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1970 introduction of theBoeing 747 'jumbo jet'
The Boeing 747 is a commercial airliner which goes by the nickname 'Jumbo Jet'. The first widebody to ever be produced and is recognizable by many. The original version of 747 was two and a half times the size of Boeing 707. This was a common large commercial airlines in the 1960's. This was longer than the Wright brother's first flight, wider than a boulevard, and with a tail height as tall as a six-story building. The 747 entered service on January 22 in 1970. This improved passenger capacity. -
1970 the then number one UK tour operator Clarkson went into liquidation
The company was extremely successful but ran into financial difficulties and in 1972 was taken over by its major supplier of air travel, Court Line. Although, after two years,15th of August 1974, Court Line had fallen, taking down Clarkson's with at least £7million which was owed to 100,000 holidaymakers or more. This meant that there was one less business to provide travel to customers so then less people could go abroad which lowered economic growth of the industry. -
1976 Concorde came into service
London's Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris, the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously take flight on January 21, 1976. The London flight was headed to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris to Rio de Janeiro via Senegal in West Africa. At their speeds, the innovative Concordes flew way over the sound barrier at 1,350 miles an hour. This cuts air travel by more than half. This would of encouraged passengers to fly with them and if not more. -
1982 British people made 20million visits abroad
In the 1980's popular places to go abroad were places like Miami, London, Berlin, Australia and Poland. People have said no matter where you went on holidays it felt like the other side of the world. The planet has shrunk in the last 30 years. It is known that nearly all British kids in the 80's only stayed in the UK when going on holiday so going abroad made it seem so much different. People say that wherever you went it felt like a million miles away. This means airlines earnt less money. -
1985 Launch of Ryanair
Ryanair began running on July 8, 1985 with daily flights on a 15-seater EMB 110 Embraer Bandeirante turboprop aircraft, from Waterford to London Gatwick. Workers must be tall in order to be able to work in the tiny cabin of the aircraft. Waterford's first international scheduled air service, departed at 8pm with the return flight departing from Gatwick at 7pm. A new airline would make people want to try it out so there would of been an increase in people flying with them. -
1989 Tim Berners lee invented the internet
Tim Berners- Lee a British scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989. This is known as WWW, Tim Berners- Lee did this while working at CERN. Originally, the web was conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes across the world. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second in May 1990. This allowed people to be independent and book cheaper which means more flights. -
1994 EasyJet launched
EasyJet was founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou to offer low-cost fares in Europe. The first flights take off in November 1994 flying from Luton the Glasgow and Edinburgh. EasyJet is a low-cost carrier easyJet has established itself among the most significant airlines based in the United Kingdom by passenger numbers. An example of this is in 2022, EasyJet boarded roughly 36.9 million passengers in the UK. As Easyjet is a low-cost more people will book with them which will boost their money earnt -
1994 Channel tunnel opened
The Queen and France's President François Mitterrand opened the Channel Tunnel on May the 6th 1994. After travelling through the tunnel, which had taken eight year and billions of pounds to build, the Queen said it was one of the world's great technological achievements. This tunnel is the first land link between Britain and Europe since the last Ice Age around 8,000 years. This will grab peoples attention since it's the first to be made and the queen has been on it so people will want to go -
9/11 2001
On September 11th, nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes and purposely crashed two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of of the World Trade Center complex and a third plane into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. This is because the terrorists didn't have enough capacity to destroy USA's military so they targeted the Twin Towers. People were too scared to travel which led to a loss in money for all types of travel. -
1999 UK's government 's tourism strategy tomorrow's tourism launched
The government in the UK made a plan called "Tomorrow's Tourism" which had the goal to create a sustainable framework for the TT industry. In order to achieve sustainable development they aimed to promote environmentally friendly tourism practices. Also, partnerships had been built trying to pull together private, public and voluntary sectors for collaboration. With more people working together it would of attracted more therefore more money was earnt as more people were able to book aswell. -
2000 TV and Film 'Set-Jetting'
In the last 20 years tourism is encouraged TV and many films. Many people get the idea to visit a tourist attraction because of a film or something similar that they've seen. This continues to increase to this day. Within the last two decades there are many known films such as The Beach, Lord of the Rings, Mamma Mia and Game of Thrones. An example is ‘Tolkien Tourism.' Since places are being influenced more people will go and that place will benefit economically. -
2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
This Earthquake and Tsunami killed approximately 230,000 people and was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history. The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, which caused the tsunami, is estimated to have released energy equal to 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. This earthquake had struck 150 miles from the coast of Sumatra island and 31 miles below the ocean floor. Due to weather planes and other forms of travel would of stopped so they wouldn't be earning money at the time. -
2004 Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg is famous for being confounder and chief executive officer of Facebook. Facebook is the world's largest social network Web site. He founded the service in 2004 while he was at Harvard University with four other of his students and from this we learn he had a good education. Facebooks net worth is $1.125 trillion. Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's richest men with a net worth $184 billion. People could see pictures of holidays and choose to book to go which means more money. -
How British Travel Habits have Changed
In the year 2000 there were 36.7 million visits made and a total of £24.3 billion spent by UK residents heading abroad on holiday. Airports saw 178.6 million passengers pass through. Also, in 2005 the number had increased to 44.2 million and the amount spent was £32.2 billion. Lastly, the airport saw 226.9 million people flying out. However, there was a decrease in the number of money and people in the midway point of the last 20 years. This will affect the travel industry as less money is earnt -
Arab Spring 2011
The Arab Spring wave of pro- democracy protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 2010 and 2011. The wave began when protests in Tunisia and Egypt toppled their governments in quick succession, inspiring similar attempts in other Arab countries. Some people who like to travel can become paranoid from getting the news of protests so this can cause people to not want to go to certain places which can lead to them staying home and not flying out at all -
2020 Covid19
The Coronavirus disease known as Covid-19 is an infectious disease that led to people going on lockdown from late March 2020 until June 2020. After that there was another lockdown in January 2021 - July 2021. There was also another one from September 2020 to November 2020. This restricted people on where they could go and what they could do. The main forms of travelling were stopped to decrease the chance of getting covid so less money was earnt, less people wanted to travel.