Where has been the more traditional area for English people to go on holiday inside of the UK?

Question

how long has it been this way?

why and how so you think?

Thanks for your answers!

Answer 1

The Lake District is quite popular, it's beautiful there.

Most people go there in the summer for around 5-8 days.

Answer 2

The original 'day trip' locations were usually the seaside.  It depended on where you were setting off from, and how wealthy you were.  Then it slowly built up to the holidays we have today:

A Timeline of British Holiday Habits

1800-1850

Ordinary working people only had holidays on ‘holy’ days (Sundays, Christmas, Easter)

1850-1900

The creation of a national railway system helped ordinary people travel. Most holidays were day trips to the British seaside by train.  Small fishing villages soon became thriving seaside resorts like Blackpool, Margate, Southend etc.

1900-1960s

Most Britons started to take a short Summer holiday for a week. Camping and holidays in caravans became popular in the 60s as people started to buy cars. British holiday camps were popular (Butlins, Pontins etc)

1970s

The airline industry expanded and tour operators started to offer very cheap package holidays to Spain or ‘last minute’ cheap fares. Large numbers of UK residents started to go abroad for their holidays. The package holiday boom started.

1980s

Skiing holidays were starting to become popular and the package industry continued to expand. British tourists started to prefer a package holiday abroad to an expensive British holiday

1980s-1990s

Packages to the USA became much cheaper than trips to British resorts.  It was now possible for most ordinary people to go abroad.

1990s - 2007

A second yearly holiday became possible with more and more cheap packages. Holidays to Australia and more exotic locations became cheap enough for many ordinary working people.

Answer 3

The UK is England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland,

I only know England, nowadays it's to the,

Lake District,

Yorkshire Dales,

Cornwall,

Devon,

Dorset,

Brighton,

Northumberland Coast,

Peak District,

North Yorkshire Moors,

Cotswolds,

We have our seaside areas but they are not as popular these days

Answer 4

Devon, Cornwall, Lake District, Snowdonia, Blackpool, Bournemouth, Margate, Ramsgate

Summer time - for obvious reasons...!

Answer 5

From the North West, Blackpool, North Wales or Morcambe.

From the North East, Scarborough

From the Midlands, Grimsby

From the South West, Weston Super Mare, Brean Sands (sp), Dorset, Cornwall or Devon

From the South East, Brighton, Bournemouth, Hastings

I'm from Manchester, and we used to either go to Blackpool (for a day trip) or Anglesey (in Wales). When we got a bit older, we'd drive down to Devon... but it's a long journey from up here!

Answer 6

I lived in Bristol, and Weston super Mare (you could get there by bus or train) was probably the most popular.  Other coastal or Channel resorts which were fairly easily accessible by public transport across the Country.

One of the favoured times was last week in July and first week in August because that encompassed the August Bank Holiday (first Monday in August).

Don't forget that going back to the 40's few people had cars and holiday entitlement was far less than it is now.

Answer 7

Cornwall, definitely. Have you been? It's gorgeous in summer!