Retail and entertainment Organisations in the Tourism industry by Whollands

Retail Organisations (Textbook Definition)

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:09:07 UTC

Shopping seems to have taken the world by storm. Shopping malls orginally started in the USA but have spread worldwide. Destinations such as New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai are now almost famous for their shops and shopping centres as they are for their leisure atteactions. In the UK, designer shopping outlets and mill stores have become significant within the tourism industry. Many of these outlets are promoted by local and regional tourism boards, as they bring visitors and income to the area, and other local attractions and service providers can benefit assdfsdfsfsf

Large purpose-built shopping malls such as Bluewater in Kent and the Trafford Centre in Manchester, have won prestigious awards for their contributions to the tourism industry. They not only attract domestic tourists but also tourists from overseas, who visit the UK on short breaks to take advantage of the range of products on sale. McArthurGlen has 13 designer outlet centres across the UK, France, Austria, Holland and Italy; these draw over 40 million visitors each year.

What are they?

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:24:06 UTC

Retail and Entertainment organisations are mostly private sector

Aims

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:24:30 UTC

To make a profit

supply to customer

spend very little but make a lot

beat competitors

sell a specific number of products

Funding

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:25:02 UTC

Funding can come from a variety of sources:

-Stocks and shares

-private funds

-bank loan

-friends and family

-government grants

Possible conflicts

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:27:17 UTC

Building a large scale organisation can cause many problems for example:

-Disputes with locals

-disputes with landowners

-disputes with voluntary protective organisations

-disputes with other retail/entertainment companies (over price, land and other problems

Role in developing tourism

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:30:18 UTC

The retail and entertainments organisations can cause a huge affect on developing tourism this is because of the facilities that are then available for the tourists allowing them to develop.

-They also provide services for the locals (retail shops and entertainment facilities)

-They can also provide jobs for the local community which will aid with economical aspect in the country

-Economical aspects can also be helped by the Tax on the products that the tourists buy.

Questions

williamhollands — 2015-02-06 10:36:16 UTC

1. can you name any other examples?

2. what effects will retail organisations have on developing tourism?

3. what effects will an entertainments industry company do to tourism in the UK if they are successful?

Liam - increase visitors to the local area, promotes the host country/area.This will postively impact the economy to the host country.

4. What will the different awards do for both the entertainment industry and the retail industry.

5. could conflicts occur between the 2 industry sectors?

Blue-water and tourism KENT

williamhollands — 2015-02-10 11:28:03 UTC

Blue-water in Kent ensure they are attracting tourists by providing attractions and incentives for the Coach drivers and the customers.

They also have a list of different hotels which are close to the facilities for the tourist to stay close to the facilities.

2011: Awards

Three Awards at the ICSC Solal Marketing Awards
• The ICFC Foundation Community Support Award – The Learning Shop at Bluewater
• Silver Award for The Learning Shop in the community relations category.
• Silver Award in the PR category for the snow management campaign of December 2010

Two Purple Merit Awards
• The Learning shop in the community relations category
• PR category for Bluewater the snow management campaign during December 2010

Thorpe Park and tourism development

williamhollands — 2015-02-10 11:40:08 UTC

Model World is also present at the opening. Thorpe Park wins the ‘Come to Britain’ trophy awarded by the British Tourist Board for the best new leisure development of the year.

Thorpe Park have also introduced an onsite hotel for the customers this enables customers to be able to stay in the park rather than commuting to the park from else where.

Questions - Rob

roberthoinville — 2015-02-13 10:21:06 UTC

1) Entertainment organisations - theater, cinema, West End, Broadway

2) Large shopping centers with world famous brands will attract tourists purely because they want to go shopping, people travel to London to visit Harrods and Westfield

Toby John Mitchell

tobymitchell — 2015-02-13 10:24:08 UTC

1)Cinema, theater, bowling etc.

2) it will reduce tourism in small towns due to tourists wanting to got to large retail stores instead, this will cause a dead heart in towns CBD's which means that that town will become lees appealing to tourists.

3)it will reduce shopping in the surrounding towns within that particular region.

2015-02-13 10:25:25 UTC

2) Provide more facilities in order to cater for increasing visitor numbers whilst providing famous and well known shops which may be famous to that specific destination. Therefore people may visit if it is more unique to a destination

3) May reduce countryside and nature attractions if more inside entertainment attractions develop.

chloe 1-

2015-02-13 10:26:23 UTC

other examples could include:

bowling, west end, cinemas

chloe 3

2015-02-13 10:26:57 UTC

i think the effect which retail organisations have on developing tourism is increasing amount of tourists as retail is a huge attraction to tourists- e-g- many tourists travel to america for the shopping

Q2) Ella

2015-02-13 10:27:41 UTC

Provide an attraction for tourists to visit a destination therefore will effect the tourism because tourists will travel specifcally for the iconic attractions.

For instance; tourists will visit London because of the many attractions they have such as:

- West End Theatre

- London Eye

- Westfields

etc.,

Q1) Olivia

odobberson — 2015-02-13 10:28:49 UTC

Cinemas, bowling alleys, theatre, amusement parks, acarddes.