Tourism is an ever growing industry. The first time the term tourism was mentioned was in 1800's. At this time tourism and holidays was a pure luxury and only available for aristocrats. With time the attitude towards tourism and travel changed and because of rapid life style change and improvements in the world of employment after the Second World War travel and tourism became accessible to bigger populaces. Through increase in holidays allowance, decrease in working hours and increase in disposal income people started having more time and money to travel. And by the technological advancement flying became incremental affordable for everybody. So the general populace start being interested in tourism. They start travelling to destinations of their interest. But what are the destinations tourists choose and why do they choose some destinations over other? Why do some countries attract and appeal to tourists more than others? These questions will be discussed further in this assignment.