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The Boeing 747
The 747 was released on the 17th of May 1963, it is the world's most recognisable aircraft. The Boeing 747 first flown commercially in the 1970's, and held the capacity record of 37 years, this is because they were the first aircraft to ever have an upper deck. This aircraft had a huge impact of the travel and tourism industry as all the companies wanted to be like them. Now most companies use this aircraft as a way to manufacture their aircrafts so that they a carry more passengers on board. -
Car Ownership in the UK
In the 1960's transportation was to the bare minimum. By the 70's 75% of all passengers were travelling by private vehicles and less money was invested in public transport. People started to buy their own vehicles as they found that they had more freedom regarding where they could go. This increased tourism as people were able to travel to different places they wouldn't normally be able to access and allowed the individuals to manage their own time without restrictions. -
The Package Holiday Revolution
Package holidays started in the 1948 but became very popular in the 1972, as the cost of a package holiday was at a good price knowing that someone else was organising the holiday for you and you wouldn't have the stress of bookings. Through out the decades package holidays has became even more popular as most tour operators/travel agent offer them now, and people find that it can be cheaper to go through a package deal than separately. -
The British Economy
In 1981 the first 11 mount Britain was able to attract 11 million overseas visitors, meaning we earned over £2.8billion to the country. Home tourist spend around £4 billion on UK attraction, so this means in this year the economic side of things would have been extremely good. The amount of money that this brings to the country would increase the amount of travellers in as they think that the place must be good as it's bring millions of people into the country to see these places. -
Launch of Ryanair
Ryanair was set up by a group of Irish business men, including Tony Ryan, who it was named after. Ryanair was classed as the low budget airline, and is also still to that name. In the 1985 they would offer half the prices of BA and Aer Lingus returns, so that they would have gained more passengers. This had an impacted on travel as lots of people were impressed with their prices and wanted to travel to places with Ryanair. -
Tim Berners-Lee invented the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee who is an scientist invented the world wide web in 1989. The web was apparently there to share information between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. The internet has an affect on tourism because places can be promoted, and people can see different sites that they might want to see. Now with the internet people can book their own flights and hotels online. Recommendation from other customers can be seen online which can be very useful to other people. -
Easyjet Launch
Easyjet is a British low-cost airline headquartered at London Luton Airport. They offer 1024 routes in more than 36 countries. Sir Stelios Haji-Loannou is the owner and founder of the low cost airline. Easyjet had/has such a good impact on travel and tourism because the flights are so cheap. Passengers are more persuaded to fly as the cost of the tickets are well reasonable priced. To be able to deliver low fares Easyjet are operational efficiency and leading positions in primary airports. -
Channel Tunnel Opened
The Channel Tunnel was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and French president Francois Mitterrand on the 6th May 1994. You can get the train from St Pancras and it can take you to either Paris, Brussels or Amsterdam. 4.5 million UK tourist use the tunnel every year making the tunnel worth around £140 billion per year to the UK and European economies. This tunnel has helped the travel industry as people find it way much easier to use this, as there no baggage claim so it make it a quicker experience. -
UK government's tourism strategy Tomorrow's Tourism Launched
The Launch of Tomorrow's Tourism was by Bob Cotton. He was a tourism adviser, he studied hotels and catering at Surrey University. This helped the tourism sector because they helped companies improve there destinations to get the best experiences for customers. Not only are they there for people's benefits but for the destinations attracting tourism. They want location such as landmarks, attractions and castles to look there best. -
9/11
On September 11 2001, four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist was carried out by Al-Qaeda against the United States. The plane crashed into the two twin towers and had a huge impact of New York City. This attack impacted the travel industry as people didn't want to fly on planes because they thought it wasn't safe. After this attack NYC took a huge drop in visitor as people thought this city was to dangerous as it was a big target, there was 1.1 million drop in visitors between 2000 and 2001 -
Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
On the 26th December 2004, there was an underwater earthquake in the Indian Ocean which led to large tsunami waves reaching 30m tall. This event affected 14 countries causing widespread and destruction making it $508million of damage. Sadly 250,000 people died and left 1.7 million homeless. This affected many tourist as people had there holidays cancelled, there was so much damage so it had to be rebuilt. Also people were terrified that it might happen again, so they didn't want to run the risk. -
Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia was produced on the Greek island Skoplos in 2008. Mamma Mia is a fantastic romantic/musical film, and one of the most successful films of all time. This film had an major impact on tourism in Greece as thousand and thousands of people viewed this island because of Mamma Mia. This helped with the Greek recovery after there financial crash as this film brought a lot of popularity to the island so they gained a huge amount of money. -
Icelandic Ash Cloud
In 2010, there was a vary of volcanic eruptions in Eyjafjallajokull. There was a huge ash cloud in the air all around Europe. This affected travel as airport crew was worried that the ash would damage the aircraft engines. At the time it affected 107,000 flights/ roughly ten million passengers as flights were cancelled. -
Arab Spring
In 2011 political uprisings in Egypt, and this affected the visitor numbers from the UK to the country. In 1996 there was 186,000 visitors, but then in 2018 it took a massive drop in visitor to 47,000. This political advent affected the travel to the country so this means there would of been a drop of the money income. -
COVID-19
In 2019, there was an world wide virus going round called COVID-19. This virus affected billions of people, people were getting ill and sadly passing away. COVID-19 brought the world to lock down, if you had COVID you had to isolate so it couldn't be spread around. COVID-19 stop travel happening as you wasn't able to fly abroad because it was by law that you could only travel a certain distance. It affected tourism as every small tourism business was shut down. -
Ukraine and Russian War
In 2022, there was a tremendous attack between Ukraine and Russia. It caused lots of damage to the countries and injured/killed many people. This affected tourism as Russia has already put up high oil prices and transportation cost, so this meant disruption of travel in Eastern Europe. Also, the government said that it wasn't safe for us to travel to both countries and if you was there to leave.