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GCSE	Edexcel Geography Specification A syllabus no.1312
B7 Managing Tourism	1  Growth in tourism
Chapter 7  pages 137- 140	Tomorrow's Geography  Mike Harcourt and Steph Warren, published by Hodder and Stoughton 0 340 79965 X
7.1 The causes of the rapid growth in tourism.
students should -   Identify major influences since the Second World War, which include: socio-economic - increase in car ownership, increase in leisure time and disposable income. technological developments - jet aircraft the development of new products - package holidays, holiday camps and long-haul destinations.
A mosque in the 19th century, a suitable object of tourism on a Cook's Tour.   Tourism - causes of rapid growth     A lifeguard watches over his charges on the wide, flat, but dangerous beaches near Bude, Cornwall   (2 lessons)     Revellers in Ayia Napa - the face of tourism for the young club-goer.	Causes of the growth in tourism   Using the sheet The Growth of Tourism since the 1960’s sort the data labels into three groups:    social changes   technical advances   features of the modern holiday   Make up an A4 sheet on The causes of the growth in tourism. Write a paragraph on each group to summarise your classification, and illustrate it with some of the data on pages 138-139.     The 'Grand Tour' and the first package tours   In the early 19th century the aristocracy, and the 'new money' from trade were caught up in a fashion to show their refinement by educating themselves in the artistic treasures of Europe. Young ladies, especially, were taken on a 'Grand Tour' of Europe to complete their education .. and perhaps meet an eligible young man! Such journeys were complicated and expensive in the days before railways, and were restricted to the very rich.  Later, English 'gentlemen' took skis to the Alps and strared the winter sports holiday!   Railways to the seaside It was the coming of the railways that gave Thomas Cook the opportunity to develop inclusive travel, where he started by inventing the return ticket. Day excursions gave way to travel with accommodation, and finally foreign travel. the link above tells the story.   The middle class go on holiday In the 20th century the better-off middle classes joined the rich in foreign travel. They had the time and the money for modest holidays, but most of their trips would have been organised by themselves, which involved skills not shared by the mass of the population.   The rapid growth of tourism since the 1960's The great social upheavals of the Second World War saw most of the class barriers breaking down, saw service people travel the world and gain wider visions and appetites, and, in the 1950's onwards, exposure to television .. and travel programmes. With the additions of technical advances, such as the jet airliner, that could deliver holidaymakers to the Mediterranean in a couple of hours, and the computer, which would revolutionise bookings and accounting, the modern travel business has come of age.
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