Month: October 2024

BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE

According to (Fodors.com, 2022) since 1873 when Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Buckingham Palace has served as the official residence of every British monarch. It has been the home and working headquarters of the royal family for over 180 years making it a central part of British royal life across generation.

According to (Haven-Tang, 2017) weather you are royalty or not, the royal family undeniably attracts public interest around the UK and internationally. Furthermore, after the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, it has been claimed by the UK’s Association of Leading Visitor Attraction the increase of 600,000 people come to London for a weekend, 40% overseas and 60% from UK spending £107m (Haven-Tang, 2017).

However, the queen formal resident also attracts a considerable number of visitors in 2016 with 2.8m people with Buckingham being one of them making 576,995 visitors (Haven-Tang, 2017). According to Google Statistics Buckingham Palace has increase its numbers of admission to the Royal Estate in the United Kingdom from 2019/20 to 2023/24 by establishment.

Maintaining Buckingham Palace, as both royal residence and a working Government building, requires significant infrastructure. This infrastructure refers to the basic physical structure necessary to support tourism activities and enable visitors to access, enjoy, and benefit from destination. It encompasses a wide range of facilities, services, and systems that ensure the smooth functioning of the Buckingham Palace.

Transport Infrastructure through air, sea, train, road for public transport allow tourist and local visit Buckingham Palace and help tourist to move around within a destination. According to Hebber (2018) Travelling by bus is also affordable introduced as the next mode of transport in London for the past years, its upper deck of London’s double decker buses offered generations of tourist a prime vantage point.

Accommodations include hotels, luxury hotels are the key component of tourist and local hospitality contributing to their experience in and around the royal palace.

Reference list

According to (Gilbert ,2004) Wester dictionary define the word tourism as deprived from the word tour as visiting various places and is usually a planned visits with the use of itinerary on a round trip for pleasure business or education and the trip is usually returned to its starting point. However in 1937, the international definition of a tourist was someone travels for more than 24 hours outside of their home.Furthermore, according to Bukhara and Medlik in 1940 and later 1980 by Heeley identified tourism in two main groups as in 1) nature of tourism as an activity and 2) as what constitutes Tourism activity

 Tourism is hard to identify through economic and its social definition.According to Herman Von Schullards in 1910 an Austria economist define tourism as a “ the sum of total operation, mainly of economic nature which directly relate to the entry, stay and movement of foreigners inside and outside a certain country city  or region”. Economist might focus on Tourism in terms of its contribution to GDP, employment or revenue generation while sociologist might examine its cultural impacts, social  dynamics, or effects on communities.

Tourism overlaps with concept like migration business travel and commuting. For example business travellers or seasonal workers might be considered tourist under some definition but not others, depending on the context

Tourism involves various stakeholders including travellers, service providers (hotels, airlines, tour operators)Government and local communities.Each stakeholder may have different perspective on what constitutes tourism.

Accoriding to (Govers,.et.al 2008) Smith states in 1999:137 quoting “Despite the importance usual enviroment in tourism the [UN]WTO doesn’t not specify how the concept should be operationalised. Instead, statistical agencies are free to decide how this concept should define within their own social, political and economic context”(Gover.,et.al.,2008)

Reference

1. Govers, R., Van Hecke, E. and Cabus, P., 2008. Delineating tourism: Defining the usual environment. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(4), pp.1053-1073.
2. Gilbert, D.C., 2004. Conceptual issues in the meaning of tourism. Tourism: Critical concepts in the social sciences, 1, pp.45-69