The development of Benidorm
and Blackpool as a tourist resorts
LO: To be able to apply the Resort life
cycle model (Butler) to a tourist resortcase study Benidorm and Blackpool
Starter: recap from last lesson
Which picture would you link to each stage
and why?????
Location of Benidorm
Benidorm today. Watch this video clip.
List the attractions
http://www.benidormspotlight.com/news/2009/ben_vid_201009.ht
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The development of Benidorm as a
tourist resort….
• Using the information on the double sided
sheet either:
1. create a time line showing the stages in the
development of the resort and refer to which
stage of the model this would be
2. Annotate a butler models showing the dates
and developments of the stages of
development.
Blackpool
Decline?
• The heyday of the fifties when whole towns would decamp to the
Fylde Coast for a fortnight at a time is now long gone. A generation
of steady decline saw visitor numbers fall from 16 million per year in
1972 to just 11 million in 1999. This has hit the tourist industry, and
therefore the town as a whole, hard. The number of hotels in
Blackpool’s main holiday area has declined by over a third (from
2800 to 1750 between 1989 and 1999). The town now has the third
lowest GDP in the north west; the twelfth lowest in the UK.”
• “Blackpool Council has unveiled a £1bn initiative to establish the
town as a spectacular, world-class resort for the 21st Century –
creating more than 20,000 jobs and kick starting a major
programme of regeneration.”
Decline?
Blackpool pleasure beach
Regeneration Projects: Blackpool
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2009/05/14/tourism-chiefs-promoteblackpool-on-youtube-to-lure-french-visitorsto-seaside-resort-115875-21358304/
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/news/2009/10/23/1
1743-follow-up-blackpool-tourism-ad-hitsscreens
The development of Blackpool as a
resort
• Using the information on the sheet either:
1. create a time line showing the stages in the
development of the resort and refer to which
stage of the model this would be
2. Annotate a butler models showing the dates
and developments of the stages of
development.
Follow up questions:
1. Apart form lack of space what could cause
Benidorm to go into stage 5? (stagnation)
2. Why are the length of Blackpool’s and
Benidorm’s tourist season different?
Exam question: 3 marks
Describe the options faced by holiday resorts
when they reach stagnation