The aims for my winter trip to ambleside was to find out ifAmbleside is a tourist honeypot, to find out what the main attractionsin ambleside are, to find out what the catchment area of ambleside is,how tourism has affected the services provided by ...

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The aims for my winter trip to ambleside was to find out if Ambleside is a tourist honeypot, to find out what the main attractions in ambleside are, to find out what the catchment area of ambleside is, how tourism has affected the services provided by the town and how does the winter season affect: tourist attractions eg. Lake Windermere (Sight seeing, boating and cruising), services (Local Transport and Accommodation) and the levels of traffic in ambleside. I was also trying to find out what the catchment area for ambleside was. A catchment area is the distance that people travel to a curtain point.

 

I used various methods to find out the above such as:

  • Tax disc survey
  • Traffic survey
  • Building surveys/Street plans
  • Photographs/Field sketches

Tax disc survey

I was doing this work in the winter so that I could find out what the catchment area of Ambleside was in winter, also to find out how the levels of traffic and services were affected during the winter. I studied two car parks Hayes garden centre and Lake Road south. I studied these two car parks so that it I could find out what the catchment area for Ambleside is. I studied 25 cars at each car park. I recorded the information I found out about each car on a table. I studied the tax discs on each car and recorded the name of the town and county that the car was from. The tax disc tells me where the owner is from and if they are from ambleside or not. The main reason for this study was to find out what the catchment area of ambleside is in the winter season. I will record the information on a map of the UK showing where each car was from and this will enable me to find out what the catchment area of ambleside is during winter. The tax disc survey is unreliable because many of the tax discs I looked at I had difficulty trying to study due to either the tax disc not being able to be seen properly,  e.g. it was covered up slightly by the windscreen wiper, or the stamp on the discs where the information about the town and county was displayed was not printed properly. Also on a few of the tax discs DVLA was printed. If the tax disc survey was done again I would improve it by doing more cars to give a more accurate catchment area map, also I would only look for the county on each disc. This would make the survey easier and quicker to do because of some of the problems I had when trying to read the names of the town which the vehicle came from. I will present my information from the tax disc survey on a map of the UK with the catchment circle labelled on and all of the different towns marked on.

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Traffic survey

I studied the flow of traffic coming from Ambleside on the A591 lake road south outside Hayes garden centre. I studied this for 20mins from 2:30pm to 2:50pm .The vehicles were recorded as on a table. I counted different types of vehicles so that I could find out how the winter season had affected the levels of traffic in Ambleside. The categories that I studied were cars, vans, lorries, public busses, tour coaches, motorbikes, bicycles and other. I recorded the vehicles as a tally chart on a table. Other groups studying other locations all over Ambleside collected ...

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