It is believed that there has been a decline in seaside entertainment since the 1960s. In England, for instance, a tourist board study of seaside entertainment reported in 1984 that the traditional summer show (large star-centred and theatre-based) was disappearing. In nineteen coastal tourist towns surveyed, the number of summer shows had fallen from 30 in 1974 to 21 in 1983 (English Tourist Board, 1984).