Lake District

Question 1

Strategies to cope with Tourism

Answer 1

Extra traffic

• Improving public transport
• Public campaigns like ‘Give the driver a break’ encourage use of new, more frequent bus services
• Leaflets with bus routes offer discounts on cafés and lake cruises to bus or train ticket holders

Erosion of footpaths

• National Park Authority frequently change line of paths and walking trails to allow time for vegetation to recover
• At Tarn Hows, several routes have been covered with soil and reseeded so vegetation can grow to bing soil; main route gravelled

Wildlife and Farmland

• Signs to remind visitors to take litter home/ close gates / dog leads
• Bins at popular sites like Lake Windermere / Scafell Pike

Question 2

Maintain Tourism after decline in 1990s

Answer 2

Official tourism strategy for Cumbria spend £1.5 billion a year for extra two million visitors by 2018

• More frequent trains from cities like Manchester and London
• Increase park and ride routes
• Farms encouraged to have more extreme attractions like clay pigeon shooting, archery and quad biking
• Timeshare developments (house share) so people all year round

Question 3

Reasons for Growth as a Tourist Resort

Answer 3

• Lake Windermere is largest lake in England (pleasure boat ‘steamer’ cruises / speed boats / hire rowing boats)
• Large mountains and hills like Scafell Pike (hiking, rock climbing and pony trekking)
• Beatrix Potter and Wordsworth museums (cultural attractions) and picturesque village like Keswick (shop, eat ice-cream and B&Bs)