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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
In this week’s Tourisphere edition, it is important to look beyond the shores of The Gambia to see some more attractive places of tourist interest world over.
As formerly discussed in this column, tourism is to travel for leisure purposes or for the provision of services to support recreational travel. The United Nations classified tourism into three categories in its 1994 recommendations on Tourism Statistics.
The three are domestic tourism,which involves the residents of a given country traveling only within the country; inbound tourism, is the non-residents traveling within a given country, and the most popular and well known type, within our region,is the outbound tourism, this involves residents traveling to another country.
Tourism is vital to African countries especially West Africa, and many island nations due to the financial gains and employment opportunity provided by the industry.
In the ranking of the world’s most visited tourist attractions last year, by Forbes Traveller for both international and domestic tourists, the following are the top ten attraction centres, with some other famous sites which included the list of fifty most visited places in the world.
According to the list, it is noticeable that four out of the top five and six out of the top ten are in the North America.
The Times Square in New York City, with 35 millions visitors. National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington D.C recorded 25 millions. The Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, 16.6 millions, of all the above mentioned ,three is in United States of America.
The fourth one is Trafalgar Square,in London with 15 million registered visitors while Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and New York, Fisherman’s Wharf and Golden Gate Natl R. Area, San Fransisco United States witnessed 15, 14.7, 14 and 13 million visitors respectively. While the last three under ten goes to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, Tokyo, with 12.9 million, Notre-Dame de Paris, and Disneyland Paris both in France recorded 12 and 10.6 million visitors each.
Other famous attractions include the Great Wall of China Badaling, Effeil Tower, Paris, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Statue of Liberty, New York, the Vatican and his Museum, Rome, the Colosseum both in Italy, Gira Pyramids in Cairo - Egypt and Taj Mahal, Agra in India.
As formerly discussed in this column, tourism is to travel for leisure purposes or for the provision of services to support recreational travel. The United Nations classified tourism into three categories in its 1994 recommendations on Tourism Statistics.
The three are domestic tourism,which involves the residents of a given country traveling only within the country; inbound tourism, is the non-residents traveling within a given country, and the most popular and well known type, within our region,is the outbound tourism, this involves residents traveling to another country.
Tourism is vital to African countries especially West Africa, and many island nations due to the financial gains and employment opportunity provided by the industry.
In the ranking of the world’s most visited tourist attractions last year, by Forbes Traveller for both international and domestic tourists, the following are the top ten attraction centres, with some other famous sites which included the list of fifty most visited places in the world.
According to the list, it is noticeable that four out of the top five and six out of the top ten are in the North America.
The Times Square in New York City, with 35 millions visitors. National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington D.C recorded 25 millions. The Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, 16.6 millions, of all the above mentioned ,three is in United States of America.
The fourth one is Trafalgar Square,in London with 15 million registered visitors while Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and New York, Fisherman’s Wharf and Golden Gate Natl R. Area, San Fransisco United States witnessed 15, 14.7, 14 and 13 million visitors respectively. While the last three under ten goes to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, Tokyo, with 12.9 million, Notre-Dame de Paris, and Disneyland Paris both in France recorded 12 and 10.6 million visitors each.
Other famous attractions include the Great Wall of China Badaling, Effeil Tower, Paris, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Statue of Liberty, New York, the Vatican and his Museum, Rome, the Colosseum both in Italy, Gira Pyramids in Cairo - Egypt and Taj Mahal, Agra in India.
Author: by Yunus S. Saliu
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