Lake District National Park
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- Created on: 09-03-14 16:03
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- Lake District National Park
- Location - Cumbria
- Gets around 15 million visitors a year
- Tourists come for many reasons
- Scenery e.g. large lakes, (windermere), mountains (Scafell Pike)
- Activities e.g. Bird Watching, walking, pony-trekking, boat rides, sailing, rock climbing
- Cultral Attractions e.g. Beatrix Potter, Wordsworth museums
- Impacts tourists make
- Traffic Conjestion
- Erode footpath
- drop litter
- Coping with the impacts
- Traffic - public transport being improved to encourage tourists to use it too.
- Eroded footpaths - encourage to use less vulnerable areas, and using hard wearing materials
- protecting Wildlife - litter signs reminding tourists, bins at most popular sites, campaigns.
- Furure Tourist Plans
- improved public transport - make lakes more accessible
- Farms provide services such as quad biking, clay pigeon shooting, archery
- Timeshare developments
- encourage tourism outside the area e.g. Carlisle, West Coast
- Location - Cumbria
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