Development of the UK

By BrookeLeighTyler

  • Destination Development- Holiday Camps

    A holiday camp is a type of accommodation that encourage you to stay within the boundaries of a site. The first holiday camp was opened by Billy Butlins in 1936, it is still open today as a resort as the term ‘Holiday Camp’ has fallen out of place. Holiday camps where at their peak in 1945 to around the 60’s and catered for more than half of the holiday market but as the demand for package holiday’s in the sun became increasingly higher around the seventies, the camps declined.

  • Legislation- Holiday with Pay Act

    An Act to enable those who take an authorised holiday are still entitles to a wage.

  • Destination Development- Package Holidays

    Vladimir Raitz, the co-founder of the Horizon Holiday Group was the ‘creator’ or a packaged holiday, in 1949. Packages holiday were at their peak between the late 50s and 60s where they provided affordable packages to those who wanted to abroad however the industry declined after the company went bust leaving 50,000 people stranded overseas.

  • Legislation- Development of Tourism Act

    This is the act that provides for British Tourist Authority and Tourist boards for Scotland, England and Wales with a responsiblity for providing the development of Tourism to and within the UK. To provide financial assistance out of public funds for the provision of new hotels and the extension/ alteration and improvement of existing hotels.

  • Technological Development- The internet

    Internet has changed the way the Tourism industry works. The internet was created in the 70’s and due to the fact a lot of the travel agents had closed, before the internet to book a holiday you would’ve gone to see a Travel Agent in person but it is now more common to book a holiday online. As a result of this many Travel companies have merged together as they cannot survive independently.

  • Legislation-The Package Travel, Holidays and Tours Regulations 1992

    These regulations were put into place to ensure that there was no improper conduct by Tour Operators. It was clear, that often, Tour Operator sprang hidden costs on customers, lied about what the holiday actually consisted of and ultimately left passengers stranded after becoming bankrupt.
    The main points to the regulations are:
    -All correct and appropriate information is to be displayed in the brochure honestly.
    -It's made clear of any clauses in the contract that a customer should be aware of

  • Legislation-Air Passenger Duty

    APD is a duty which is charged on the carraige of passengers, this is responsible to the Airline.

  • Destination Development- Easy Jet

    Low-cost Airlines
    When low cost airlines where first introduce the increase for low cost travel rocketed, Easy Jet provided low-cost travel for lots of different destinations which then became increasingly popular.
    Long-haul
    Long haul flights where introduce which increased the want for unique holidays. Holiday patterns began to differ when more and more people wanted to fly long haul to destinations such as Australia.

  • Destination Development- Twin Towers

    After the event of nine-eleven the tourism in New York plummeted. It causes massive losses for the tourism sector as it employed 280,000 people and generated $25 Billion a year. Hotel declined in customers to only have 40% occupancy levels and 3,000 employees were laid off. Tourist became increasingly too worried to fly.

  • Product Development- London

    Tourism has been a huge help to some areas in need of development. Take the case of London’s East End development due to the London 2012 Olympics, the areas was boosted completely giving those who lived there a better standard of living.