5.7.1 Thanet covers an area of 40 square miles, with 26 miles of coastline made up of a series of sandy beaches, backed by chalk cliffs. The area has three main resorts; Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate. They are all traditional seaside resorts, but differ in character (Table 56)

SEETB (1998)

5.7.2 The top three activities are walking along the promenade, shopping and spending time on the beach. Walks in the countryside and museums are much less popular for day visitors. Day visitors and staying visitors are generally reasonably aware of attractions across Thanet, with 60-70% of all visitors have good awareness of the larger attractions. 50% of staying visitors and 45% of day visitors are aware of the Spitfire Museum at Manston (Chysalis, 1997).

5.7.3 On the basis of findings from the Thanet Tourism Study (Chrysalis, 1998), it is expected that a proportion of passengers using LMA will stay overnight in the area either before their flight or on their return. This is expected to have a range of direct and indirect benefits to the tourism and recreation in Thanet.

5.7.4 LMA will not affect the existing and amenity value of the Thanet Bridleway Network. In fact the restrictions placed on the road west of Manston village to Manston Court Road are likely to add to the value of this amenity.

5.8.2 The OEF (1999) study identified the structure of direct UK Employment at airports as illustrated by Table 95. Around 60% of employees work directly for airlines or handling agents (e.g. as flight crew, check-in staff, maintenance crews etc). Another 10% work in concessions (retail outlets, restaurants), with 4% in freight /cargo businesses and 6% in control agencies (including HM Customs and Excise, immigration). The remainder work in a variety of organisations, including on-site ancillary activities such as hotels.

OEF (1999)

5.8.3 OEF estimates that airport operators constitute only 11% of the total numbers of people employed in UK airports. This assessment only examines the direct and consequential impacts of employment generated by LMA and not other aircraft handling agents, airlines and other ancillary employers directly related to the airport (Table 95). This means that these figures are likely to be a significant underestimate.

5.8.4 In addition, jobs will be generated in other industries that support airports. Examples include jobs in energy sector (through fuel procurement), aerospace sector (through the supply of aircraft equipment), employment in the IT sector providing computer systems, construction workers building additional facilities and workers required to manufacture goods sold in airport retail outlets.

5.8.5 Predicted staff numbers to be employed at LMA are presented in Table 96. Estimates of total salaries provided by these jobs is provided in Table 97.

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