people go there to go to the Blue John
caverns. This means that they stop in
Castleton on the way through for some dinner
or to have a walk round and look at the
scenery. Because the location is in some of
the most stunning scenery in the country
people come from all over. We did a survey
when we there and there were people from as
far away as London.
Tourism has lots of advantages to
the people of Castleton. Because of the
tourism they can have souviner shops and
jewlers. While we were there we saw 5
different gift shops, a hotel, a car park and a
cafe. These are all tourist services and you
would't really find them in other villiages.
They also had a petrol station, 2 local shops,
craft shop and 2 pubs. I considered these as
mixed services because local people would
use them as well as tourists. The locals also
had services such as Church, Garage, School,
Post office and an off licence. These are
services that tourists wouldn't really come to
use.
Other advantages would be to the
council. They can charge money for use of
things like car parks which because of the
amount of tourists would be a massive income
each year. The shops of which some used to
be houses but have been converted on the
down stairs to gift shops and most of the sell
Blue John.
However with the advantages comes
dis-advantages. The amount of tourism has a
massive effect on the enviroment. This was
noticable as you could see pathways cut up
the midlle of hills and cruched rocks where
tourists had walked. Also when interviewing
some of the local people all of them said that
litter was a big problem in Castleton. However
while we were there i didn't remember seeing
many litter bins.
I also considered pavement
conjestion to be a problem so at 8 different
points in Castleton i stood for 2 minutes and
counted how many people wlked past. This
wasn't very succesful as we went on a
weekday and its wasn't very busy but in some
places even on a weekday we recorded up to
15 people. In the places I stood I also
recorded the attractiveness, maintanence of
buildings and things like beches and unsightly
objects like car parks. This again may have
been affected but the litter seemed to be one
of the biggest problems.
There was only unsightly objects
near point two where there was the carpark
and the Castleton main road which was quite
noisy. I could imagine it wouls be very loud
on a weekday.