Honeypot (geography)

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In geography, a honeypot is a particularly popular attraction within a managed tourist area, such as a national park. Examples include Bowness-on-Windermere in the Lake District, Bakewell in Derbyshire,Swanage Malham Cove in the Yorkshire Dales, and Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park. Honeypot sites are often encouraged because they concentrate the damage caused by tourists on small sites, making conservation easier in other parts of the managed area. Honeypots can suffer from overcrowding problems including litter, strain on facilities and transport networks, crime and erosion, but are often promoted in order to reduce these problems in other areas. This term originates from when all the bees buzz around their bee hives and honey.

A honey pot is a place that lots of people visit and they mostly stay for about one day. Some examples of a honey pots are Drayton manor, licky hills, Stonehenge etc. people make a living from running honey pots like by George Bryan who built Drayton manor in 1949 as an Inland Pleasure Resort. The adventure park is still being run today by the same family.