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Proving that Keswick is a Honey Pot Site

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Proving that Keswick is a Honey Pot Site

Specific Hypotheses:

To test the general aim to prove that Keswick is a honey pot site, we will investigate 3 specific hypotheses:

1. Keswick town centre caters mainly for its tourists in its land use.

2. Keswick demonstrates some of the key problems associated with honeypot sites.

3. Keswick attracts a high proportion of non-local visitors.

What is a honeypot site?

A honeypot site is a site where there is attractive scenery or historical interest, and tourists visit in large numbers. Honeypot sites are areas which attract many tourists. They are so called because tourists flock to these places like 'bees around honey'. …show more content…

In the UK alone, 10% of total employment is in the tourism sector.

People who have employment within the UK usually earn a high salary compared to the rest of the world and people consider that they must strike a work/life balance and hence spend more time on holidays.

The UK has seen a greater increase in car ownership since the 1950’s when in 1951 only 1 in 20 families’s had a car, by 1996 this figure had risen to 71% of all UK families owned at least 1 vehicle and by 2005 this figure has risen with many families owning 2 vehicles. The increase in car ownership obviously goes hand in hand with an improvement in the transport system of the UK which since the 1950’s has seen improvements in roads especially motorways and urban by-passes have resulted in driving times between places reduced and encourage people to travel more frequently and greater distances. Keswick has excellent an excellent road system and is easy to reach being just 20 minutes along the A66 trunk road from junction 40 of the M6 motorway.

As mentioned above a major factor for the increase in tourism in the Keswick area has been a change in lifestyle compared to the 1950’s, people are retiring early and living longer and are able to take advantage of their greater fitness, also many people due to retiring early and greater disposable income

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