bramling
Veteran Member
Because these towns never reinvented themselves after the high days of miners and factory workers wakes week. Instead they hoped and still hope, desperately, that those days will return instead of trying to attract modern visitors
Once cheap foreign travel became a reality for the working class they chose to go aborad in thier droves. Now the people who have disposal income would prefer a cheap flight to Europe over a weekend in a grotty b&b in some dreary, dead end, depressingly boring faded costal town.
These days many of them even fail to attract granny tours on coaches who should be a captove market for these sort of horrible places!
Think that sums it up. There are seaside places which are remain reasonably successful, either the smarter ones, or those who have managed to find another purpose, be it as a commuter town, night scene, university town or whatever. However two things have killed the traditional working-class holiday, firstly the package holiday a few decades ago, and more recently the advent of budget airlines has further nailed the coffin.
It is the traditional “working class” holiday destinations which are now suffering, places like Yarmouth, Rhyl, Hastings, Blackpool and the likes. Other resorts still seem to be doing reasonably well, Llandudno springs to mind.
I seem to remember part of Theresa May’s manifesto promised some attention towards seaside towns. It’s a shame this doesn’t seem to have come to anything, like most of the rest of any domestic agenda at the moment!