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The Boeing 747 is a large, long–range wide-body airliner and cargo aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States. the first flight was January 22, 1970 however BA made the decision to retire its Boeing 747 jets in July 2020 due to Covid 19.
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Clarkson travel group was a pioneering package tour operator in the UK during the 1960s and early 1970s. the company was immensely successful but ran into financial difficulties and in 1972 was taken over by its major supplier of air travel, Court Line. However, after two years, on 15 August 1974, Court Line collapsed, taking down Clarksons with at least £7m owing to 100,000 holidaymakers and possibly twice as much.
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Concorde was the first supersonic passenger carrying commercial airplane and was built jointly by aircraft manufactures in great Britain and France. The first Concorde flight with passengers was January 21 1976, flying from London Heathrow and Orly airport which is just outside Paris. The London flight went to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and the France flight to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal in West Africa. Concordes top speed was 2,178km/h and travelled to New York from London in 2 hours 52 mins.
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Concorde used to reach to 60,000 ft, a height of over 11 miles. So passengers were able to see curvature of the Earth. Due to the intense heat of the airframe, an aircraft used to stretch anywhere from 6 to 10 inches during flight. Every surface, even the windows, was warm to the touch by the end of the flight. Flights consisted of nine crew members: two pilots, one flight engineer and six flight attendants. Concorde used to fly 100 passengers (40 in the front of cabin and 60 in the rear cabin).
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Ryanair is set up by the Ryan family with a share capital of just £1, and a staff of 25. We launch our first route in July with daily flights on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft, operating daily from Waterford in the southeast of Ireland to London Gatwick. Ryanair’s first cabin crew recruits must be less than 5ft. 2ins. tall in order to be able to operate in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. The first flights operate in May from Dublin to London Luton.
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The first flights operate in May from Dublin to London Luton. The launch fare of £99 return is less than half the price of the BA/Aer Lingus lowest return fare of £209. Both British Airways and Aer Lingus slash their high prices in response to Ryanair’s. they started the first fare war in Europe and they carried 82,000 passengers in their first full year in operation. In 1987-88 Ryanair acquires its first jet aircraft by leasing three BAC1-11 aircraft from the Romanian state airline, Tarom.
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July 5th 1841 was when the first package holiday was made by Thomas Cook for their workers and their families in England. they came popular in the 1980s when most breaks were taken in sunny European destinations. in 1989 is when package holidays topped 10 million for the first time.
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Tim Berners-lee is an oxford uni graduate who created the world wide web in 1989. He was working as a software engineer at CERN when he came up with the idea of the web, his first proposal was not immediately accepted until in 1991 which was when people outside CERN was able to use the web and once the web began to grow Tim decided more people would use it if it was free.
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Harry Goodman was the founder of Intasun parent International Leisure Group, Goodman pioneered low- cost package holidays and created a number of iconic travel brands. He sold flights to two-week holidays to Miami Beach for £199 when the air fare alone was usually much more than that. He also created a pan-European low-cost airline, Air Europe, before Ryanair and easyJet became household names.
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The Channel Tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, it's 31 miles and was one of the biggest engineering project ever undertaken in the UK, took more than 5 years to complete and had more than 13,000 workers in England and France collaborating to realise the vision, it took 3 years for the tunnels boring machines to chew through the chalky earth and meet hundreds of feet below the surface of the English Channel. The tunnel has been named one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
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The tunnel consists of 3 tunnels, 2 tubes are full sized and accommodate rail traffic. In between the two train tunnels is a smaller service tunnel that is an emergency escape route. one year after the Chunnel opened, this engineering design was put to the test. Thirty-one people were trapped in a fire that broke out in a train coming from France. The design worked. Everyone was able to escape through the service tunnel.
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EasyJet founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou to offer low-fares flights in Europe. opens its first headquarters easyLand at Luton Airport. On 23 October, they took their first ever booking at the telephone reservation centre.
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On September 11, 2001 19 terrorist hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States and killed almost 3,000 people. This tragedy had a huge impact on the tourist industry in the city and they saw a huge decline in visitors going from 6.8 million in 200 to 5.7 million in 2001. it took the city almost 5 years to get back to pre 9/11 levels however has began to thrive since then with almost 13.55 million international visitors in 2018.
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9/11 also had a huge impact on the update of security at airports. before the attack you could bring mostly everything on the flight with you, you could even bring a 4 inch blade. However, one year after the attack they introduced explosive detection systems nationwide to screen all bags for explosives. In the years following, the agency has installed more advanced technologies, such as the full-body scanner. all items which could be used to harm somebody were banned from hand luggage...
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along with all liquids but a month later, TSA amended the rule and allowed passengers to carry on liquids, gels and aerosols in containers of 3.4 ounces or less in a single, clear, resealable 1-quart plastic bag.
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On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. By the next day, over a thousand people had registered, and by the end of 2019 there are nearly 2.5 billion active users This helped the travel and tourism industry as it allowed people to share photos, travel tips and stories.
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Mamma Mia is a hugely popular film which is filmed on the greek island Skopelos. This created a huge increase in numbers of visitors and helping the Greek recover from their financial crash.
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.. financial help for airlines would be considered.
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In 2010 a series of volcano eruptions in Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland caused an ash cloud which wrecked havoc on air travel in Europe. They worried that the ash cloud would damage aircraft engines if they attempted to travel through it. The ash cloud was produced by the eruption of a sub-glacial volcano in Iceland brought chaos to the European air industry between 14 and 21 April. Since then, disruption to flights has continued sporadically depending on the varying intensity of ash cloud and...
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... weather patterns. This had a huge effect on the airline industry, thousands of passengers had to make their way home overland, air operators have lost millions of pounds a day and some trade sectors have ground to a halt, and it was unclear for how long the volcano would continue to erupt. the ash cloud created the biggest air space closure since world war 2. Tui claimed that they were loosing around £5-6 million per day and the prime minister admitted the problem was so serious that...
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in 2018 the foreign holidays reached an all time high of 47 million, with spending habits hitting £45.4 billion and 292.1 million passengers flying out of the uk.
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in 2019 almost 20 years after its its inception, TripAdviser had 460 million people average monthly unique visitors to the site and over 830 million reviews covering 9.1 million hotels, restaurants, airline attractions and more.
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One major event which has had a huge effect on the travel and tourism industry is COVID-19. This is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The virus originated in china in December 2019 and rapidly spread worldwide by march. This has had a huge affect on travelling and has caused companies to loose out on millions of pounds. America’s travel industry is among the hardest hit. Not only has COVID-19 caused major companies to struggle it has caused millions of people to...
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lost their jobs through all industries not just the tourism. The U.S. Travel Association projects a loss of 4.6 million jobs through May. in total around 13 million people lost their jobs last year and around 100 million people lost jobs worldwide. The scary thing about this virus is that we don't know when it is going to end and how much more damage it will cause. the travel and tourism industry has already had such a huge affect from this and isn't going to get better until the virus has gone.
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we have no idea when this will be over however, we also don't know how people will react once it is over and if they feel safe going on holiday. Travel companies such as airline companies and accomodations could earn lots of money and make up for the loss because people may want to go on holidays and making up for the ones they have missed, however some people may not feel comfortable travelling so they could struggle making up the money they lost.
