the Industrial Revolution and the improvement in transportation allowed less privileged classes to travel away from home. Most holidays were railway day trips to the British seaside resorts (Barrow, 2010).
Along with the twentieth century, the developing of better and cheaper engine automobiles let UK seaside resorts experiment a brief boom up to or even after the Second World War (Walton, 2000). In 1974, more than 40 million took a British Break of four days or more (Brodie and Winter, 2007)
Even in the 1990’s “at least half of all British holidays were still taken in seaside resorts” (John K. Walton, 2000, p.3). In the same book, John K. Walton explains, how resort life, both for residents and visitors, was a highly significant part of lived experience for much ofmarket's needs or have reached another large market.
Firstly Blackpool has seen recent prosperity in is tourist industry with a large amount of private investment from a large company Leisure Parcs. The firm invested £1billion worth of six casinos in the area and this has alone generated 30 million visitors and £2billion in its first year. This is a huge advance from its slowing economy and has proved to be a successful change for the whole area. The huge amount of investment has been used effectively and with anything if money is used effectively, rewards will be reaped.
Another way an area has successfully changed is using the infrastructure, buildings, transport links and scenic quality for other reasons. Brighton and Hove have changed their area's industry from tourism to housing