Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Know types of holidays available
in Europe to meet dif ering visitor
motivations
SECTION 2
Having learned about gateways and leisure
destinations in Section 1 of this unit, you are
now in a position to begin investigating the
types of holidays available in Europe to meet
differing visitor motivations.
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Dunkirk
Calais
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BELGIUM
Boulogne
Lille
GERMANY
Cherbourg
Dieppe
Le Havre
Caen
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LUX
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Roscoff
Brest
Quimper
Benodet
Concarneau
Carnac
St. Malo
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Paris
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Strasbourg
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Destinations
ALSACE
BRITTANY
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Rennes
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Orleans
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Angers
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The previous section of this unit
showed
us that Europe has a wide v
ar
ie
t
y of tourist
destinations that appeal to
a
ll s
o
rts of visitors
- from beach resorts f
o
r f
a
milies and bustling
cities that appeal to young travellers to
cultural destinati
o
ns for older people and
cruise areas for
a
ll. Examples that are popular
with British p
e
ople include:
Nantes
Dijon
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SWITZER-
LAND
Poitiers
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Mont Blanc
Lyon
Clermont-
Ferrand
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ATLANTIC
OCEAN
FRENCH
ALPS
Massif
Central
ITALY
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Bordeaux
PROVENCE
Canne
Nice
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Cities - Madrid, Venice, Dublin, Barcelona,
Camargue
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Biarritz
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Toulouse
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Marseille
Paris;
St.
Tropez
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Cote d-Azur
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Perpignan
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Beach resorts - Lloret de Mar, Torremolinos,
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SPAIN
Andorra
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
San Antonio, St Tropez, Magaluf;
Fig 7.4 - Holiday regions in France
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Purpose-built - Disneyland Paris, Tivoli
Gardens
(Copenhagen),
Legoland
Bay of Biscay
(Denmark);
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FRANCE
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Oviedo
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Bilbao
Santander
Andorra
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Pamplona
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Natural - the Alps, Les Landes (France),
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Zaragosa
Lloret de Mar
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Sierra Nevada (Spain), Zell am See
(Austria);
Barcelona
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ATLANTIC
OCEAN
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Salamanca
•
Historical/cultural - Rome, Athens,
Menorca
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Guadalajara
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Majorca
Madrid
Toledo
Versailles, Bruges, Venice.
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Valencia
Cabrera
Balearic Islands
Ibiza
The countries most popular with UK residents
in 2009 were Spain (11.5 million visits) and
France (9.7 million visits). These two countries
accounted for 36 per cent of all overseas
visits by British people in 2009. Both have a
range of tourist destinations that appeal to a
wide variety of visitors, as shown in Figures
7.4 and 7.5.
Benidorm
Formentera
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Alicante
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MEDITERRANEAN
SEA
CANARY ISLANDS
La Palma
Lanzarote
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Seville
Tenerife
Fuerteventura
Gran
Canaria
Torremolinos
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Costa del Sol
Hierro
Gomera
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Gibraltar
Fig 7.5 - Mainland Spain and its islands
