Geography Butler Tourist Lifecycle Model
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- Created on: 06-12-15 14:05
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- Butler Tourism Lifecycle Model (Blackpool)
- What?
- The Stages
- Consolidation
- Economy reliant on tourism
- Significant effects on environment
- Locals start to resent tourists
- Road and rail improvements required
- Stagnation
- Facilities and services start to decline
- Tourist numbers static
- Destination is perceived as 'spolit'
- Budget tourists encouraged
- Development
- Visitor numbers increase
- Package holidays offered
- Effects on economy and environment - good and bad
- More attractions built
- Rejeuvenation
- Money invested, new attractions set up
- Environmental impacts decrease
- Economic impacts increase
- Visitor numbers increase
- Involvement
- More people arrive, B & Bs open
- Economic benefits increase
- Transport improves
- Decline
- Investment declines
- Crime, graffiti and shop closure
- Day trips only
- Reputation spoilt
- Exploration
- Few people visit
- Little environment damage or economic benefits
- Locals welcoming, culture unchanged
- Tourists stay with locals - families & friends
- Consolidation
- Blackpool
- Reasons for growth
- Workers given annual holiday in 1870
- Connection to the railway in 1846
- Pier built in 1868
- Tower built in 1894
- 1879 Blackpool illuminations
- Management
- The introduction of Blue Flag Beaches - means they reach a certain standard
- Park and ride
- Tram network improvement
- More car parking
- Stage
- Rejeuvenation
- Package holidays
- Budget airlines and cheaper flights
- Overcrowding and stag/hen parties
- What it's doing to rejeuvenate
- Brilliance town center lighting scheme - allows people to explore the town at night
- St. John's Square - new planting, paving and lighting. WiFi and wave sculpture added
- £300 million investment scheme
- New sea defenses added - the Spanish steps
- Reasons for growth
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