When did Blackpool start to decline?
Damien Wehner
2025-05-18 19:32:55
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After WW2, from 1960 onwards Blackpool began to stagnate, then decline because of package holidays, cheaper air transport and better climates. Foreign travel grew in popularity in the 1960s and 70s with its more reliable hot, dry and sunny weather and sandy beaches. The expansion of package holidays and cheaper flights, in addition to more competing destinations. The growth of budget airlines and cheaper accommodation from the 1990s onwards. Visitor numbers fell from 17 million to 11 million in 2000.
Overcrowding in Blackpool, and a shift in the market to late night drinking, stag parties and hen parties. Blackpool has run down areas and is mainly popular with stag and hen parties.
Felton Cremin
2025-05-12 09:33:47
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As air travel became more popular, the cool climate of Blackpool could not compete with the warmer climate in southern Spain and France. Blackpool’s tourism industry went into decline. Blackpool in North West England was a popular tourist destination in the 19th and 20th centuries but went through a decline. Between 1918-1939, Blackpool was successful, it was one of Europe’s leading destinations. By 1901, the population was up to 47,000. In 1951, the population had risen to 147,000.
Vincenzo Stracke
2025-05-08 08:23:01
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Blackpool suffered a decline in tourist numbers.
This was because foreign travel to the Mediterranean grew in popularity in the 1960s and 70s with its more reliable hot sunny and dry weather, and sandy beaches.
The expansion of package holidays and cheaper flights, plus more competing destinations, also contributed to the decline.
The growth of budget airlines and cheaper accommodation from the 1990s onwards was another factor.
People are changing to self-catering and buying time shares or holiday homes abroad, which has also led to a decline in Blackpool's tourism.
Overcrowding in Blackpool and a shift in the market to late night drinking, stag and hen parties have further contributed to the decline.
To combat this decline Blackpool launched a £300 million regeneration project in 2000.
In the 2011 censes its population was registered at 142,064, a decrease of around 200 people on year 2001.
Gunnar Pfannerstill
2025-04-27 02:08:02
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Growth was more or less continuous until 1960. However, the traditional British seaside resorts have been in decline for 40 years, ever since people discovered guaranteed summer sun and warmth in Mediterranean countries. Blackpool was badly affected. Between 1990 to 1999 visitor numbers per year dropped from 17 million to 11 million. 1000 hotels ceased trading. 300 holiday-flat premises closed. Average hotel occupancy rate fell as low as 25%. Blackpool was not exciting existing visitors enough to make them come back the following year, nor was it attracting sufficient new customers.
Carter Mayer
2025-04-18 09:43:30
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Blackpool was Britain’s glittering Vegas-on-Sea — and then cheap flights lured us away. Blackpool’s last peak was August bank holiday in 1981, when visitors rented all 28,000 deckchairs in town. Thereafter, the resort led the decline of the British seaside, reaching the bottom of the trough in 2014, when the council offloaded the last 6,000 deck chairs, admitting that no-one had rented one since 2011. In 1911, the town’s Central Station was the busiest in the world, and in July 1936, 650 trains came and went in a single day. The sad fact remains that the biggest Blackpool headline for many of us has been its decline. Blackpool has been as much about levelling up as living it up. The sophistication for which Blackpool was once famous — the Grundy Art Gallery, the Matcham-designed Grand Theatre, and two magnificent ballrooms — has long been overshadowed by a culture of low-brow excess.
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