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Car ownership in the UK reached 11 million
In 1970, the amount of people buying cars went up 11 million. This helped the tourism industry increase as more people were able to drive places. -
1970 Introduction of the Boeing 747 'jumbo jet'
on 30th September, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plan. The first flight took place on February 9th, 1970. -
1970 Concorde
Concorde is a British-French aircraft. Concorde made its first transatlantic crossing on September 26th 1973. Both British airways and Air France was flying the Concorde to separate destinations. It has a max speed over twice the speed of sound at Mach 0.24. however, the noise and operations expense limited its service, financial losses led to both airlines to cut routes.operations with air France was ceased in May 2003, and by British airways October 2003. -
1985 Ryanair
Ryanair is set up by the Ryan family with a share capital of £1, and staff of 25. The first cabin crew recruits had to be under 5ft 2in, so that they was able to operate in the tiny cabins of the aircrafts. They launched their first route in July, with daily flights on a 15-seater Bandeirante aircraft. -
1986 The number of package holidays topped 10 million for the first time
In 1986 there was a huge growth in holiday packages. New technology made it easy or people to make reservations. There was also a growth in the holiday packages sold in travel agents. -
Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet
In 1989, the internet was invented. Allowing all companies in the tourism industry to promote their services and product. This also allows online based companies -
No-frills airlines have taken off
The European Council relaxed the rules throughout the 1990 and 1980's. This was to create a common aviation area across Europe. This allowed low-cost airlines including EasyJet and Ryanair to enter the market. -
1994 Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel is one the biggest engineering projects ever undertaking in the UK. It took over 5 years to complete. It is the longest underseas tunnel in the world. 13,000 workers from England and France collaborated to do the vision. It's been named one of the seven wonders of the modern world. -
25.7 million overseas came to Britain, spending more than £12 billion
in 1998, 25.7 million tourists came to the UK from abroad. This boosted the tourism industry and boosted revenue. -
2000 The Beach
In 2000, Leonardo Di Caprio stared in a film called the beach. The film's iconic cinematography inspired millions of tourists to visit the beach. The beach is called Maya Bay Beach, which is located in Thailand. -
Lord of the Rings
In 2001, The Lord of the Rings was filmed in New Zealand. So called 'Tolkein Tourism'. This led to a touirst annual increase of 40% between 2000 and 2006. This made it increase from 1.7 million to 2.4 million -
1995 EasyJet
EasyJet was founded in March 1995 by businessman Stelios Haji-Loannou. The first EasyJet flight took off on 10th November which was from London- Luton to Glasgow. -
2008 Mamma Mia
The film Mamma Mia that features Meryl Streep was made on the Greek Island of Skopelos. Since the film, tourism in Greece has increased because people wanted to go to the spot they made the film . tourists visiting the island made the Greece recover from their financial crash. -
2010-2014 Growth in the Tourism Industry
In 2010, there was a drop in the number of foreign holidays, they dropped to 36.4. The air travel also dropped down to 210.3 million. By 2014, numbers reached 38.5 million holidays abroad and 35.5 million was spent on holidays. -
2010 Icelandic Ash Cloud
A series of volcanic eruptions Eyjafjallajokull, which caused an ash cloud. This also caused havoc on air travel in Europe. The ash cloud caused the largest air-traffic shutdown since world war 2. 107,000 flights were cancelled over an eight day period, affecting roughly ten million passengers -
Arab Spring
In 2011, Arab Spring political uprisings in Europe had a big effect on the amount of visitors coming from the UK. The numbers dropped to 47,000 in 2018. Before that it was 186,000 in 1996. -
2018 Brexit
As the decade ended, Brexit and the full effects it would have were very much unknown. In the aftermath, UK saw visitor numbers drop to the UK fall by 5.3%. It is still unknown how how Brexit will truly affect the travel industry both inside and outside of the UK, once we've left the EU. -
2019 TripAdvisor
In 2019, TripAdvisor had roughly 460 million monthly visitors on their website. They also had 830 million reviews covering 9.1 million hotels, restaurants, airline, attractions etc.
