✅Case Study - Stratford upon Avon Flashcards

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What are the infrastructural endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Bridging point
Served by Midlands and Chiltern trains
27 miles from Birmingham airport
On A422

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What are the physical endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Floodplain of River Avon

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What are the demographic endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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70.3% Christian
Average age of 44
97.5% speak English

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What are the environmental endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Medieval buildings

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What are the locational endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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35m above sea level
101 miles from London

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What are the economic endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Tertiary services

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What are the land use endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

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Urban environment

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What is a tourist place?

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Where flows of people and investment have shaped the character of the place

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What does tourism produce?

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A distinctive set of interconnections between places becsuse of its different relationship between producers and consumers

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The product sold at tourist sites it…

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…intangible

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What are the flows of people?

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Day trippers from Birmingham to Europeans eg French school groups to global visitors from USA and Japan

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What are the flows of investment?

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Locally based family business to national monies eg from UK Arts, M&S to Global investment from HSBC, McDonalds

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What is the relationship between producers and consumers?

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Direct, through shops, hotels, boat trips, Shakespeare tours

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What is the intangible product sold?

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Experience boat rides, Shakespeare tours, theatre visits, ghost walks

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How is income generated?

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Through flows of products, images, information and experiences

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What does the experimental nature of the product shape?

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The material and socio-cultural characteistics of the place itself, eg some traditional building, some very modern, new developments eg Premier Inn, Bell Court, has cosmopolitan feel