The Butler tourist model

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construction         EXPLORATION         REJUVENATION         farming         dominated INVOLVEMENT         6         resorts         increasing         DEVELOPMENT     Pleasure Beach services         package holidays             expands             natural beauty

Butler proposed that most tourist go through a six stage model and he called this the tourism life cycle model. 

It states that most tourist resorts start on a very small scale and get bigger and bigger until stagnation occurs.  Within the stages the following happens;
1) - a few hardy and adventurous people looking for something different in a holiday find a place that is special in terms of its culture, , history or landscape.  There may be no tourist services available and local people will not be involved in  tourist money making activities.
2) - local people start to notice that there are numbers of people coming to their local area.  They start up businesses as accommodation, food, guides, and transport.
3)  - Big companies start to see the emerging potential of the area as a tourist resort and therefore start to in the region.  They build large hotel complexes and sell (a package might include travel, accommodation, food and excursions).  This makes the numbers of tourists swell dramatically and massively the number of job opportunities for people in the local region, in both tourist related jobs and in and .
4) CONSOLIDATION - The local economy is probably by tourism at this stage, and many local people will make their money from this type of industry.  However, this can remove people from other industries such as and fishing and these industries can suffer as a result.  There will be continued building and expansion of the resort BUT some of the older buildings will start to become unattractive and a lower quality client base might result.
5) STAGNATION - competition from other resorts, rowdiness and a loss of the original features (e.g. if it had a great beach but that is now crowded and full of rubbish) can cause the resort to stop growing.  The number of people going levels off then starts to decline, threatening local businesses and services.
6) DECLINE OR ?  From the stagnation point onwards there are 2 basic possibilities:  Decline in various forms or rejuvenation (regrowth of the resort)  Decline can be slow or rapid, and regular visitors are replaced by people seeking a cheap break or day trippers.  Rejuvenation involves a cash injection from either a private company or the government, to create a new attraction within the original resort to boost its popularity - such as the at Blackpool.