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Introduction

The visitor attractions sector is an important component of the travel and tourism industry. It is the sector that provides the interest, excitement and activity for tourists when they visit a destination or when they venture out on a day trip.
In this assignment I am going to investigate the importance and the impacts of visitor attractions.

The definition of a visitor attraction is:
“..An attraction where it is feasible to charge admission for the sole purpose of sightseeing. The attraction must be a permanently established excursion destination, a primary purpose of which is to allow access for entertainment, interest, or education and can include places of worship (…); rather than being primarily a …show more content…

Other types of event attraction are: markets (World Travel Market), festivals (Glasgow music festival), folklore events, ceremonies (Queen’s jubilee) and religious processions (Fatima in Portugal).
1.2 Analyse the importance of different visitor attractions.

1.2.1 Economic
Tourism economic performance and potential, creating job and generating revenue at international, national, regional and local potential. Tourism can also benefit economies at regional and local levels, by revenue into urban and rural areas, creating employment opportunities, simulating the creation of new business enterprises and contributing toward for investment though the promotion of the positive image of an area. Regional and local areas will gain directly from tourism trough the collection of direct (include taxes and taxation on income generated by the tourist) and indirect (from revenue include too many indirect taxes and goods and services pay tourists).
1.2.2 Environmental and social-cultural of the visitor attraction for local community,
Environmental and social-cultural relate to the behaviour of the hosts and the visitors. This impact is consider non-economic impact of tourism, what affect they may have on society and the problems may arise.
For example, certain areas of countries such as India tend to be concentrated in certain areas or tourist circuits.

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