennis R. Judd “Constructing the Tourist Bubble”, The tourist city.

3. Holcomb, Briavel “Marketing cities for Tourism”, The tourist city.

4. http://www.scholars-on-bilbao.info/