The development of mass tourism from the 1930s

Question 1

Tourism for the wealthy

Answer 1

Pre 1918 few WC people had been able to take holidays.
Wealthy stayed at expensive hotels in seaside spa resorts - brochures often featured the health-giving qualities, sailing
Few people went abroad - reserved for the wealthy.

Question 2

Paid holidays

Answer 2

1930s saw huge growth in employees receiving paid holidays.

Question 3

Tourism in the 1930s

Answer 3

More popular - factories closed for two weeks in the summer.
Holidays to seaside resorts remained popular - holiday camps.
Railways offered day trips.

Question 4

Tourism and road transport

Answer 4

Growth in the affordability of cars - less reliant on train travel.
1936 - coaches transported 82million to rural parts of Britain.
1939 - 2million cars on the road, risen from 100,000 in 1919.
Caravanners, campers, hikers - 72,000 visiting Lake District 1930s.
Cheap hiking holidays made easier - Youth Hostel Association.

Question 5

Butlins

Answer 5

Mass WC tourism changed with the creation of holiday camps.
Skegness 1936 - ‘a weeks holiday for a weeks wages’.
1939 - Skegness and Clacton providing holidays for 100,000 visitors per year.
1960s - six more holiday camps built.
1970s - visitor numbers began to decline, people grew tired of the regimented nature and strict schedule of activities.

Question 6

Independent holidays

Answer 6

Car ownership grew - favoured holidays they arranged.
Caravanning - 20% of all holidays in the 1960s.

Question 7

Foreign tourism in the 1960s and 1970s

Answer 7

Post-war package holidays abroad - Spain.
1971 - 4million holidays abroad, rising to 13million 1981.
Saw a commensurate decline in British seaside resorts and holiday camps.