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destination — English
A place where people (tourists) go to spend a short period such as a day or a week or two on vacation, or attend a sport tournament or a conference, receive medical treatment or execute work and study responsibilities. Certain places in the world are particularly attractive to, and popular with, short-term visitors, and they can be regarded as prime tourism destinations. Examples of such places include Cape Town and the Kruger National Park in South Africa; the beaches of Hawaii and Rio de Janeiro (especially during the annual Rio carnival season!); Disneyland and Las Vegas in the United States of America; Bundi Beach in Australia; the beaches of Bali and Phuket; Yosemite National Park in the USA; Serengeti in Tanzania; the Okavango Delta in Botswana; London and Paris with their historical buildings; Elvis Presley’s home “Graceland” in Memphis, Tennessee (in the USA); the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in Gauteng; even Antarctica has lately become an extremely popular destination for wealthy tourists. Religious pilgrims visit certain holy places, such as Mecca and Jerusalemand the Vatican in Rome, and these places also count as short-term destinations. But there is another type of destination, namely places where migrants go in order to find employment (see “refugees”). These people spend longer periods at the places where they find work. An example of this is the many migrants – both legal and illegal – from more northerly African countries such as Malawi, Zimbabwe and the DRC who are attracted to Gauteng and Limpopo Provinces in order to find employment and earn a living. (See “attraction”).
