This will show us where the busiest places in Holmfirth are and should tie in with my function map as the busiest places should be where all the shops are on the function map. The data shows me where the majority of people were at two different times of the day.
The most popular parts of Holmfirth are Victoria square where 42 people passed in the morning and then 64 in the afternoon a total of 106 people in 20 minutes on the day we went.
My isopleths map is to show the results of the pedestrian count, it shows the number of pedestrians counted on each of the locations that we were provided with at the start of the project.
Questionnaire
We were given this questionnaire and we randomly went around Holmfirth and asked pedestrians in the street and asked them seven questions. Six were the same as everyone in the class and the last one our own.
These questions included. Where did they come from? How far did they travel to get to Holmfirth? Why were they there?
- What is the name of the town, village or district in which u live?
- How far is it from where you live to Holmfirth?
- How long did it take you to get to Holmfirth?
- How long do you plan to stay in Holmfirth for?
- What type of transport did you use to get to Holmfirth?
- What reason are you in Holmfirth?
- In your own opinion has tourism affected Holmfirth?
Own questionnaire
The questionnaire is what I and my group put together we asked shopkeepers how the impact of tourism has affected their business. We gave them the questionnaire then left it and cam back sum 15 minutes later.
We gave out the questionnaire to 35 shops to see how tourism had affected the shops in Holmfirth. And if it had why. We asked these questions and got these answers.
- What kind of goods do you sell?
Glassware
- Has tourism affected your business?
yes
- Due to tourism are you open all year round?
yes
- On average how many people visit your shop daily?
100
- How many hours are you open?
seven
- How do you transport your good to you shop?
truck
- Has tourism affected the transportation of goods?
Yes difficult to park.
Number of pedestrians walking in certain areas at two different times of the day (total)
Count placement
The graphs show how many people went past each part of Holmfirth.
I feel I have presented this data quite clearly as it is clear and well laid out and easy to understand.
To improve my results I would do the pedestrian count again, time the 10 minutes with a stop clock instead of only using a watch, as this would make it more accurate. I could also do the pedestrian count at more frequent intervals, as then I would have more data to conclude from. By doing the pedestrian count, you can’t really answer without other tasks whether tourism affects Holmfirth.
The pedestrian count simply shows how many people were at a certain place at a certain time. This does not help me very much with answering the Hypothesis. If I had looked at a specific place, where there were a lot of tourist shops, this could help me with answering the hypothesis.
The pedestrian count could only show us where most of the people were situated. There were the most amounts of people in the town centre. I made it a fair text by only recording people on my side of the street. I also only recorded people for exactly 10 mins, as if I had not I would have made it unfair.
A disadvantage to this method is that I had to rely on other people’s results. Maybe if I was concentrating on how many tourists came to Holmfirth the pedestrian count would be more useful.
Spearman’s rank
R = 1 – (6 x 6∑d^2) R = 1 – (6 x 733)
= 1 – (n^3 – n) = 1 – (7980) = 0.45
Positive Negative
1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -0.2 -0.4 -0.6 -0.8 -1
Strong No Weak
correlation
Shows weak but slightly positive correlation
Own questionnaire results
Evaluation
Function map
I am convinced that I have accurately collected enough data and have identified every building.
I could improve the accuracy of my function map by going back to Holmfirth and checking every building in Holmfirth again.
I conclude that 23.52% of buildings in Holmfirth rely on tourism and if you exclude all the houses 86.5% of Shops rely on tourism. For a town the size of Holmfirth I conclude that tourism has affected Holmfirth and therefore is very important to the local economy.
I could improve my function map also by comparing my function map with others to make sure it is correct.
My hypothesis stated that the shops in the flat valley bottom of Holmfirth are mostly related to tourism as the population of Holmfirth is not sufficient to support the economy the size Holmfirth. The function map I produced shows that most of the buildings are related tourism.
Pedestrian count
I feel I do not have sufficient data to say I have accurately collected enough data as I only did the count for 10 minutes once in the morning. If I could do the pedestrian count again I would do the count more times in the day and do the count over a number off days too. Also I would take into account that if I did the count on a Monday when more people would be at work and did the count on Saturday where people would not be working the data would be very different and would not be fair.
My hypothesis stated that tourism had affected Holmfirth and from the pedestrian count I have found out that I cannot tell if Holmfirth has been affected by tourism as the people I counted during my count could have been merely residents from the Holmfirth area.
Questionnaire
The data from the questionnaire was directly related to the hypothesis. It showed me that a number of people travelled rather a long way to get to Holmfirth. Also the questionnaire showed me that many of the people that came to Holmfirth were there for shopping and leisure. This tells me that a number of people were tourists as they came from a long way away.
If I could do the questionnaire again I would do the questionnaire again on a Saturday or Sunday when not as many people were working.
I would also take more data by asking more people and seeing what results that data gave me; if I did this I feel that the data would be more accurate as it would exclude all the extremes.
I have had many problems collecting this data as I had to ask people questions and sometimes I did not get the data I wanted. Also when I asked the people the questions some of them did not want to answer.
Own Questionnaire
I feel I have collected enough data. And that the dta that I had collected was directly related to the hypothesis “ has tourism affected Holmfirth”.
I did not have any problems with this questionnaire. The data I got was precise and accurate.
The disadvantage to this technique was that I wanted to collect much more data but with the time restriction I did not manage very many this was due to the time it took to wait until the shop worker could fill in the questionnaire.
The results I got supported my hypothesis that tourism has affected Holmfirth to prove this I asked the question had tourism affected the shops opening hours and every one said yes it had I feel that that data is adequate to say that yes tourism has affected the town of Holmfirth.
Morning Pedestrian count
Afternoon pedestrian count
Location of Holmfirth
Holmfirth is located just 3 miles from the peak district national park and is on the colder river.
Directions to holmfirth from leeds
Summary: 26.7 miles (56 minutes)
Directions to holmfirth from Huddersfield
Summary: 7.0 miles (21 minutes)
