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1
Q

Amount

A

£300 million bid on Super Casino

2
Q

Attractions

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Town lights
City centre
Shopping centre
The coast
Illuminations
Pleasure beach
Shows
Conference hall
3
Q

Town lights

A

Attracts customers in day and night

4
Q

City centre

A

Pedestrianised and planting,paving, lighting added

5
Q

Shopping centre

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Redeveloped- Houndshill Shopping Centre

6
Q

The coast

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

7
Q

Illuminations

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Light show in Autumn to increase tourist season

8
Q

Conference hall

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Labour Party holds conferences here

9
Q

Pleasure beach

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UKs most visited attraction- theme park

10
Q

Where is Blackpool

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Lancashire coast in North-West England

11
Q

When did it become a popular tourist destination

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

12
Q

The Supercasino

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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

13
Q

Blackpool’s unemployment rate before development

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3.6%

14
Q

Domestic tourism (General)

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Domestic tourism

15
Q

Peak in UK seaside holidays and visitors (General)

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Peaked in the mid 1970s- 49 million annually

16
Q

UK tourism economy (General)

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

17
Q

Restaurant and hotel respective earnings (General)

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Restaurant- £20 billion

Hotels- £16 billion

18
Q

New hotels (General)

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100 between September 2004 and December 2005

19
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London eye (General)

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3.7 million visitors a day

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