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Bank Holidays
During 1871, sir John Lubbock introduced the 'bank holiday act' with ideas of a day of work with pay. Many people use bank holidays to visit different attractions close by or weekends away which benefits many travel and tourism organisations contributing to the economy. -
Benidorm
During 1953 the mayor of Benidorm: Pedro Zaragaza appealed for a Bikini ban within this current destination, to increase the amount of inbound tourists within Benidorm. In 1966 the Alicante airport opened increasing inbound visitors at a capacity of millions -
Comet aircraft
The Comet was the worlds first passenger carrying air craft which was introduced in the 1960's, this air craft craft created a platform for other planes such as the boeing 727. -
Development or tourism act
in 1969 this act created tourists boards such as 'visit Britain' and 'Visit Scotland' which are boards that help promote inbound and domestic tourism within The United Kingdom. In addition these tourist boards help provide travel and tourism brands in Britain to succeed by an increase in customers due to great advertising by these brands. -
ATOL
ATOL was introduced to the travel and tourism sector in '1973', after a number of customers had been left stranded out of the country by flying with a company which had gone bust. This was originally created to cover package holidays and charter flows, but in 2012 ATOL now covers all overseas air holidays where a flight and accommodation have been booked together as well as flights booked seperatley -
work time
working time regulations 1998 regulate holidays. According to this regulation an employee should have daily breaks, night work and the maximum working day. These regulations allow an employee to book 28 paid holidays off a year. This provides a worker time to visit other attractions and to go on holiday -
rail
The number of rail journeys people took in Great Britain between 2010 and 2011 reaches a record of 1.16 billion, people now travel by rail then ever before meaning that train organisations will improve the service provide to maintain the amount of customers -
Dubai
Before the 1980's Dubai was classified as a desert without any rich top class attractions, howver in 1980 Dubai struck lots of oil which therefore allowed this place to earn out on lots of money, during late 1980's and early 1990's Dubai emerged into a major tourist attraction throughout the world, customers expect high luxury reasonable price. -
Ferries
Ferries being a mode of outbound tourism was introduced in 1955 with first two drive on drive off were opened in Eastern docks, within the first year it was estimated that ferries managed around '10,000' vehicles per year. This way people now realise they can travel overseas by other mode of transport and not just aircraft. -
Flexi time
Flexi hours has been recently introduced to everyday life, this means that during a work contarct the employee would been given a specific contract of hours to work howver flexi time allows the employee to choose when they work the contracted hours -
Dubai
Before the 1980's Dubai was classified as a desert without any rich top class attractions, howver in 1980 Dubai struck lots of oil which therefore allowed this place to earn out on lots of money, during late 1980's and early 1990's Dubai emerged into a major tourist attraction throughout the world, customers expect high luxury reasonable price.