🎒Uk Tourism Lake District

Question 1

How many visitors does Lake District get a year?

Answer 1

15 million

Question 2

Why is Lake District so popular?

Answer 2

Scenery such as Lake Windermere and Scafell Pike
Activities such as bird watching and rock climbing
Cultural attractions such as Beatrix Potter museum

Question 3

List the impacts tourism leaves

Answer 3

Traffic congestion, erosion of footpaths and dropping litter

Question 4

List the 5 strategies of coping with the impacts of tourists

Answer 4

Footpath maintenance 
Public transport
Restricted parking zones 
Raising awareness
A 10mph speed limit

Question 5

Footpath maintenance?

Answer 5

Rebuilding paths and limiting access to restricted to reduce effects on vegetation and paths

Changing the line of the paths and using more hard wearing materials
Tarn Hows eroded paths have been covered with soil and reseeded and main route has been gravelled

Question 6

Public transport?

Answer 6

Been improved and subsidised
Langdale Rambler bus service in which visitors are encouraged to use bus instead of bringing their cars to national park
“Give the driver a break” campaign which offers discounts at cafes for people with bus or train tickets

Question 7

10mph speed limit?

Answer 7

Introduced in 2005 on lake Windermere

Had become congested with speed boats and noise was spoing lake for others

Question 8

Raising awareness

Answer 8

Posters and leaflets at tourist information centres and visitor centres
Signs to remind to take litter home and covered bins are provided at most popular sites
Campaigns to encouraged to enjoy country side responsibly such as closing gates and keeping dogs on lead

Question 9

How is Lake Dsitrict National Park going to make sure it keeps attracting tourists?

Answer 9

Cumbria Wants to attract extra 2 million visitors by 2018
Get 1.5£ billion a year in tourism
Public transport will be improved so more accessible
Widespread advertising
Farms encouraged to give services such as quad biking and archery alongside traditional farming
Timeshare developments are to be increased (own a cottage for example at diff times of year with diff people)
Aims to encourage tourism in areas outside NP such as regenerating ports in Whitehaven

Question 10

How much GDP does tourism make up for in Lake Disteict

Answer 10

91%