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Blackpool Resort Development. STARTER: Swap books and look at each others’ photos- Add any other reasons for these places being tourist attractions Which reasons are human , which ones are physical. 3. Write me a memo reminding me why I went on these holidays. Develop 2 of your points!.
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Blackpool Resort Development STARTER: Swap books and look at each others’ photos- Add any other reasons for these places being tourist attractions Which reasons are human , which ones are physical. 3. Write me a memo reminding me why I went on these holidays. Develop 2 of your points!
Outline the physical and human attractions in the photo. [4] 4 minutes!
Quick activity Front, Middle and back- words Exploration, Involvement Development, Consolidation Stagnation, Decline Rejuvenation, Consolidation Write your words in a sentence that makes sense.
Blackpool and the Butler Model • Draw an x, y axis • X axis= Time from ‘1720 up to 2009’ • Y axis= Visitor numbers up to 16,000,000 • 1780=1,000 visitors • 1846= 4,000 visitors • 1863=600,000 • 1872= 850,000 • 1931= 3,850,000 • 1975= 16,000,000 • 1987=10,000,000 • 2004= 11,000,000 • Link up the points but not in a straight line. • Colour code and label these different eras: 1720-1780= Exploration 1781-1846= Involvement 1856-1870= Development 1872-1932= Consolidation 1972- 1986= Stagnation 1987-1990= Decline 2003- 2009= Rejuvenation • Match up these statements with the graph: New Opera house opened0- Britain’s largest cinema and Theatre Blackpool tower built M55 opened Only 4 hotels 127 Hectares of brownfield sites redeveloped The first railway opened £80mil coastal defence scheme 3 railway stations Average annual hotel occupancy rate reduced to 22% Promenade built along the seafront. • Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data! • Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers changed over time. • Why do you think that Blackpool went into Decline? (Think about where you might go on holiday) • Imagine you are town planners and your tourist town has gone into stagnation- what would you do to increase the tourist numbers again? What would you build/develop?
Questions- what questions have you got about this model or Blackpool?
What is happening at each of these stages??? What are the reasons? 1. 3. 4. 7. 6. 5. 2.
Homework • Find out a definition for each of these types of holidays • Find 2 different examples for each type of holiday • Explain why people might go on these different types of holidays. Adventure, Educational, Self-catering, Package
How does Blackpool fit with the Butler Model? Match up the key terms with definitions
Questions from last lesson continued…. • Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data! • Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers changed over time. • Why do you think that Blackpool went into Decline? (Think about where you might go on holiday) • Imagine you are town planners and your tourist town has gone into stagnation- what would you do to increase the tourist numbers again? What would you build/develop?
Tourism so far consolidation work • Tarsia
Questions • Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data! • Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers increased over time. • Give 2 reasons why the numbers decreased. When? • Explain the seven stages of the Butler model. • Explain why people might go on adventure holidays. • Why do people who live in HICs have more money to spend on holidays now?
June 2011 • What is your magic sentence? • What are your 3 reasons for the growth? • What 3 facts are you going to use for this?