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Introduction of budget airlines
A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline mostly referred to as no frills, budget or discount airline, and is an airline that is operated with an especially high emphasis on minimising operating costs and without some of the traditional services and amenities provided in the fare. This has helped families that are on a budget enjoy a holiday and make short haul flights cheaper. The first budget airline was called Pacific Southwest Airlines. -
Income
Since 1968, there has been an increase in income inequality, reaching its 1947 level in 1982 and increasing further since then. The increase was 16.1 percent from 1968 to 1992 and 22.4 percent from 1968 to 1994. This shows that the income rate has made for better way of living and the rates on what people need to live off -
Development of Tourism Act
The Development of Tourism Act formed in 1969 it is a British Tourist Authority and tourist boards for England, Scotland and Wales. The Development of Tourism Act and English Tourism Council have merged and turned into Visit Britain. they created the Act to giving financial assistance out of public funds for the provision of new hotels and the extension and improvement of existing hotels. -
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. -
Taxes
The world suffered a recession during the 1970, due to the energy crisis, leading to low costs and prices. That's when mass tourism emerged. Travelling went from being something only for an high end group to become a leisure activity within the reach of many. -
Privatisation
Privatization is to ensure the quality of a travel experience as well as maintain the beauty and preservation of a destination. Traditionally, tourism has focused on publicly managed national attractions such as, National Parks and Forests, but public agencies are not able to meet the demand of specific tourists like recreational. Many of the tourism destinations are operated under a mass tourism framework. -
Noise pollution
Noise Pollution is can be vehicles, aircraft, industrial machines, loudspeakers etc. When used at high volume, some other appliances also contribute to noise pollution, like television, transistor, radio which can disturb animal life or human life. In Cyprus they reported that “We realise that playing loud music creates temporary profits for some, but the damage created to our tourism product is many times bigger and will have a long-term negative impact on everyone,” argued STEK. -
Protest camps
Protest camps have emerged around the world as a very visible form of protest. Part and parcel of new social movement activism for 40 years, they are important sites for their identity creation, expression, political contention. this affects tourism by stopping transport on the road to move if the prtests are on the road. -
Air passenger duty
Air Passenger Duty is a duty in where the UK government charges on the number of passengers from a UK or Isle of Man Airport on an aircraft that has an permitted take-off weight of more than 5.7 tonnes or more than twenty seats.
this has affected tourism by outbound tourism, as traditional economic the government predicts that the higher the price of a good, the lower the number of people are willing to pay for the holiday. -
Opening of the Channel tunnel
The opening of the tunnel helped tourists from France and the UK travel to and from their countries without needing to go by plane or boat. This has made boths countries rain in more tourism because of the stright forward way of travveling there by couch or car. -
Online Check ins
Alaska Airlines was the first to offer online check-in to the public. The system was first offered on a limited basis starting in the second quarter of 1999 an only able on certain flights in the quarter to test out how it got on proved to be very sucessful and in the 2000 other airlines like British airways and Lufthansa Group followed suit. -
Customer Lifestyles
With technology being such a big aspect of our life's customer styles are being better informed on what they are buying so they it is becoming more value for the money they pay. jobs are paying more these so people are more likely to spend it on things like holiday with the demand on a raise each year. -
Planning regulations
planning regulations are raiding growing from the demand to travel. Urban tourism has brought great pressure to the historic centres, it has been threaten their protection and proper functioning. The planning regulations are used for to help situations of over tourism in places that need to be clear or protected -
Introduction of congestion charges
Congestion charging can not only stop transport that does need to go in that desired direction and reduce congestion in cities. The revenues made could also provide an additional source of financing and funding of public transport and low-carbon transport. this now covered a 22 square kilometre area, but had almost doubled in size in February 2007. Drivers pay a charge of £8 to enter the zone between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m,Monday to Friday. -
The start of Smart Motorways
Smart Motorways were introduced by Highways England - a government-owned company. According to the RAC and other motorway companies, their objective was “to manage traffic in a way that minimised environmental impact, cost and time to construct by avoiding the need to build additional lanes.” -
Airport expansion
Airport expansion helps regional flights provide competitive advantage to the international tourism market. Flying becomes cheaper and easier at a time when the domestic tourism, hospitality, and leisure industries before COVID 19 happened -
Widening motorways
Widening motorways will help bigger vehicles like truck and lorries to go on the motorway and have move room to move on and off the motorway.The Government is focused on tackling congestion on the strategic roads.As almost 90% of congestion is in towns and citiesmaking the motorways and A roads wider just moves traffic into already-congested urban areas -
Emissions
Tourism is responsible for roundabout 8% of the world's carbon emissions. From plane flights and boat rides to souvenirs and lodging, various activities contribute to tourism's carbon footprint.it is destroying places like the artic with icebergs melting then that is causing place Venice to become flooded and could be under water soon. -
Intoduction
On this timeline i will be explaining the technology , political legal , environmental and product/service and how they have come over the years and the events. -
Bibloghapy
http://leannestravelandtourisminfo.weebly.com/key-developments-from-the-1960s
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1969/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/17304029/who-invented-smartmotorways/#:~:text=Smart%20Motorways%20introduced,need
https://aviation.direct/en/online-check-in-how-long-has-it-been-there
https://www.tutor2u.net/business/reference/social-change-consumer-lifestyles-and-buying-behaviour
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1996/demo/ -
Bibloghapy 2
https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/travelling-for-pleasure-a-brief-history-of-tourism
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/united-kingdom-air-passenger-duty
https://www.mdpi.com
https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/
https://journals.sagepub.com/
https://www.unwto.org/news/tourisms-carbon-emissions-measured-in-landmark-report-launched
https://byjus.com/physics/noise-pollution-prevention
https://neweconomics.org/2020/09/the-dodgy-economicsbehind-expanding airports
www.readingchannel-tunnel
