Cornwall

Question 1

How is Cornwall the most popular tourist area in the uk?

Answer 1

• 4 million people visited in August alone

- it has 700km of coastline full of sandy beaches

Question 2

What’s the population in Cornwall?

Answer 2

540,000 but this number is slowly increasing

Question 3

Give some possible issues in Cornwall

Answer 3

• Coastal erosion
• overcrowding
• most employment there links to tourism and is often low payed

Question 4

What kind of jobs are there in Cornwall?

Answer 4

Medium to low pay jobs that are on a part time contract like m&s customer assistant and Superdrug sales assistant

Question 5

In what sector are most jobs in Cornwall in?

Answer 5

The tertiary sector

Question 6

Give ways the primary economy of Cornwall is in decline

Answer 6

• dairy farming reduced by 60% since 2000 largely due to falling milk prices
• collapse in tin prices led to closure of last tin mine in 1998
• China clay quarrying is more popular as its much cheaper
• new EU rules has led to fish stocks being depleted

Question 7

Give economic issues in Cornwall?

Answer 7

-Cornwall has the uk’s lowest weekly wage, £340 compared to
London’s £660
-most employment is a seasonal part time wage of £7 per hour
-there’s no knowledge economy, mainly low paid workers

Question 8

Give social issues in Cornwall

Answer 8

• buses serve 70% if the village but there are only 3-4 a day
• young people have to travel 30miles for 6th form
• only 35% of the villages have a doctors surgery and only open one morning a week

Question 9

Give some environmental issues in Cornwall?

Answer 9

• substandard living environment e.g. damp in homes

- the abandoned quarries have left an ugly wasteland

Question 10

How could Cornwall improve it’s economy?

Answer 10

• adding more tourist attractions
• make land cheaper to attract offices
• improve the transport infrastructure

Question 11

How popular was the Eden project when it first opened?

Answer 11

-over 1 million visited in the first 3 months of opening

Question 12

How has the Eden project appealed to schools?

Answer 12

Over 200,000 school children have visited

Question 13

How many have visited the Eden project since 2012?

Answer 13

13 million

Question 14

How is the Eden project expanded?

Answer 14

They are developing projects in China

Question 15

How did the Eden project attract more tourists?

Answer 15

30,000 came to east Anglia to see angelina jolie’s talk

Question 16

Where did the Eden project get a lot of it’s build money?

Answer 16

The government

Question 17

What projects are trying to attract tourists?

Answer 17

Farm shops, tourist accommodation and the Eden project

Question 18

What are the positives of the farm shops project?

Answer 18

• encourages farm diversification
• generates £700,000 per year
• Lobb Farm shop attracts 200,000 people per year
• sustainable and eco friendly

Question 19

Give the negatives of farm shops

Answer 19

It’s only got 12 full time jobs and 8 part time jobs

Question 20

Give positives about tourist accommodation in Cornwall?

Answer 20

• improves Cornwall’s economy as the tourists will then spend money
• means people can explore the rest of Cornwall and will keep bringing tourists

Question 21

Give a negative of tourist accommodation

Answer 21

The increase in barn conversions has led to reduced nesting places for birds like swallows

Question 22

Give positives of the Eden project

Answer 22

• has 700 employees and has made 3000 jobs in other sectors

- has generated 1billion for the economy

Question 23

Give some negatives of the Eden project

Answer 23

• 97% of visitors come by car increasing pollution

- visitor numbers are falling as people don’t come back once they’ve already been

Question 24

What project is best for Cornwall to invest it’s income?

Answer 24

Farm shops as it doesn’t ruin the environment and workers can earn a fair amount of money and it can continuously attract tourists yearly as it’s something they could do again