6.1 Traditional Holiday Resorts
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- Created on: 19-02-17 10:07
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- Traditional Holiday resorts
- Seaside resorts
- Popular with a new type of tourist - Workers (e.g from London)
- The spread of the Railway network helped people from Urban areas access the seaside
- Helped by: Bank holiday act (1871) and Annual paid holiday became more common
- e.g Brighton
- Professional class tended to stay in Hotels e.g The Grand
- Less wealthy holidaymakers stayed in Guesthouses
- Activities such as Punch and Judy and Pier were popular
- Spa towns/ Inland resorts
- Wealthy Tourists
- Meical benefits of mineral waters e.g Heart disease and Eczema
- e.g Bath
- Railway helped make it accessible
- Snowdon Mountain railway 1896 - Snowdonia landscape
- Day excursions
- Alternative: Many people of the Working Class had little time/money to take long holidays
- Organised by local Church/ Chapel/Club
- Travel by either Train or Charabanc
- e.g Barry Island or a local beauty spot
- Holidays abroad
- Upper classes
- 'Grand Tour' Throughout Europe for education
- e.g Switzerland
- Organised by tour companies e.g Thomas Cook
- Seaside resorts
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