TOURISM

Tourism in North Wilshire



Tourism in North Wilshire

Introduction

Tourism has been one of the most prominent and high-profile industry to exist on the face of the earth. Travelling, leisure, recreation, all have been significantly associated with tourism since people visits different places, exploring all sites and sounds to satisfy their innate need for adventure and peace at the same time. Tourism is defined as travel to a place outside the usual residential environment, involving a stay of at least one night but no more than 1 year, with varying motivations, such as business, pleasure, visits to friends and relatives (VFR), and education (Pearce, 2007, 184). Tourism has long been of interest to geographers, given its spatial, temporal, and activity patterns and given its considerable economic and environmental impacts, ranging from the local to the global. Geographers have been influential in developing conceptual models for explaining tourism development. Some of the most influential models are resort morphology, the tourist-historic city, and the tourist area cycle.

Tourism has a significant economic importance. It is estimated that the sector's revenues are higher than those of the automotive industry or the oil company. Given this fact, talk of economic costs may seem a contradiction. However, in this paper we are going to discuss Overview of tourism in North Wilshire positive and negative economic impacts of tourism in North Wiltshire in addition we will find that, some of the effects of tourism can result in negative economic impacts. These costs are necessarily linked to environmental costs and social costs. We shall also find ways to decrease these negative impacts, in the end recommendations shall be given to increase tourism in North Wilshire (Leiper, 2002, 600).

Overview of tourism in North Wilshire

Gloucestershire is the place whose border is where north Wiltshire is situated, it is on the south-eastern edge of the Cotswolds, part of which lies in the north Wiltshire i.e AONB. There are a number of towns in the city which are calne, malmesbury, cricklade, corsham, wooton basset and chippenham it is the largest of the local towns in North Wiltshire. The flourishing factor which drives the economy is tourism in north Wiltshire. This sector supports almost 6% of the total workforce. North Wiltshire is surrounded by natural beauty this area is covered with river valleys, lands and beautiful villages (Daher, 2006, 56). North Wiltshire also has the famous film location i.e. castle combe, it is acclaimed as the pretties' village in England and the national trust village of lacock.

North Wiltshire Attractions

North Wiltshire has several beautiful attractions which includes lacock village, lacock abbey also the fox Talbot museum, abbey house gardens, bowood house and the Cotswolds water park. Downs Marlborough and avebury are a drive short away.

Leisure Activities

Walkers are well known to the Kings Road in North Wiltshire district and river route, using part of the National Cycle Route 4 to Lacock and Chippenham, and access to the Thames Path through the Cotswolds Water Park and Cricklade. There are several golf courses, and local government operates a series of ...