The United States: A Cultural Analysis

On the contrary, the United States has the benefit of its diverse cultures, which leads its tourism more sustainable. The United States does not practice the cultural heritage tourism because it does not have the museums and monuments as much as France does. However, there are different features in each tourist city of the United States, which attract tourists to stay longer. For example, the feature of the West Coast is about sunshine and beaches, and therefore some famous attractions in San Francisco and Los Angeles are beaches such as Santa Cruz, Santa Monica. These are the must-go places to tourists when they visit in California, because they cannot find the same California sunshine in other places, and this presents that the uniqueness

For tourists, safety is always their first priority when they are traveling. However, France, particularly in Paris, is the hotspot where being a magnet for criminals and pickpockets. More importantly, Paris is the place where most tourists concentrate, and thereby France is suffering the spate of pickpocket. Furthermore, the Louvre museum and Eiffel Tower have once been shutdown in 2013 and 2014 respectively, for protesting against pickpockets. According to USA Today and BBC, “the Louvre had about 10 million visitors [in 2012], and would normally draw 30,000 a day” and “about seven million people go up the tower every year”. In other words, this indicates the impact of closing these popular sites for a few days or even a few hours that France will lose a great amount of revenues. However, we should not blame this on the workers who did the protests. Instead, the fundamental problem is the spate of pickpocket in Paris. In addition, CNN states that “one of [pickpockets] main targets appears to be that relatively new group of tourists, the Chinese”. Chinese prefer carry cash to use cards based on their cultural preference. That leads them to be targeted by pickpockets. Particularly, when they go shopping in the luxury stores on the Champs-Elysées. Paris is a favorite destination among wealthy Chinese. Thus, “Parisian businesses are worried the risk of theft might drive Chinese travelers

Even though France is the destination where the most international tourists arrive, tourism is a main part of French economy and thereby it is important for them to improve the rank in terms of tourist revenues. All in all, we can summarize the shortcomings of French tourism are, France does not have enough tourist cities and uniqueness of the attractions to make tourists staying longer, as well as its problems of pickpocket and unfriendliness to tourist are continuing. These shortcomings will definitely influence the future of French tourism. Hence, France should learn from the U.S. to develop more tourist cities and different features of the attractions, solve the safety problem immediately and make an attitude adjustment. It is important for France to correct these shortcomings not only because it will be more likely to overtake the United States in terms of revenues, but also the competitiveness and sustainability of its tourism will increase. In this global era, competitiveness and sustainability are the two elements that determine the future of tourism. Therefore, France has to put more effort to improve