Research task A1 Types of visitor attractions
I have researched the different types of attractions for built attractions.
Built attractions: theme parks, museums, galleries, heritage sites, national monuments, cultural heritage, arts, sporting venues, visitor centres.
Investigate the nature, role and appeal of visitor attractions
Built Name of Name of Name of Definition
attractions attraction/description attraction/description attraction/description
of place (local) of place (national) of place
(international)
Theme West Midland Safari Alton Towers is a Happy Valley
parks Park is a safari park in theme park in Shanghai is a theme
Bewdley in Staffordshire, park in Shanghai,
Worcestershire, England. Alton Towers China.
England. has 40 rides and
attractions, 20
attractions aimed at
young children and
families and have 10
rollercoasters. It also
has a hotel, golf
course and a
waterpark.
Museums Black Country Living The British Museum is Shanghai Museum is a
Museum is an open a museum in London, museum in Shanghai,
air museum in Dudley, England. The British China. Shanghai
West Midlands in Museum has a Museum is a large
England. The museum collection that spans museum of ancient
tells the story of the over two million years Chinese art.
world’s first industrial of human history. It The museum is
landscape. has a collection of divided into eleven
world art and galleries and three
artefacts and is free exhibition halls. The
for visitors to visit. eleven galleries cover
most of the major
categories of Chinese
art.
Heritage Stonehenge is a
sites heritage site in
Wiltshire, England. It
is a prehistoric
monument that has a
circle of standing
stones.
National Hall of memory is a Westminster Abbey is The Royal palace of
monument national monument in a large, mainly Gothic Madrid is a national
s Birmingham. The Hall abbey church in the monument in Madrid,
of memory is a City of Westminster, Spain. State
memorial to the London, located just ceremonies, banquets
people of Birmingham to the west of the and other state
who died in the world Palace of functions take place at
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