Information signs
All rectangular
End of controlled parking zone
Entrance to controlled parking zone
Entrance to congestion charging zone
With-flow bus lane ahead which
Parking place for solo motorcycles
pedal cycles and taxis may also use
Lane designated for use by high occupancy
vehicles (HOV) - see rule 142
End of
Holidays are great for recharging our batteries and allowing us to relax both mentally and physically. Travelling is also a great way to expand our horizons and the growth of the travel industry in recent years has been invaluable in increasing our understanding of other cultures and customs.
motorway
Traffic on the main carriageway coming
from right has priority over joining traffic
In the introduction we talked about how important it is that our vision of a low carbon lifestyle in the future is desirable and free from sacrifice. Holidays represent happy times in our lives but the travel and tourism industry, like many others, makes both positive and negative contributions in the wider world. At Virgin, we describe sustainable tourism as ‘when locals benefit as much as visitors and where the resorts we enjoy today are preserved for others to enjoy in the future’ .
Travel and tourism is the world’s largest industry and a critical component of the global economy, fuelling growth and employment . It represents 10% of global GDP1 worldwide2
and 8% of employment . It also encourages development
of infrastructure, such as transport networks, sanitation works and other public amenities. Many developing countries are highly reliant on tourism and in some countries it can represent up to 30% of GDP3
. The industry’s predicted
growth reflects the increasing mobility of populations in emerging economies: in 1995
there were 565 million international tourist journeys made and that figure is forecast to grow to over 1.6 billion by 20204
.
With such massive growth comes huge challenges; overdevelopment, over-reliance on tourism for economic growth in developing countries, an ever increasing carbon footprint, depletion of destinations’ natural resources and damage to land and ocean based ecosystems. The challenges facing the tourist industry are enormous and cover many different and complex issues that are hard to unpick. It is therefore critical to ensure that our travel and tourism related businesses are doing their best to address these challenges.
Overdevelopment is a key challenge which is likely to worsen as travel becomes increasingly accessible. Despite the economic benefits that tourism can bring to a region, there are often some environmental and social trade-offs for the local population. When a new destination suddenly becomes popular, resorts can be
Start of motorway and point from which motorway regulations apply
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Additional traffic joining from left ahead. Traffic on main carriageway has priority over joining traffic from right hand lane of slip road
Tourism leads to a wide range of potential employment opportunities by
‘Countdown’ markers at exit from motorway (each bar
represents 100 yards to the exit). Green-backed markers may be used on primary routes and white-backed markers with black bars on other routes. At approaches to
concealed level crossings white-backed markers with red bars may be used. Although these will be erected at equal distances the bars do not represent 100 yard intervals.
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generating jobs across a whole range of skills and occupations. Many of the jobs in tourism attract younger workers who might otherwise emigrate in search of
employment.
Source: Aviation: The Real World Wide Web. Oxford Economics.
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Globally, tourism directly employs 79 million people and in total supports 226 million jobs when downstream effects are taken into account.
Source: Aviation: The Real World Wide Web. Oxford Exonomics.
1. GDP – Gross Domestic Product
2. World Travel & Tourism Council Leading the Chal- lenge on Climate Change February 2009
3. Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller. Jeff Rubin. Pg 235
INCREASING MOBILITY OF POPULATIONS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
4. UNWTO World Tourism Barometer
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“Sustainable tourism is tourism that leads to the management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems”.
Source: World Tourism Organization (www.unwto.org)
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Maximum speed
National speed limit applies
School crossing patrol
Manually operated temporary STOP and GO signs
No entry for vehicular traffic
No motor vehicles
No buses (over 8
passenger seats)
No overtaking
No vehicle or combination of vehicles over length shown
No vehicles over
height shown
No vehicles over
width shown
No left turn
No U-turns
No goods vehicles over maximum gross weight
shown (in tonnes) except for loading and unloading
de shows many of the signs commonly in use, a comprehensive
m is given in the Department’s booklet Know Your Traffic Signs, The booklet also illustrates and explains the vast majority of signs er. The signs illustrated in The Highway Code are not all drawn to ual versions of some signs are used including Welsh and English Some older designs of signs may still be seen on the roads.
growth & employment
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