In this coursework I am investigating the titles: "The centre of Greenwich is a honeypot site for tourism" and "Access to Greenwich is difficult due to poorly developed transport infrastructure".

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Greenwich is the focus of this coursework although other sites may be used to compare prices, transport links, traffic flow and pedestrian count.

In this coursework I am investigating the titles:

“The centre of Greenwich is a honeypot site for tourism“

This can be investigated in different ways, one way being transport links which is why I chose the following option as title:

“Access to Greenwich is difficult due to a poorly developed transport infrastructure“

I decided to focus on the particular option title above because I use public transport a great deal and could compare the different transport links.  I think the transport links represent how popular Greenwich is, and how far people will travel to see the sights and visit.  Therefore giving Greenwich the heading  “honeypot site“. 

Greenwich is in SouthEast London alongside the River Thames.  Which is another form of transport to the town (which will be discussed later).  

When our class went to Greenwich it seemed busy although it was raining.  There appeared to be a high traffic flow constantly around all area’s which may have been because of the amount of road works taking place but, this I found out as a result of my questionnaires is the usual.

Tourism is a great part of the income in Greenwich, and wouldn’t be the town it is now if tourists didn’t visit and spend money on transport, souvenirs, food and shops.

A definition of tourism is:

The advantages of tourism are that the income of a town or a city (in this case Greenwich being the town) is increased and improvements to the attractions and the town itself can be improved, therefore attracting more people.  

The disadvantages of tourism are that a town or a city can become dangerous because of the high traffic flow, the streets can become littered and dirty.  A town can lose its original character because businesses are changing the ways of life around the area so there are more pull factors for tourists.  

Methods:

Method 1

Pedestrian Count

The first experiment that we did was a pedestrian count.

Location A

Location A is near one or two shops, and it wasn’t the busiest part of Greenwich that was seen. It was near rows of restaurants, there was a few shops around here as well.

Location B

Relatively busy part of Greenwich.  The actual road we counted pedestrians on was Nelson road and the side on which we counted has 1 office, 2 shops and 4 restaurants, on the opposite side of the road there was 5 shops, 3 restaurants and 1 vacant building.

Location C        

Someone who took a pedestrian count at site C described it as a busy location, surrounded by restaurants and rows of shops.

Location D

The site was very busy most of the time, there was a public house on the corner where you enter the market.  A Burger King fast food restaurant was situated on the corner where the pedestrian count was taken.  There is a large number of restaurants and shops around this area.

                

We did location C, at 12:00 o’clock.  We counted 75 people in the space of 10 minutes.  This was a pedestrian count on the side of the road next to the shops, walking both ways.

        We stood on the corner of the road facing the shops and used a stopwatch to count 10 minutes.

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        By using this method I am trying to find out the difference in pedestrians at the same place but at different times.  I am trying to identify the busiest and quietest parts of Greenwich.

        We could only count one side of the road because otherwise we would have collected wrong information as it would be too difficult and would have to estimate, which wouldn’t be accurate.  At the time the weather was quite sunny but there was showers throughout the day which could have affected our results.

        We collected the data as a group and filled in a table ...

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