The Butler's Model (Blackpool, England)

Question 1

Amount

Answer 1

£300 million bid on Super Casino

Question 2

Attractions

Answer 2

Town lights
City centre
Shopping centre
The coast
Illuminations
Pleasure beach
Shows
Conference hall

Question 3

Town lights

Answer 3

Attracts customers in day and night

Question 4

City centre

Answer 4

Pedestrianised and planting,paving, lighting added

Question 5

Shopping centre

Answer 5

Redeveloped- Houndshill Shopping Centre

Question 6

The coast

Answer 6

Sea defences replace with ‘Spanish steps’ to protect coast and improve tourism

Question 7

Illuminations

Answer 7

Light show in Autumn to increase tourist season

Question 8

Conference hall

Answer 8

Labour Party holds conferences here

Question 9

Pleasure beach

Answer 9

UKs most visited attraction- theme park

Question 10

Where is Blackpool

Answer 10

Lancashire coast in North-West England

Question 11

When did it become a popular tourist destination

Answer 11

19th century to serve inhabitants of northern industrial towns
Boomed between 1900 and 1950

Question 12

The Supercasino

Answer 12

Blackpool’s solution to the recession was to be home to the first UK supercasino like those in Las Vegas
20,000 jobs and £2 million would have been generated
Lost the casino to Manchester

Question 13

Blackpool’s unemployment rate before development

Answer 13

3.6%

Question 14

Domestic tourism (General)

Answer 14

Domestic tourism

Question 15

Peak in UK seaside holidays and visitors (General)

Answer 15

Peaked in the mid 1970s- 49 million annually

Question 16

UK tourism economy (General)

Answer 16

£70 million a year with 27.7 million overseas visitors spending over £13 million of this sum

Question 17

Restaurant and hotel respective earnings (General)

Answer 17

Restaurant- £20 billion

Hotels- £16 billion

Question 18

New hotels (General)

Answer 18

100 between September 2004 and December 2005

Question 19

London eye (General)

Answer 19

3.7 million visitors a day