Chapter 13

• Tourist attractions - regarded as a key component of the tourism market.
• tourist attractions are dynamically changing in terms of form, location, style, and scale.
• Creating attraction involves: culture and technology
• attractions are tied into the three E's Entertain, Excitement, Education.
• Determinants of the Attraction Market: Cultural, Political, Economic, Technological, New trends in Tourism, Media.
• Political factors - problems of political tenor
• economic factors - tourist attraction generated profits from admission tickets.
• Sociocultural Factors - impacts the creation and adjustment of attractions to meet ecological requirements and make them accessible to the disabled and elderly.
• Technological Factors - Example is the exclusive attraction the space flight. (Space tourism)
• Stage 1. Discovery - small number of unobtrusive visitor arrive seeking unspoiled destinations.
• Stage 2. Launch - In this stage the number of incoming tourists increases.
• Stage 3. Stagnation - The stage in which saturation is reached.
• Stage 4. Decline - this represents the current state of mature tourist destination.