Geography Coursework

Pickering is a historic market town located in northwest Yorkshire, between York and the North Yorkshire coast. Pickering has mevery holidaymaker attractions like, the steam railway, Pickering castle, the market and the countryside. It is the gateway to the North York Moors National Park, with its appealing scenery. We ar interested to find out what it is that specifically attracts holidaymakers to that bea.This is a map of Pickering along with the attractions of PickeringTwo groups took a geography trip to Pickering on two separate days and. Both groups created their own questionnaires and we asked random members of the state-supported these questions. These ar some of the questions we asked sight while we were in Pickering. Once we had received our results from our questionnaires we compared them with the opposite groups results1.Do you live in A. PickeringB. the area around PickeringC. or are you a tourist2.What would you tell is the main tourist attractionA. The castle B. The steam railwayC. The countryside3. What mode of transport did you use to get here todayA. passportB. CarC. BusD. early(a)4. How long did it take you to travel here todayA. Less than 15 minutesB. 15 minutes 1 minute of arcC. 1 instant +5. If you are localDo you do most of your shopping in PickeringI Yesii No6. If you are a tourist A Is this your first visit to PickeringI Yesii NoB. Would you visit Pickering again circuit card AWhere batch live Wednesday atomic number 90Pickering 58% 52%Around Pickering 26% 18%Tourists 16% 30%With these results you give notice clearly see that a mass of the interviewees were mainly from Pickering. This is somewhat unexpected as Pickering relies on tourists to visit the area. I think the groups went at the wrong time of year because if we went during the school holidays then you should see that there would be an increase in the tote up of tourists because they would strike the time off school and work. Diagram AMy first hypothesis is that on the day that I went on the trip to Pickering I conceit there were more local people than tourists. I can prove this with my results from Diagram A and delay A from our questionnaires we asked. However if we had visited Pickering on the market day then we would stomach seen an increase in the number of local people as the market would attract more local people rather than tourists.Table BThe main tourist attraction Wednesday thoriumCastle 12% 15%Steam railway 64% 55%Countryside 17% 15%Other 7% 15%Diagram BThe results above show that the on both(prenominal) days the steam railway is the favoured tourist attraction with the majority of the percentage. These results are not exactly unexpected for the reason that the steam railway travels through the countryside so people would still catch a glimpse of the countryside, but because they are on the steam railway they would maybe think that the attraction they are seeing is the steam railway when actually they are viewing the co untryside as well.This is a picture of the favourite tourist attraction the steam railway.With my second hypothesis I can say that people preferred the steam railway to the other attractions. I can show this with Diagram B and Table B for the reason that my results show that on Wednesday 64% of people preferred the railway and on Thursday 55% of people favoured the steam railway to the other attractions.Table CTransport Wednesday ThursdayWalk 20% 30%Car 56.5% 36%Bus 14.5% 18%Steam train 6.5% 10%Other 3% 6%With these figure we have collated you can clearly see that the main method of transport was the car. This isnt surprising seen as people rely too much on cars at present, with the majority of people owning one. This is surprising seen as the main tourist attraction is the steam railway so they must have left their cars in the car park while they travelled on the steam railway. afterward the car, walking was next on both days. With the groups both going during school time and not in a holiday, there would have been more interviewees that are local to the area of Pickering and would have been able to walk there.My groups results wereDiagram C.For the third hypothesis I can say that the favoured method of transport would be the car. I can back this up with Diagram C and Table C because 56.5% used a car on Wednesday and 36% on Thursday. However on Thursday totally 36% travelled by car which maybe suggest that on Thursday there were more local people in Pickering but if you look at my results they show that on Wednesday there were more local people in Pickering.Diagram DTable D travelling time Wednesday ThursdayLess than 15 minutes 48% 42%15 minutes- 1 hour 31% 36%More than 1 hour 21% 22%On both days it took more people less than 15 minutes to travel into Pickering.The majority of people took less than 15 minutes to travel to Pickering. This is mainly because most of the interviewees were from Pickering and the area around Pickering. This is surprising as Picke ring is a tourist town and most of the people we asked were either from Pickering or the area around Pickering and were not actually tourists.My fifth hypothesis is that with the travelling time I can say that a majority of people questioned on both days were from Pickering as it took them less time to travel into Pickering. I can back this up with the results from Table D and Diagram D which both say that the people questioned took 15 minutes or less to travel into Pickering.We also asked people whether they did most o their shopping in Pickering. Our results wereDiagram EThese results show that most of the interviewees didnt do most of their shopping in Pickering. This isnt surprising as Pickering doesnt have a major shopping store or any big name stores. So the local people forget have to travel out of Pickering to buy all of the luxury items. But the shops that Pickering has are sell the basic goods.With these results they show that a majority of people on both days do their s hopping outside(a) of Pickering.Table EDo you do most of your shopping in Pickering? Wednesday ThursdayYes 33% 44%No 67% 56%These results show that most of the interviewees didnt do most of their shopping in Pickering. This isnt surprising as Pickering doesnt have a major shopping store or any big name stores. So the local people will have to travel out of Pickering to buy all of the luxury items. But the shops that Pickering has are selling the basic goods.With these results they show that a majority of people on both days do their shopping outside of Pickering.My sixth hypothesis is that I can say that the people questioned would rather do their shopping outside of Pickering and I can establish this with Table E and Diagram E with both of these showing that people prefer shopping outside of Pickering. Along with only 33% on Wednesday and 44% on Thursday saying they do most of their shopping in Pickering.Table FIs this your first visit to Pickering? Wednesday ThursdayYes 12% 33%No 88% 67%Diagram FMost of the interviewees express that this wasnt their first visit to Pickering. I think with this question we should have asked if they were a tourist or not. That way we would have had a better idea of who were tourists and who were local to the area this way we would have had different results from the people we interviewed. With a lot of people saying that it wasnt their first visit to Pickering shows that if they were tourists then they enjoyed visiting Pickering and they decided to travel there again.For my seventh hypothesis I can say that people the people questioned had visited Pickering before and as a consequence of this they visited Pickering again. I can prove this with my Table F and Diagram F. Table F shows that on both days a majority of people had visited Pickering before. However there were a small number of people who hadnt visited Pickering before. I think that if people said that it was their first visit to Pickering then we should have asked t hem if they enjoyed their time in Pickering and if they would visit the area again.Diagram GTable GWould you visit Pickering again? Wednesday ThursdayYes 96.5% 82%No 3.5% 18%With these sets of results they show that a lot of the people questioned said that they would visit Pickering again. That shows that Pickering is a pleasant place and is a delightful experience. It seems that on Thursday there were more people that wouldnt visit Pickering so maybe the people on Thursday thought that Pickering wasnt an enjoyable place to visit. Whereas Wednesdays results prove that people visiting Pickering was satisfied with the area.My eighth hypothesis is that Im able to say that given the chance people would visit Pickering again. I can provide evidence to this with Table G and Diagram G which both say that the majority of people enjoyed their visit to Pickering and would take another trip to the town of PickeringA semi-conclusion would be that a majority of people on both days was fond of Pi ckering and many of the interviewees had visited Pickering before our visit there and would gladly visit again. Although, there isnt a medium-large shopping centre nearby to attract the tourists or for the locals to do their shopping, people still flock to Pickering for the market on Wednesdays and the steam railway. A lot of people who had travelled to Pickering didnt travel for a lengthy amount of time which suggests that a lot of people who were visiting Pickering were from nearby and didnt have to travel very far. recently I took a trip with a few of my class-mates to Beverley and asked people there the same questionnaire with a few alterations. We did that so that we could compare the results from Pickering to those of Beverley.We found that a majority of people asked were from the area around Beverley unlike that of people asked in Pickering as most of them were from Pickering itself. Unlike the Pickering survey, were over half the people asked didnt do their shopping in Pick ering. The Beverley survey recorded that half of the people in question did their shopping in Beverley.We asked if people would visit the designated town again given the choice and in Pickering there was a few people who said no but in Beverley everybody in question would visit Beverley again.To conclude my study I can say that the reason people are specifically attracted to Pickering is that most people are interested in the steam railway or the market which are both located in Pickering. Where as, in Beverley people were attracted to visiting Beverley because they were visiting or have visited Beverley Minster.A few ways in which I could have improved my study is that I could have included a plan of the shops and businesses of Pickering. Also, I could have written about the shops and businesses and say if they were high, medium or impression order businesses. I could have also asked more people the questionnaire which would have made a difference to my results. Also I could have visited Pickering or Beverley on multiple days and then compared the results to see what differences there would be and I could compare each day with one another.