Blackpool Case Study
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- Created on: 04-04-14 19:37
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- UK Coastal Resort Case Study-Blackpool
- Butler's Model
- Stage 1-Exploration
- People would travel for the healthy sea air and for buisness
- Before late 1700s
- Stage 2-Involvement
- 1781
- Private road built-stagecoaches start to arrive
- Few hotels built-people begin to come from Manchester
- Stage 3-Development
- 1846
- Manchester to Blackpool Railway
- More hotels and leisure facilites
- Stage 4-Consolidation
- 1900-1950
- Family holidays
- Shabby facilities and an increase in litter and pollution
- Stage 5-Stagnation
- 1960
- Competitors were providing package holidays
- Stag and hen nights-more crime (drunk and disorderly)
- Stage 6-Decline
- Now
- Attracting less visitors, large areas are failing or have failed, tourists are spending less money and physical resources have been ruined
- Stage 1-Exploration
- Resources
- Blackpool Tower (looks similar to Eiffel Tower)
- Clean beach-safe for families
- Blackpool Illuminations
- Modern Art-attract new tourists
- Trams
- Donkeys
- Effects of Tourism
- Damaging to Blackpool-driving families away
- Low cost B&Bs
- Bad reputation-higher crime rate
- Binge drinking-stag and hen weekends held there
- Management of Tourism
- Building of lots of hotels
- Attempting to keep up with standards
- Modern art designed to attract new tourists
- Pleasure Beach Complex-attract different tourists
- £81 million spent on management and rejuvenation
- Butler's Model
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