A tourist destination is a city, town, or other area that is significantly dependent on revenues from tourism, or a country, state, region, city, or town which is marketed or markets itself as a place for tourists to visit. It may contain one or more tourist attractions and possibly some tourist traps.
A 'place' is a branded set of spaces usually in one location; be it a major shopping centre, historic market or iconic street.A destination is an area that comes within one postcode or borough.
According to Huang, thinking about the destination highlights the difference between where we are now and where we want to be: Knowing there is an ideal state and they are not there yet, that gap motivates people, she says. It's not just the beauty of our goal, it's the pain of not yet having achieved it.