How has the tourism industry changed since 1945?

Question

I am doing an assignment and i can't find nothing to do with the changes and i'm really really stuck, and unless i find anything i will fail!

Answer 1

During the war, petrol was rationed and people simply couldn't travel. It remained rationed for some time afterwards, which had an effect not merely on road transport but on air transport. Few people owned cars. Very few people indeed had ever flown. Food rationing was gradually phased out after the war, until the early 1950's, but that must have had some effect on the tourist industry, with people unable to have a wide choice of food and catering having to struggle with shortages. Even in the 1950s people had to cope with currency restrictions for travel abroad. Imagine going on holiday to foreign parts with a limit of 25 pounds per adult and less (I think it was ten pounds) for children to pay for everything! Foreign travel was in fact very rare, becoming more popular in the sixties and commonplace in the seventies. It worked both ways, of course, with foreign tourists coming to Britain as well as British people going abroad. At the same time standards of food improved, with the British being exposed to different cuisines and becoming more adventurous. It was accepted that in order to attract the mighty dollar accommodation had to become more luxurious and so North American standards became the accepted norm.

Back in 1945 the general idea of tourism was to stay within one's own country and visit relatives or stay in bed and breakfast accommodation or a boarding house. Caravan holidays were popular too and some British Rail disused train carriages were converted into holiday accommodation. A seaside holiday with bucket and spade enjoying such attractions as the pier, the Punch and Judy show and perhaps a few fairground attractions was most people's idea of a good time. Then Billy Butlin opened his famous holiday camps in the fifties and they became immensely popular. Gradually people acquired their own transport and became more adventurous generally and tourism gradually developed into a major industry, with the English Tourist Board, the Welsh Tourist Board, the Scottish Tourist Board and the London Tourist Board setting up to promote tourism to the UK.

Answer 2

Get yourself down to the library, and get some books out - there are lots out there to write about.
For starters, there are aircraft now which completely changed the face of tourism. Instead of just having domestic holidays, international tourism is now most popular thanks to planes.
Suggested reading GNVQ Intermediate/ Advanced Leisure and Tourism Management books. I assume your assignment is on a college level as opposed to University. If it is Uni, then I would have to suggest other books

Answer 3

If it's for the uk, i would suggest that the uk seaside bucket and spade holiday is nowhere near as popular as going abroad. The package holiday has become the in thing. There are now budget airlines, so foreign travel is more widely available.

This link answers most of it
http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/tourism/industry/activity/history.htm

Answer 4

Before World War II travel for recreational reasons was something that was done almost exclusively by the very rich. In the late 20th Century the middle classes in western countries got more leisure time and began to be able to afford to travel.

Answer 5

I can only answers this in terms of how I would handle the assignment.

I think there is four main points since the war.

1. The change in pattern where people holiday.
The traditional pattern of people holidaying in their home country verse the package holiday abroad.

2. The number of people holidaying.
The development of the package holiday over the traditional "rich people" activity of holidaying

3. The development of Transportation/Construction/Technology
Modes of transport i.e charter aircraft to shift large numbers of people quickly to more and more remote parts of the world. Construction of beaches, villages, towns, cities, islands, Countries to cater to tourisim. Development of techology as to how you purchase these packages i.e development of internet to see your hotel, resort, city in which you will be visiting or reporting on.

4. How Terrorism currently affects tourism and will continue to do so in the future.
The changing pattern in where people currently holiday/visit verses the security measures to permit you to do this safely.

* you should be able to look at the holiday companies websites, many of them should detail passenger numbers, similar Airlines should have these. They would keep metrics on business users verses leisure users.

I hope this helps

Answer 6

international tourism as a result of aeroplane travel, seaside resorts in the uk have weakened as its easier to fly to places such as spain that are warmer than blackpool, transport is the biggest difference

Answer 7

well there was non before that and people then started to travel after that mainly to hot places

Answer 8

The INTERNET! that's how we book travel & how we research new places

Answer 9

think..... evolution.. transport... 1945... airplanes....... tourism........ travel agents, tour guides... sheesh... gimme that paper... lol

Answer 10

.......................... now you can see where 1945 tourists went ............. earlier movement was restricted ,less planes less hotels . no information , food problems ........ so much is there now ........... everything on Internet ......... book hotels ,seats ,etc etc ............ soviet block .......... west block ..... etc ......