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In 1970's there was a massive increase of 16% in oversea visitors to 6.69 million in the UK. People from all over started travelling to countries they wanted to visit.
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In 1970's there were a Spring/ Summer increase to places less know to Britain and also short stays in the Winter and Autumn time because flights were offered to customer from all over to. The prices of flights were £32.50 each and also with a package which was including everything it helped customers more which made them want to book to go more places if they could afford it.
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The Boeing 747 is the most successful jetliners in the world and still is today. The Boeing can fit 366 passengers in one flight. This will always be a well know aircraft.
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Ryan air all began in the 1980's, when they first started with a share capital of £1 and just 25 staff, the cabin crew had to be less than 5 ft 2 inch.The first flight was from Dublin to London Luton in May. In the first year of operation the aircraft carried 82,000 passengers!
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The World Travel Market started in 1980 in London. The show took place at the Olympia London and was opened by the Duke of Kent and Miss World. There will 350 exhibitors and 7,7753 trade visitors attending. Ever since this day the World Travel Market keeps on extending and getting bigger.
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In 1980 there was a massive growth in package holidays so lots more familes and and also a massive growth in high street agents being used to book holidays.
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This was a huge event in the 1990's! The channel tunnel is one of the biggest engineering projects in the UK. It took more than 5 years to complete and with 13,000 workers from England and France collaborating to get the imagine right. The Tunnel is one of the seven wonder of the modern world and a fact is the tunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world to.
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Easy Jet is know for low cost flights but it all began in 1994, it started with 70 people and the company was based in London. With in the first year of Easy Jet reportedly carried 40,000 passengers.
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In the UK the most popular places to travel since 1996-2016 is France and Spain, The holidays to Spain have been increasing every year by 87% but France has not been and now are the fewer countries people go on holiday to. Germany is also in the top 10 that are popular for holiday makers this might be because of older generations living there and people want to see the sites. Two holiday destination that are no longer in top 10 are Belgium and Turkey.
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Films was getting very popular in the 2000's especially after Leonardo DiCaprio's film was a massive hit after Titanic and then he played in " The beach" the film was based in Thailand. The film inspired millions of tourist to visit the Maya Bay beach. The beach came so popular they had to be temporarily closed.
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Over the last 20 years the growth of social media have increased. The internet is full with apps, social media chats such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and these apps are used more than ever.
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Social media has helped a lot of people with work, ideas because if you put #travel, loads of ideas of holidays will come up from people that have traveled the world and posted it online, you can also read reviews from other peoples experiences so if they had a bad time at least you don't have to waste your money.
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A awful event happened on September the 11th in 2000, This event caused damage to the travel industry with less people visiting every year. In 2000 there were 6.8 million visitors were as in 2001 there were 5.7 visitors but as years has gone on the numbers have increased. In 2018 13.5 million visitors visited New York city.
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Icelandic Ash Cloud was a ash cloud which wreaked havoc on air travel in Europe.The worries that the ash would damage aircraft engines if they attempted to travel through the ask cloud. The ask cloud caused the largest air-traffic shutdown since World War 2. 107,000 flights were cancelled over an eight day period, roughly ten million passengers.
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One of the biggest events in television history was the Game of thrones, the film has inspired travel to it's the filming locations.The most popular location was Dubrovnik in Croatia which has the King's Landing has seen a surge in popularity over the years.
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There were several large scale global events during the last 20 years that had a big effect on the way people traveled different such as economic events to moments that shook the world, they all made us reassess how we approached our family holidays, from Mumbai to London to Africa.
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Weekend getaways have become extremely popular over the years, the average length of a holiday has dropped from 10 nights to 7 nights in 2018. The decrease can be attributed in part to the popularity and accessibility of European cities for a long weekend break, the most popular weekend get away's are Paris, Amsterdam and Rome. Over the years it has also become easier to book a trip for a weekend because online shows deals which make it easier to book.
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Brexit and the full effects started and it was still unknown on everything that was going to happen as the decade started, then the UK's decision was to leave European Union saw visitors number to the UK by 5.3% in 2018. Most foreign visitors saw a total number of visitors drop from 9 million in 2011 to 5.4 million in 2016. The votes over the last two years have increased 2.8% for people voting
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In 2011 Arab Springs political uprisings in Egypt had a detrimental effects on visor number from the UK to the UK to the country. Visitor number from the UK dropped to 47,000 in 2018 from high of 186,000 in 1996 and the total number of foreign visitors drop 9 million in 2011 to 5.4 million in 2016.
