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Introduction of the Boeing 747 'Jumbo Jet'
The 350-400 person once carried 1,087 people at once and the plane has flown more than 3.5 billion people. The plane was originally designed to be converted into a cargo plane.One of the main requirements for the military transport was for there to be a nose loading cargo door with easy access to the main deck. -
The then number one UK tour operator Clarkson went into liquidation
On the 16th August 1974 Clarksons Holidays went into voluntary liquidation. -
1970 Concorde
the Concorde was the first super sonic passenger carrying commercial airplane built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France. the Concorde made its first transatlantic flight on the 26th of September 1973, it introduced the worlds first supersonic passenger service on January the 21st 1976. The British Airways were initially flying the aircraft from London to Bahrain and Air France flying it from Paris to Rio de Janeiro. Both airlines added regular service to Washington D.C. -
British people made 20 million visits abroad
There were many discounts on holidays making it much easier for British people to travel abroad. -
Launch of Ryanair
Ryanair’s first cabin crew recruits had to be shorter than 5ft2 in order to be able to work in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. the first flight was from Dublin to London Luton. it was founded on the 28th November 1984 in Dublin Ireland by Tony Ryan. Ryanair carried 82,000 passengers in its first year in operation. In 2016, Ryanair was the largest European airline by scheduled passengers flown, and carried more international passengers than any other airline. -
Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet
In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and he wrote the first web client and server in 1990. He also envisioned that his invention could, in the wrong hands, become a destroyer of worlds. -
Channel Tunnel opened
It took more than 5 years to complete with more than 13,000 workers from England and France working together to realise the vision, the tunnel has been named one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. it is the longest undersea tunnel in the world and it is worth around 140 billion euros per year with the 1.6 million trucks transporting between the UK and the continent. -
EasyJet launched
EasyJet was founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou to offer low priced flights in Europe. EasyJet opened their first headquarters EasyLand at Luton Airport. On 23 October, EasyJet took their first ever booking at the telephone reservation centre. They were supported by the advertising campaign "Making flying as affordable as a pair of jeans - £29 one way". In August 1996 they launched their first ever flight promotion with over 4 million calls in 4 days. -
Launch of Tomorrows Tourism
Tomorrows Tourism work to maximise their long term benefits for places, people ad the assets on which success depends. They claim to be smart and efficient and holistic and sustainable. -
9/11
Due to the major accident that happened on September the 11th 2001 it caused a massive decline in Visitors to New York City from going 6.8 million visitors in 2000 to 5.7 million in 2001. It took the city almost five years to get back to their original visitors but it has continued to grow since then with 13.5 international visitors in 2018 -
Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
On December 26th 2004 an undersea earthquake caused a series of large tsunami waves reaching up to 30 meters tall. The disaster had a huge impact on 14 different countries including Indonesia, Thailand and India, there was a destruction of what would add up to $508 million and many tourists were caught in the tsunami which lead to many people cancelling their holidays to those affected countries. In 2005 Thailand visitor numbers decreased to 11.6 million but reached 13.8 million in 2006. -
Global Recession
In 2008 the world was hit by a massive financial crisis leading to many markets crashing and holiday makers dealing with tight budgets. straight away following this recession there was an increase by 17% in British holidays and a decrease in outbound travel. it was not until 2014 when overseas an abroad visits from the UK began to increase again. abroad holidays increased by 4% and staycations decreased by 1.3% in a year. -
Icelandic Ash Cloud
A series of volcanic eruptions in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland caused an ash cloud which caused havoc on air travel in Europe due to worries that the ash cloud would damage aircraft engines if they tried to travel through it. Due to this 107,000 flights were cancelled over and eight day period, affecting roughly 10 million passengers. -
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is one of the biggest events in history TV, they have filmed in Croatia, Northern Ireland, Iceland and Spain. Many fans of the show will visit these places each year as inspiration to see where their favourite programme is filmed. This then brings income into those countries. -
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games
There were 470,000 visits from overseas to the UK in July, August and September that were mainly there for the Olympic or Paralympic games. £709 million was spent during this time by these visitors. -
Paris Terrorist Attacks
During this attack there were 137 fatalities and more than 300 were injured. Many people were afraid to travel after this incident leading to a large decrease in tourists going to France especially. -
Brexit
The UKs decision to leave the European Union made the visitors to the UK fall by 5.3% in the 2018. How Brexit will effect the travel industry both inside and outside the UK is still unkown. -
COVID - 19
Due to COVID 19 there were many travel restrictions put in place which had a huge impact on the travel and tourism industry. Over 700,000 people lost their jobs during these times and many holidays and flights had to be cancelled. This is an absolute tragedy for the travel industry due to so much money being lost and so many people fearing to travel abroad.
