A tourist destination is a city, town, or other area that is dependent to a significant extent on the revenues accruing from tourism, or "a country, state, region, city, or town which is marketed or markets itself as a place for tourists to visit".^[2] It may contain one or more tourist attractions and possibly some "tourist traps." Siem Reap town for example is a popular tourist destination in Cambodia, mainly owed to its proximity to Angkor temples.

A tropical island resorts is an island or the archipelago that also depends of tourism as their source of revenue. The Bahamas inCaribbean archipelago, Bali in Indonesia, Phuket in Thailand, Hawaii and Fiji in the Pacific, and Ibiza in Mediterranean are examples of popular island resorts.