🧍Case Study - Stratford upon Avon

Question 1

What are the infrastructural endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 1

Bridging point
Served by Midlands and Chiltern trains
27 miles from Birmingham airport
On A422

Question 2

What are the physical endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 2

Floodplain of River Avon

Question 3

What are the demographic endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 3

70.3% Christian
Average age of 44
97.5% speak English

Question 4

What are the environmental endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 4

Medieval buildings

Question 5

What are the locational endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 5

35m above sea level

101 miles from London

Question 6

What are the economic endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 6

Tertiary services

Question 7

What are the land use endogenous characteristics of Stratford-upon-Avon?

Answer 7

Urban environment

Question 8

What is a tourist place?

Answer 8

Where flows of people and investment have shaped the character of the place

Question 9

What does tourism produce?

Answer 9

A distinctive set of interconnections between places becsuse of its different relationship between producers and consumers

Question 10

The product sold at tourist sites it…

Answer 10

…intangible

Question 11

What are the flows of people?

Answer 11

Day trippers from Birmingham to Europeans eg French school groups to global visitors from USA and Japan

Question 12

What are the flows of investment?

Answer 12

Locally based family business to national monies eg from UK Arts, M&S to Global investment from HSBC, McDonalds

Question 13

What is the relationship between producers and consumers?

Answer 13

Direct, through shops, hotels, boat trips, Shakespeare tours

Question 14

What is the intangible product sold?

Answer 14

Experience boat rides, Shakespeare tours, theatre visits, ghost walks

Question 15

How is income generated?

Answer 15

Through flows of products, images, information and experiences

Question 16

What does the experimental nature of the product shape?

Answer 16

The material and socio-cultural characteistics of the place itself, eg some traditional building, some very modern, new developments eg Premier Inn, Bell Court, has cosmopolitan feel