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mapsontheweb · 1 month

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The 10 most visited cities in Europe in 2023 (in million)

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#maps #maps.interlude #igsourced #europe #cities #2023 #tourism

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xanaphiia · 1 year

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With Slovenia recently trending because of Eurovision and their fabulous entry, Joker Out, I wanted to promote Slovenia a bit as someone who travelled there and even before Eurovision had it as the top of my list of places to go back to. So if you’re Käärijä or someone else on the fence of going to Slovenia, you absolutely should!

We did a massive interrail trip last summer and Ljubljana and the train ride through Slovenia was a secret gem that we didn’t expect to love as much as we did! Ljubljana is the absolute cutest little city, it’s extremely pretty with lots of interesting history, a gorgeous old town.

Did I mention that the patron animal of the city of Ljubljana is a DRAGON? There’s a bridge with little dragons on either end 🐉

We took the train from Zagreb to Ljubljana and it was the prettiest journey. We missed out on seeing Lake Bled and some other cool sights in Slovenia but that’s yet another reason to go back. Ljubljana alone is totally worth visiting though - for the last nearly a year or so I’ve been chewing everyone’s ear off about how even next to Rome, Milan, and Budapest, Ljubljana was actually the secret star of our Interrail trip.

So whether or not you’re Käärijä, you might wanna visit Slovenia! 🇸🇮

#eurovision #esc 2023 #joker out #käärijä #bojan cvjeticanin #käärijän #slovenia #travel to slovenia #ljubljana #interrail #slovenia tourism board hire me i’ve been telling people about you for a while

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weirdowithaquill · 7 months

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Traintober 2023: Day 17 - Holiday

How Sudrian Tourism has Evolved:

Sodor has changed majorly thanks to the publication of the Railway Series and the subsequent Television Series, both of which propelled the island and its railways from being just another part of the UK into a tourism juggernaut. But the fact of the matter is that Sodor did not immediately transform from being an insignificant island on the coast of Cumbria to one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United Kingdom overnight – so how did it all change?

To understand, we must go back to the 1500s, and the Protestant Reformation in England. At the time, Sodor was part of the English Crown – but far looser than its Irish and Welsh neighbours. Due to its small size, rough terrain and low population, King Henry VIII was far less interested in confiscating Catholic land on the island than its surrounding areas. This was in part due to the both Sir Geoffrey Regaby and Bishop Michael Colden, who managed to guide Sodor away from the Lincolnshire Rising and the Pilgrimage of Grace. Due to their remote location and general poverty, Thomas Cromwell never visited Sodor, and Cronk Abbey was never closed. For its part, St Luoc’s Cathedral at Suddery was ‘converted’ to a Protestant Cathedral in 1537, but continued holding Catholic mass. This was done by holding the two religious ceremonies one after the other.

As Sodor was now one of the few parts of the British Isles that had a Catholic church and direct line to the Papacy in Rome, it became an ‘underground’ tourist destination as a new British site of pilgrimage, frequented by Catholics looking to attend mass at the Suddery Cathedral. In return for continuing these ceremonies, Sudrians became more devout to the crown – in particular to Queen Elizabeth I, and by 1603 the Catholic mass had been all but forgotten. This did not end the attractiveness of Sodor as a religious destination, due to the caves of Saint Machan and several other holy sites that litter the island; the numbers were not large, but they did lead to a number of important connections, especially with Ireland, the Isle of Man and English ports.

The next phase of Sudrian tourism came in the 1860s, when the Skarloey Railway found the long-forgotten Skarloey lake and hidden hollow. Rather than explain it, I think I’ll just use the description that the Reverend Wilbert Awdry did:

“Spas were popular at the period and offered the possibility of a lucrative passenger business. Skarloey’s mineral springs and sheltered situation took hold on the minds of some members of the Board, among them Shamus Tebroc who conceived the idea of developing Skarloey as a spa. An hotel and a number of villas were built as a speculation, and the gravity worked incline which had been installed for the conveyance of materials was retained and up-graded for coals, merchandise, and passengers’ luggage.”

Skarloey became the first of the Island of Sodor’s tourist hotspots, especially due to its proximity to Culdee Fell and Saint Machan’s cave. The popularity of the spas was good for a time, but began to fall off as the bad fortunes of the Sodor & Mainland Railway continuously hurt the Skarloey Railway’s tourism campaign with delayed and cancelled trains, ratty carriages and even standoffish staff. This led to Skarloey becoming a local holiday destination instead, but even that began to slow down as WWII loomed.

On the other side of the island, the Mid Sodor Railway also began heavily advertising their railway to holidaymakers across the UK, but to a somewhat better result. The Isle of Man Steam Packet contract the railway picked up led to a large influx of tourists across the late 1800s and early 1900s, up until the 1920s. The railway’s ability to reach the walled city of Peel Godred and the cave of Saint Machan (via the Culdee Fell Railway) made it a very attractive destination for tourists, though this would change at the end of WWI.

The advent of relatively cheap international travel via ferries in the 1920s did a lot of damage to Sodor’s tourism economy, as their major markets in England preferred to travel to either the Continent or the Lake District – or even as far afield as the United States. Sodor instead switched to being primarily an agricultural and resource-extraction economy, with some manufacturing. This continued throughout WWII.

Which leads us to May 12th, 1945. The Three Railway Engines was published – in colour – in the UK. It achieved enough success to lead to the continuation of the series in 1946, and again in 1948, and then again continuously until 1972. These twenty-seven years’ worth of publicity for the island and its railways had a massive effect. Skarloey was rediscovered and the budget-conscience holiday maker of the 1960s chose it for its low prices, high quality, and picturesque scenery, turning around the railways needed to reach it. The Culdee Fell Railway also saw an uptick in traffic as the Peel Godred Railway brought in more passengers than the old Mid Sodor Railway had.

Furthermore, tourists came to see the engines, a phenomenon not seen before in the island’s tourism industry. Insignificant towns such as Dryaw, Brendam, Crosby and Glennock became infinitely more popular as the sites of incidents in the Railway Series, or as convenient locations to stay for travelling the island. The biggest success story of the island’s cities was Cronk however. Cronk grew massively from the tourism trade as the most central location on the NWR to reach the various tourist destinations of Sodor – even Awdry takes a moment to mention ‘The Crown of Sodor’ Hotel on Sigmund Street due to its prominence as a hotel on the island.

This large influx of tourists was however of a majorly local source – the UK, parts of continental Europe and a relatively low number from North America. It wasn’t until the advent of cheap international jetplane flights in the mid-1970s and the debut of the TV series on October 9, 1984.

This debut is what changed everything.

The Thomas and Friends Television series was an international success, with translations into a number of languages (eleven by Wikipedia’s count) and broadcast around the globe. This, coupled with the opening of an enlarged airport at Vicarstown (which had been constructed in 1941 by the RAF and expanded by Vickers in the 1960s. The airport itself had been bought by the NWR in 1982 (probably in anticipation of the TV series) and began receiving jetliners from across the world as early as 1986.

Today, Sudrian tourism is one of the largest income producers in northern England due to its international status crafted by the Thomas & Friends series. The island is a popular tourist attraction for both railfans and Thomas fans, as well as religious pilgrims, spa enthusiasts, hikers, ramblers and historians. The airport at Vicarstown has been linked into the NWR via a spur line, and more recently a number of signs on the island have been converted to include secondary and tertiary languages, for better interpretation.

Sodor reached its best numbers for international tourists in 2019, when over 1.5 million people visited the island, making it the third most visited tourist destination within England, beating out Birmingham. The secret to it’s recent further uptick in visitors is the opening of a number of museums, galleries and other cultural sites on the island, as well as a strong advertising campaign that focused on the island’s major tourist draws, which are:

The North Western Railway, Skarloey Railway, Culdee Fell Railway and Arlesdale Railway from the Railway Series book and subsequent Television series

A pre-Norman era Abbey at Cronk, one of the oldest of its kind in Britain

Suddery Cathedral, which continues to be one of the few remaining pre-reformation cathedrals in Britain

Several Norman-era castles, including a completely intact castle at Harwick

The Walled City of Peel Godred

The caves of Saint Machan

Culdee Fell

Henry's Forest National Park

Skarloey and its spas

Museums, galleries, and cultural centres

The Standing Stones of Killdane.

This advertising campaign brought a greater variety of tourists to the island, especially those from North America.

The island was badly affected by the advent of the Coronavirus pandemic, which saw the high tourist numbers of the previous decade prop by over eighty percent, which forced the island to once again consider restructuring their economy around agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction. This eventually was decided against, as tourist numbers have slowly picked back up through 2022.

Sodor has been greatly affected by its rise to one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the UK, including a number of hotels being built on the island – many of which are converted manorhouses – as well as several upgrades made to the transport systems of the island, with updated ferry services between the island’s major ports and locations in the UK and Ireland, as well as the railway building a special line to the island’s main airport, new tram and bus services within the major cities on the island. The island’s railway system has also seen upgrades throughout the latter half of the 20th century, including a third track being added to the mainline, new signalling systems and a number of extra connecting services to cities in the UK, such as Manchester, Birmingham, Carlisle and Preston.

Sodor has grown drastically as a result of its tourism industry and is today an international tourism hotspot. The island continues to be popular into the modern day, as a result of strong advertising and a pointed diversification of tourist offerings on the island to help the island’s tourism industry grow and bring in profits for the island’s people.

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#fanfiction writer #weirdowithaquill #railway series #thomas the tank engine #railways #RWS analysis #Thomas and friends analysis #island of sodor #tourism #mid sodor railway #skarloey railway #traintober 2023 #traintober

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360degreesasthecrowflies · 4 months

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It's been a nice holiday generally but I had one moment here in el capitale where the scales fell from my eyes regarding post Brexit UK: in the supermarket.

I've complained and huffed for a while about the (recent, as previously it didn't exist) relative lack of choice and variety in the shops near me in Scotland & assumed for years it's been due to:(take your pick) local majority's taste preferences, cost of living crisis causing a reduction or focus on only the highest selling variants, some supply/expense/travel issue, given how far I live from the south/to mainland Europe, or a combination of the above.

Well I went to a giant flagship supermarket in London this week and it was exactly the same. When I first moved to a city over 10 years ago, when I was still actively in poverty, I used to treat myself occasionally by going to one of the fancy shops, walking around, looking at the fancy high end brands, and buying something small. I know some poorer folk are intimidated by places like that and I always looked upon it as reclaiming the space for me, to an extent. It's just a store ultimately and at least in principle is there to serve everyone.

Anyway, those high end brands, now, when I can actually afford them? Gone. Even here in the capital city where bankers and celebrities and politicians live. (I guess they might do all their shopping in delis or something - or have their staff do it? but still!)

I thought for years now it was just my area that's in decline, somewhere wealthier or posher or smarter within the UK would be better. But it really feels like the whole country to me now. And if even the wealthiest place in the country is struggling and standards there are going down, what's actually worth staying here for at all?

#london #uk #post brexit britain #brexit #brealism #2023 #cost of living crisis #uk politics #tourism

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eopederson · 8 months

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Steindalsfossen, Norheimsund, Vestlandet, 2023.

#landscape #waterfall #tourism #Steinstalsfossen #vestlandet #norge #2023 #photographers on tumblr

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leclercskiesahead · 8 months

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This photo is so cool oh my god

#f1 is our best tourism ad #charles leclerc #scuderia ferrari #f1 #singapore 2023

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barrilete02 · 9 months

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26/07/2023

Madrid 💕

#city aesthetic #beer #mahou #diary #Madrid #july 2023 #drinks #city streets #summer #tourism #architecture #my pictures

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vox-anglosphere · 1 year

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This year's King Lear at Stratford promises to be electrifying.

#King Lear #Stratford Festival #Canada #Shakespeare #drama #Paul Gross #2023 Season #theatre classic #tourism #Ontario

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mapsontheweb · 5 months

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Top 20 most visited countries in the world 2023 by average annual number of tourists in millions.

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#maps #alex_map_geography #igsourced #tourism #2023

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budotsmediaph · 4 months

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Budots Media working on rescuing brand of the Philippines, Department of Tourism's slogan 'Love Philippines' introduced this year in July by the secretary Miss Garcia-Frasco. Logo has been met with warm welcom, unline cooresponding video by DDB agency, that charged DOT (Department of Tourism) 50 million PHP for development of identity and ads.

The animated vector logo for the "Love Philippines" 2023 campaign is a vibrant representation of the country's identity and attractions. It features the four-letter word "LOVE" in bold, with each letter incorporating three main colors: green, red, and blue. These colors likely symbolize the Philippine flag and its rich cultural and natural heritage.

Embedded within the logo are square icons that depict the most popular sights and activities in the Philippines. These icons include fish and corals, representing the country's abundant marine life; mangoes, highlighting one of the nation's favorite fruits; lush greens, indicating the Philippines' verdant landscapes; wind turbines, showcasing the country's efforts towards sustainable energy; budol fights, a nod to local traditions and festivities; sinulog masks, symbolizing the famous Sinulog Festival; and old churches, reflecting the country's historical and religious heritage.

This logo design encapsulates the diversity and vibrancy of the Philippines, appealing to a wide range of tourists by showcasing the country's natural beauty, cultural richness, and historical significance. The inclusion of iconic symbols in the logo helps convey a message of love and appreciation for the many facets that make the Philippines a unique and attractive destination.

#love #philippines #dot #departmentoftoursim #frasco #fiasco #garcia #logo #tourism #2023 #ttf #font #vector #illustrator #svg

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