watering place vs resort area

watering place and resort area both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
watering place	Yes	No	No	No
resort area	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, resort area is a hypernym of watering place; that is, resort area is a word with a broader meaning than watering place:

watering place: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
resort area: an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes

Other hypernyms of watering place include playground, vacation spot.

watering place (noun)	resort area (noun)
a health resort near a spring or at the seaside	an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes