Stonehenge an Attraction?
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Stonehenge has been around for a long time now and it has now been turned into a tourism place for tourists to go. For a small fee, almost anyone can view Stonehenge and take pictures and such. They have their opening times and holidays in which their closed, they have an entry fee, they have special facilities, and almost anything a theme park would have except for rides and all of the people. They have tour guides, and there is limited acess to the center circle. They also offer free educational visits, but what are they doing to get more people to visit? Well, from special Stonehenge websites they have decided to remove roads and they are trying to add a World Class Visitor Center. This would mean that some of the old land will be removed to increase people visiting. Yet, WHY make it like this?

Left: Great Picture of Stonehenge. Site: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ apod/ap020509.html
Stonehenge has been around for so long now. There are just minor imperfections that they will fix, but they will try to bring the tourism place more up to date. Stonehenge will be like an attraction, but they probably won't guard it like Disneyland would guard their place. Now, most people are complaining that they shouldn't be the ones paying to see something from their own heritage, but the government just says that the stone circle was given to the government in 1918 by Sir Cecil Chubb with the
provision that a charge was to be made to pay for the upkeep. So, Stonehenge isn't really an attraction or a theme park. It's just trying to keep the agreement they had made. Then to fufil that agreement, they had to charge people to visit and such. It's not greed. It's just that their trying to keep an age old promise made.