Unit 8 Outline - Tourism and Landforms
This unit deals with the ways in which tourists are attracted by the natural environment and their impacts on it. That's why the physical processes that create landforms are included - so you need to make sure that you've revised erosion and deposition as well.
Key Content:
- How do physical processes shape natural landscapes? Specifically coasts and glaciated landscapes
- What are the effects of the growth of tourism?
- How can tourist areas be managed?
Major Case Studies:
- A National Park such as the Lake District (website
) - there are resource sheets on the LHS Web Portal; - Honeypot sites and how they can be managed - e.g. Windermere and the 10mph speed limit for boats (BBC Cumbria Report,
Windermere Leaflet); or second homes (newspaper report). Examples such as Hawkshead or Helvellyn (case studies; simple case studies; 
National Parks Placemarks) are useful. - A coastal area like the Isle of Wight (the Needles and Hurst Castle Spit);
- An area formed by glaciers (the Lake District)
Make sure that you can say why people are attracted to areas of natural landscapes. The Lake District is easy for this - the hills, cliffs, valleys, lakes, rivers and woods are the basic attraction for the area.
Download the Tourism and Landforms Revision Sheet
Download the Lake District Case Studies sheet (or the simple version if you want less words)
Download the Yorkshire Dales Impacts sheet and the Malham Opinions sheet
Download the Glacial Landforms Placemarks file for Google Earth.
Download the Coastal Landforms Placemarks file for Google Earth.
Download the National Parks Placemarks file for Google Earth
> Read guidance on using Google Earth on the Google Earth Files page.
Jump to the BBC Bitesize section on Tourism