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    This document discusses the role and importance of attractions in the tourism industry. It categorizes attractions as either natural attractions like mountains, forests, and coastlines, or built attractions like theme parks, museums, and sports facilities. Popular tourist destinations contain a range of attractions that aim to appeal to visitors and maximize profits. Attractions are considered the most important component of tourism, as they are the main motivators for trips and the core of a destination's tourism product. Many attractions also serve an entertainment purpose by engaging and captivating audiences. Entertainment venues in particular offer services that appeal to different customer types and generate revenue from hosting various events.

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    This document discusses the role and importance of attractions in the tourism industry. It categorizes attractions as either natural attractions like mountains, forests, and coastlines, or built attractions like theme parks, museums, and sports facilities. Popular tourist destinations contain a range of attractions that aim to appeal to visitors and maximize profits. Attractions are considered the most important component of tourism, as they are the main motivators for trips and the core of a destination's tourism product. Many attractions also serve an entertainment purpose by engaging and captivating audiences. Entertainment venues in particular offer services that appeal to different customer types and generate revenue from hosting various events.

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    Unit 1: Role of Attractions

    Role of the Attractions

     Tourist attractions draw visitors to a destination by providing


    opportunities for relaxation, amusement, entertainment and education.
    They are a dynamic component of the T&T industry and continually
    changing and evolving.
     The importance of such visitor attractions within the travel and tourism
    industry should not be underestimated.

    Activity
     For each of the countries named, research and name one major
    Natural and one major Built Attraction:
    Country Natural Attraction No. of Visitors Built Attraction No. of Visitors
    Cambodia
    Mexico
    India
    Ireland
    Yours
    Role of the Attractions
     Visitor attractions can be classified as follows:
    • Natural attractions (example mountains,
    forests, coastline, lakes/waterways, landscape
    features)
    • Built attractions (example theme parks,
    museums, heritage centres, sports facilities,
    family entertainment centres, cinemas, cultural
    attractions, animal parks, historic sites,
    shopping centres).
     Popular tourist destinations will contain a range of
    attractions. Every attraction, regardless of the size
    and scale of operation, will attempt to appeal to as
    many visitors as possible in order to maximise
    profits and to generate funding to support its
    further development. In this way, attractions will
    over time introduce new facilities in an attempt to
    remain profitably in business.
    Role of the Entertainment Venues

     Attractions are an extremely important part of the


    tourism industry and are the driving force behind much
    of the development that has taken place in a variety of
    destinations. It can be argued that tourist attractions
    are the most important component in the tourism
    system. They are the main motivators for tourist trips
    and are at the core of a destination’s tourism product.
     Without attractions there would be no need for many
    other tourism services. Indeed, tourism as such would
    not exist if it were not for the attractions. A great many
    tourist attractions have strong entertainment
    connections, being areas that are used primarily for an
    audience to be engaged or captivated.
     These include sports stadiums, theatres, and
    museums, all of which could be considered to be
    tourist attractions. Indeed many entertainment venues
    are seen as tourist attractions.
    Role of the Entertainment Venues

     An important characteristic of many entertainment venues is the fact that they


    offer products, services and facilities that appeal to different types of customer.
    For example, Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England is famous for being
    the home of the Grand National Steeplechase. However, the race course
    generates revenues from hosting a variety of events apart from horse racing.
    The race course grandstands can be used for business tourism events such
    as conferences, seminars, exhibitions and various types of meetings.
     The venue caters to weddings and other types of private functions as well.
    Aintree’s International Equestrian Centre was launched in 2007 as part of a
    £35m redevelopment program. This new facility, primarily used for show
    jumping and equestrian events, also has the dual purpose of being 37002m of
    exhibition space with an additional area of
    11002m allowing space for catering or storage.
     Since its opening in 2007, this exhibition
    space has been used for an array of high-
    profile and important events such as music
    concerts attracting over 45,000 visitors to
    see acts such as Pink, Deacon Blue, Amy
    Winehouse, Girls Aloud and the Sugababes.

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