UK Tourism - Lake District
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- Created on: 29-05-17 18:03
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- UK Tourism - Lake District
- A National Park in Cumbria
- 15 million visitors per year
- Beautiful scenery
- Large lakes, e.g. Windermere
- Mountains, e.g. Scafell Pike
- Large lakes, e.g. Windermere
- Activities
- Bird watching, walking, pony trekking, boat rides, sailing and rock climbing
- Cultural attractions
- Beatrix Potter and Wordsworth museums
- Coping with the extra traffic
- Public transport is being improved
- Campaigns, e.g. 'Give The Driver A Break'
- Provides leaflets to show routes available and offer discounts at cafes/lake cruises for presenting bus/train tickets
- Coping with the erosion of footpaths
- Encouraging visitors to use less vulnerable areas
- 'Resting' popular routes
- Changing the line of paths and using hard wearing materials for paths, e.g. Tarn Hows severely eroded footpaths have been covered with soil /reseeded
- Main route has been gravelled for protection
- Changing the line of paths and using hard wearing materials for paths, e.g. Tarn Hows severely eroded footpaths have been covered with soil /reseeded
- Protecting wildlife and farmland
- Signs to remind visitors to take litter home
- Covered bins provided at most popular sites
- Campaigns to encourage visitors to kep dogs o leads and shut gates
- Official tourism strategy for Cumbria = extra 2 million visitors by 2018
- Increase amount tourists spend from £1.1 billion per year to £1.5 billion per year
- Improvements in public transport to make it more accessible
- More widespread advertising and marketing
- Farms encouraged to provide services
- Quad biking, clay pigeon shooting and archery
- Timeshare developments are to be increased
- Encourage tourism outside National Park, e.g. West Coast Furness and Carlisle
- Relieve pressure on main tourist areas
- Plans to regenerate ports like Whitehaven and Barrow = attract more tourists
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