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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Tourism: Improvement at ports, stations and hotels |
| Date | 1948 |
| Document type | Government Records; Correspondence |
| Description | This is a government report into how to make ports and railways more tourist-friendly in the UK post-war (material dates from 1948). Solutions included offering budget travel and developing the facilities available on trains (such as the restaurant cars). |
| Series description | British Railways and predecessor railway companies: Hotels and Catering Services: Minutes, Reports, Papers and Miscellaneous Records. Records of British Railways' Hotels Executive, 1948 to 1953, British Transport Hotels and Catering Services Division, 1953 to 1962, and British Transport Hotels Ltd from 1962. They include pre-nationalization records, from 1838, of the following companies: Great Western; London and Birmingham; London and North Eastern; London and North Western; London, Brighton and South Coast; London, Midland and Scottish; Midland; North Western; South Eastern; South Eastern and Chatham; and Southern. The records relate to all aspects of hotels and catering services and include minutes, reports and memoranda; files on meetings between management and unions and employers and employees; and files on individual hotels. |
| Theme(s) | Planning and Business International Relations About themes |
| Regions | United Kingdom |
| Country/State | England Scotland Wales |
| Keywords | rationing, railway, transport, tourists, budget travel, excursion, motor car |
| Collection | Records created or inherited by the British Transport Commission, the British Railways Board, and related bodies |
| Reference | AN 109/802 |
| Library | The National Archives, UK |
| Language | English |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |