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• what is Bronte Country


  literary association: a village in West Yorkshire where the Bronte sisters wrote novels and poems in the 19th century
• positives of Bronte Country


  - visitors come to see the landscape that inspired the sisters, in particular, the Moorland that was the backdrop of 'Wuthering Heights'

  - many of the buildings have a protected status and it has cobbled streets

  - it now has tea rooms, bookshops and guesthouses with a Bronte connection

  - the Bronte Museum receives 90,000 visitors annually

  - a film called 'Bronte Country' about the sisters, encouraging tourism

  - created jobs

  - The Fairtrade way: promotes a fair price for workers in developing countries + eco villages e.g. Poundbury promotes ethical and sustainable tourism

  - revenue used to preserve and protect area
• negatives of Bronte Country


  - local villages struggle to accommodate for the volume of tourists and traffic

  - traffic congestion

  - seasonal economy

  - post-production countryside: not all farms are able to diversify
• what is The Yorkshire Swimworks


  Bronte county: natural lido (without chemicals) for seimmmimg Private business individual was given £4500 grant for research to see if the project would be economically profitable

  on a 7 acre site that used to be a water treatment plant