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Car ownership
By September 1970 there were more cars on the roads in the UK than ever before by the end of 1970 there were in fact 13.5 million car owners. This had an effect on travel and tourism as there was more demand for by public transport. Also at this time petrol prices started to increase. -
The Boeing Jumbo Jet 747
The Boeing Jumbo Jet was first made in December of 1969 but first flew on the 22nd of January in 1970. During the flight the aircraft had to make an emergency stop in Heathrow because they had technical issues. Onboard they had 334 passengers. After 6 months it became very popular and already had 1 million passengers and then the total number of passengers they had that year was 7 million. This affected t&t by being able to get more holiday makers on the one flight. -
Number one UK Tour operator Clarkson went into liquidation
Clarkson's were a package tour operator company who were big in the 1960s-1970s. But in 1973 they ran into money worries but late that year they were taken over by a major supplier air travel company. But after two years the Company creased trading with 7m owning the 100,000 customers. This affected travel and tourism by Thomson becoming the number one tour operator -
Ryanair
Ryanair was first launched in 1985 , it is Europe's largest airline company with 2,400 flights daily, and they take about 154 million passengers aboard a year . Ryanair started with just one aircraft and 25 members of staff and it went from there. That affected travel and tourism because they were the cheapest airline to fly with so people with low income can go on a holiday because the prices are not to high. -
World wide tourist arrivals topped 400 million
This affected travel and tourism by more people were travelling and creating more income in different countries around the world. -
Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, he was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments instead of writing the information down. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were precise as web technology spread. -
The INTA sun holiday company ceased trading
Harry Goodman was the founder of INTA sun parent International Leisure company. He develop low- cost package holidays and created a number of iconic travel brands. He sold flights for two-week holidays to Miami Beach for £199 when it was more money to fly to the destination. He also created a pan-European low-cost airline, Air Europe, before Ryanair and easyJet became popular. -
Easyjet Part 2
This impacts the travel and tourism by the airline being a low-cost company, it has given a chance for many more people, as they can travel to destnations that other cost airlines don't do and you are paying less money . -
Easyjet lanched part 1
EasyJet was launched in 1994, designed to be a low-cost airline similar to Ryanair to offer low-fares flights in Europe. EasyJet are the largest shareholder as of 2014 and has around 200 aircrafts, in Gatwick they are in 28 different bases. In 2014 they served at least 65 million passengers and is the second largest carrier according to the passenger number. The most recent figures are available from the CAA is the Civil Aviation Authority website. -
Channel tunnel opened
The Channel Tunnel, which is mostly called the Channel or the Euro Tunnel, is a railway tunnel that lies underneath the water of the English Channel and connects Great Britain with the mainland France. This can affects travel and tourism in a good way, which can bring more French people into Britain and British people to France. -
9/11 part 1
On September the 11th in New York city terrorists 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 2001.9/11 also had a huge impact on the update of security at airports. -
9/11 part 2
You could take mostly everything with you on holiday but after the attack they introduced explosive detection systems nationwide to screen all bags for explosives. And though the years they have improved technologies, now they have a full-body scanner, and things that can hurt someone are banned from hand luggage. -
Indian ocean earthquake and tsunami 1
In 2004 on Boxing day, Thailand was hit with a tsunami which caused huge disasters around the whole country. The magnitude 9.1 quake ruptured a 900-mile stretch of fault line where the Indian and Australian tectonic plates meet. It was a powerful megathrust quake, occurring where a heavy ocean plate slips. It sadly killed more than 100,000 people and pounding the city into rubble. The Tsunami killing tens of thousands of people. -
Indian ocean earthquake and tsunami 2
Eight hours later, the tsunami claimed its final casualties on the coast of South Africa. In all nearly 230,000 people were killed that day. -
Mamma Mia
The very popular film Mamma Mia featuring Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep was made on the Greek island of Skopelos.This brought in a boom of tourism in Greece, seeing a huge increase in the number of visitors to the area and helping the Greek after the financial crash. -
Trip adviser
Trip adviser is the worlds biggest travel platform they help 463 million travellers each month make every trip their best trip ever. They cover reviews 9.1 million hotels, restaurants, airline attractions and more. -
Icelandic ash cloud
In 2010 a series of volcano eruptions in Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland caused an ash cloud which caused havoc on air travel in Europe. All UK flights had been grounded from the midday to 6pm due the ash cloud.Air operators have lost millions of pounds a day and some trade sectors have ground to a halt, and it was not uncertain for how long the volcano would continue to erupt. The ash cloud caused the largest air-traffic shutdown since World War II. -
Covid
All the way though 2020 and to 2021 Covid 19 has had a huge impacted on the Travel and tourism around the world. In February 2020 we first heard about covid .Then following March the Uk we were put into lockdown for 6 mouths which affected every normal every day things. For example shopping, exercise and work but it not only affect Britain but the rest of the world. And as for travel and tourism the planes stopped and the airport closed which never happened. Total dealths of covid are 5,215,745 -
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