Tourism

Abstract

In 1887, 310 916 visitors landed at Douglas alone during the summer season. The number of passengers landed at other ports is unknown, and so the true number of tourists is likely to have been greater still. Generally in the 1890s upwards of a quarter of a million passengers, mostly tourists, were landed at Douglas in the summer season of May to September. The tourist accommodation industry had grown commensurately, and showed a wider spread across the Island than is now current. In particular, Ramsey rivalled Douglas as a resort of this period. The boom era of tourism to the island has long since gone, and the industry has suffered a protracted retrenchment and restructuring. The present chapter reviews the extent of this retrenchment, the response of the Manx Government and tourist industry and the contemporary nature of tourism on the Island. -from Author