Key developments from

1960 to the present day

BY MORGAN STAPLETON

Development of tourism Act 1969

The Aim of the act is to co-ordinate all the
organisation that make up the tourism sector
and they have a single voice.
It was create by the British Tourist Authority as
well as the tourist boards for England, Scotland
and Wales.
Since the act has been passed the
responsibility for the funding and development
in Scotland and wales as been devoted to the
Welsh Assembly and the Scotland Parliament.

Transport Act 1980 and 1985

In 1980 the Transport Act ended Licencing and
regulations affecting routes of express coach and
tours over 30 miles. As a result this lead to the
rivalry between National Bus and private
companies.
In 1985 they introduction the act of deregulation
which meant that Private bus company can uses
any route.

Package Travel, Package Holidays

and package tour
Since 1992 all UK tour operators offering package
holidays have been subject to Package tour
operators. They have been set out to their
customer and what those customer can do if the
regulation are breached.

Reservations and booking

The greatest impacts is when the demand of travel
grew in the 1950s most companies have started
to introduce the reservation department as they
provide information that customers use though the
use of Adverts from Computer that each business
has develop their own system.
Now a days most airlines uses CRS (Computer
Reservation Systems) since 1950 to store up
information that travel agents and other travel
industries have access to.

Destination development
As the world changes most countries have realised
that the economic benefits from tourism as it
brings more money as they attracted people from
overseas.
Dubai is an example of Destination develop as
now a days Dubai it is one of the most popular
tourist spot as it has constructed shopping
centres, Hotels and Resident that have attracted
tourist around the world.

Self check-in at airport

Now a days airlines passengers can now check in at
airports by themselves as this now saves time for both
the passenger and airlines as they book online at home
then when they arrive at the airport they check-in
through by machines

Super planes
Since introduction of the airbus A380 can seat
between 555 and 800 passengers. The first
flight in 2007 was to Paris. But the only
problem with the aircraft was that most
airports have to change their infrastructure to
be able to accommodate a large aircraft.

Super ships
A ferry has been created by a
French navel architect, Gilles
Vaton. It is called the Beteau a
Grande Vitesse (BGV) which is a
high speed boat and since its can
cut the journey from 20 hour to
now 9 hours

Channel Tunnels
The tunnel between France and England
first started as an idea, but in 1986, the
foreign affairs ministers of both
countries sign a Franco-British Treaty in
Canterbury. Since the tunnel has been
built it has allowed the British to travel
without flying and having the risk of
seasickness to the neighbouring
countries.

High-speed trains
Rail networks such as Train a Grande Vitesse
(TGV) have been able to maintain the railway
network in some counties and have trains that
can reach speeds of 300 Kph.
A proposal has been made by network rail for a
high speed railway line linking Scotland and
London as this would provide competition for
airline working route between London and
Scotland.