Blackpool Resort DevelopmentSTARTER: Swap books and look at each others’ photos-

1. Add any other reasons for these places being tourist attractions2. Which reasons are human , which ones are physical.

3. Write me a memo reminding me why I went on these holidays. Develop 2 of your points!

Outline the physical and human attractions in the photo. [4]

4 minutes!

Quick activity

Front, Middle and back- words

Exploration, InvolvementDevelopment, ConsolidationStagnation, DeclineRejuvenation, Consolidation

Write your words in a sentence that makes sense.

Match up these pictures with the new terms

Blackpool and the Butler Model1. Draw an x, y axis2. X axis= Time from ‘1720 up to 2009’3. Y axis= Visitor numbers up to 16,000,0004. 1780=1,000 visitors5. 1846= 4,000 visitors6. 1863=600,0007. 1872= 850,0008. 1931= 3,850,0009. 1975= 16,000,00010. 1987=10,000,00011. 2004= 11,000,00012. Link up the points but not in a straight line.13. Colour code and label these different eras:

1720-1780= Exploration1781-1846= Involvement1856-1870= Development1872-1932= Consolidation1972- 1986= Stagnation1987-1990= Decline2003- 2009= Rejuvenation

14. Match up these statements with the graph:New Opera house opened0- Britain’s largest cinema and TheatreBlackpool tower builtM55 opened Only 4 hotels 127 Hectares of brownfield sites redevelopedThe first railway opened£80mil coastal defence scheme3 railway stations Average annual hotel occupancy rate reduced to 22%Promenade built along the seafront.

15. Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data!

16. Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers changed over time.

17. Why do you think that Blackpool went into Decline? (Think about where you might go on holiday)

18. Imagine you are town planners and your tourist town has gone into stagnation- what would you do to increase the tourist numbers again? What would you build/develop?

Questions- what questions have you got about this model or Blackpool?

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What is happening at each of these stages???

What are the reasons?

Homework

1. Find out a definition for each of these types of holidays

2. Find 2 different examples for each type of holiday

3. Explain why people might go on these different types of holidays.

Adventure, Educational, Self-catering, Package

Plenaries on a plate

How does Blackpool fit with the Butler Model?Match up the key terms with definitions

Disposable income When it can be maintained without harming the environment, culture or economy

Backpacking holidays Low-cost, independent, international travel.

Adventure Holiday Extra money that you can spend on luxuries

Self catering holiday Holiday that involves exploration, challenge and thrills

Rejuvenation Holiday where you have to cook everything yourself

Sustainable A stage when a resort has regenerate to attract tourists

Questions from last lesson continued….

1. Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data!

2. Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers changed over time.

3. Why do you think that Blackpool went into Decline? (Think about where you might go on holiday)

4. Imagine you are town planners and your tourist town has gone into stagnation- what would you do to increase the tourist numbers again? What would you build/develop?

Blackpool Development DVD

Tourism so far consolidation work

• Tarsia

Questions

1. Describe how visitor numbers changed over time in Blackpool. Use Data!

2. Give 3 reasons why the visitor numbers increased over time.

3. Give 2 reasons why the numbers decreased. When?4. Explain the seven stages of the Butler model.5. Explain why people might go on adventure holidays.6. Why do people who live in HICs have more money

to spend on holidays now?

• Timings! A minute a mark

June 2012

June 2011

June 2011

1. What is your magic sentence?2. What are your 3 reasons for the growth?3. What 3 facts are you going to use for this?