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Investigation theme - Investigate tourist honeypot site/s within a locality.

Possible titles:

a. What effects do tourists/does tourism have on honeypot sites in Windsor?


b. How far do visitors travel to the honeypot tourist destination of Windsor and what are their effects on the town?


c. What are the economic and environmental impacts of being a honeypot site for the tourist destination of Windsor?

Hypotheses (Select from the list below - At least two. Decide which bold words are to be used and highlight them):

1. Tourists have a positive/negative economic effect on honeypot sites.
2. Tourists have a positive/negative environmental effect on honeypot sites.
3. Tourists that travel the greatest/least distance to visit tourist honeypot sites have the greatest/least impact on them.
4. Tourists that travel the greatest/least distance to visit tourist honeypot sites have more positive/negative economic impact on these sites.
5. Tourists that travel the greatest/least distance to visit tourists honeypot sites have the greatest/least environmental impact on them.

Key concepts and terms likely to be used in the study:

1. Tourism
2. Tourist
3. Honeypot site
4. Economic impact
5. Environmental impact
6. Sphere of influence
7. Visitor origins
8. Visitor density
9. Honeypot attractions

Students will need to ensure that at least six of the above appear in each of the report sections (the same six!)

Data required/methods of collection:

Data:

• Origin of visitors/distance travelled (First 3 digits of post code)
• Places visited during stay in W (Students have a pre-prepared list against which a tally is compiled)
• Period of stay in W (Categories and tally)
• Spending expectations (Categories and tally) 
• Visitor attitudes to Windsor (Likert scale)
• Mode of Travel to W (Categories and tally) 

Method:

Questionnaire (survey of visitors to W). Design to cover a range of data needs. Gathering places visited as part of the questionnaire obviates the need to sample at specific locations as the destinations/places visited can be extracted by questioning)

Data:

• Number of pedestrians at different localities

Method:

Pedestrian count - This will need to be conducted at a variety of locations and can be used to assess popularity and contribute to the identification of specific honeypot locations in the town.

Data:

• Tourism Dependency of businesses
• Environmental impact

Method:

Observational survey (Using Likert scale or similar) - If conducted at the same locations as the pedestrian counts, information can be correlated to assess the impact of numbers of visitors directly with their environmental impact.

Data:

• Attractions of W (To identify the specific attractions of Windsor as a tourist honeypot) Student devised method.

Opportunities for sophisticated interpretation and analyses (including the identification of links between data sets and data handling):

Links - 

1. Origin of visitors, duration of stay and spending.
2. Popularity (pedestrian numbers) and economic benefit.
3. Popularity (pedestrian numbers) and environmental impact.
4. Economic benefit compared to environmental impact.

Data handling - 

1. Average spending of visitors travelling from a range of distances to visit the town.
2. Percentage of visitors that could be classified "local" or "non-local". 
3. Average spending of local/non-local visitors.
4. Percentage of shops/businesses depending for tourists (not at all/partially/totally).
5. Correlation between distance/spending; distance/stay duration; distance/places visited etc etc

Data presentation techniques:

• Origin of visitors/distance travelled - Distance decay maps; density shading maps; zone mapping.

• Places visited during stay in W - Bar graphs showing number of visits to different sites; compound bars showing percentage of visitors in different groups visiting different locations eg local//non-local visits to surrounding attractions of W; Radial graphs showing visits to different attractions.

• Period of stay in W - Pie charts to show the proportion of visitors staying for different amounts of time; Scatter graph to show relationship between duration and distance or duration and spending.

• Spending expectations - see above (scatter graph comparing duration Vs spend); scatter showing spending Vs distance).

• Visitor attitudes to Windsor - Kite graph to show positive/negative views.

The information above can be used to complete the CA Planning Table/Document - Downloadable from - HERE