Events In The Last 50 Years

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  • Introduction Of The Boeing 1970

    Introduction Of The Boeing 1970
    The 747 was the first plane referred to as a "Jumbo Jet" known as the first wide body airline. The 747 was built simultaneously with the first 747 at Plain Field in Everett, Washington. The first flight occurred on February 9th 1969. The plane had to follow an intensive test programme before flying.

  • Concorde

    Concorde
    Concorde first started being built in February 1965 and started flying in September of 1973. The capacity of the Concorde was 100 passengers and held up to 2.5 tonnes of cargo. The first time the aeroplane few was from Paris to Rio De Janeiro. Financial issues caused the aeroplane to stop operating in 2003.

  • Car Ownership

    Car Ownership
    Owning cars was not a common thing, less than 30% people used vans, taxis and trains to get places. It wasn't until 1970 when people in the UK started to own their own vehicles to travel. In 1970 around 13.5 million cars were being used. Car ownership became more popular by 1980 and has stayed this way since.

  • Launch of Ryanair

    Launch of Ryanair
    Ryanair first launched in 1984. Ryanair began with a 15 seater plane. Ryanair's first flight was on July 8th flying from Waterfood to London Gatwick. The company headquartered in Ireland.

  • Visits Abroad

    Visits Abroad
    travelling abroad became very popular in 1982 in the UK. Package holidays were doing really well at this time. New technology had a significant impact on this, making it possible to travel abroad with great deals.

  • Invention of The Internet

    Invention of The Internet
    Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. His aim when inventing the internet was to meet the demand for automated information sharing between scientists in universities around the world.

  • Intasun Holidays

    Intasun Holidays
    Intasun Holidays was responsible for tour operating duties. In 1991 the company went out of business because they had apparently failed to provide the holidays they promised. Harry Goodman owned the company and died at the age of 79. This company going bust affected the tourism industry causing less holidays being made.

  • Channel Tunnel

    Channel Tunnel
    The Channel Tunnel was built in 1994, its an underwater railway tunnel that connects Folkestone with Coquelles beneath English Channel at the trait of Dover. Channel Tunnel benefits people by allowing London to be directly connected by train to Paris, Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne. The Channel Tunnel made a positive impact on the travel and tourism industry because it made it easier to travel to places and making the journey quicker.

  • EasyJet Launched

    EasyJet Launched
    EasyJet first launched 1994 in London. EasyJets first flight was from Luton to Glasgow. EasyJet started with 130 passengers on board. EasyJet was founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Loannou to offer low fares flights in Europe. The impact EasyJet has made in the tourism industry was significant due to their affordable prices allowing more people around the UK to travel.

  • Visits Made

    Visits Made
    In the year 2000 over 36.7 million holidays were made, making a total of £24.3 billion spent by UK residents heading abroad for holidays. UK airports witnessed 178.6 million passengers pass through.

  • Titanic

    Titanic
    The famous Titanic film was about the biggest ship ever built and sank when it hit an iceberg causing 1,496 deaths. Starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet. This film was released in 2001. The Titanic was travelling from England to New York.

  • Facebook Launched

    Facebook Launched
    In 2004 Facebook was made and quickly got popular all around the globe. This impacted tourism by allowing people communicate around the world easily making planning trips with friends so much easier.

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    In 2010 Instagram was introduced to the world where people can post pictures and videos about their lives. Instagram got really popular and people posted their holidays and beautiful views. This made more people influenced and wanting to visit the same places. 48% of people used Instagram for help when picking holiday destinations.

  • Iceland Ash Cloud

    Iceland Ash Cloud
    In 2010 there were multiple volcanic eruptions in Iceland causing a huge cloud of ash that was extremely dangerous and caused chaos in the tourism industry. Planes could not fly through the ash as it was very intoxicating and could damage the aircrafts. This caused most of the airspace in Europe to close ending in less holidays and trips happening.

  • Arab Spring

    Arab Spring
    Arab Springs was a series of anti government protests in Egypt making the number of people from the UK travelling to Egypt drop significantly. From 186,000 to 47,000.

  • COVID-19

    COVID-19
    In 2020 the world went into lockdown because of the covid-19 disease. This caused many businesses lose their profit and some going out of business. As the world was in lockdown no one was booking trips abroad which made an extreme impact on the travel and tourism industry. Airlines were losing profit.

  • Bibliography

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Boeing-Company
    https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet
    https://www.eurotunnel.com/uk/build/
    https://corporate.easyjet.com/about/our-journey/default.aspx
    https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6485518
    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/facebook-launches-mark-zuckerberg
    https://www.britannica.com/topic/Instagram
    https://www.britannica.com/event/Arab-Spring
    Unit 1 - Task 3 Part 1 handout