Prime Minister David Cameron has thrown his weight behind Britain's tourism industry, as he set out a vision for the country to be one of the world's top five destinations.
www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2010/08/13/334660/tourism-can-save-economy-says-cameron.htm
(you can click on the title "Tourism can save" etc to follow the link)
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Not around here it cant STC and PDC do all they can to stiffle it able assited by a barrel load of moaning ungratefull OAPs - sorry some below that age- no help no encouragement nothing.
Vision of Swanage extra large doctors 4 more chemists, no cycle lane just mobility scooter lanes dangerous drivers and cr£ppy patking.
With all due respect, Swanage hotels and B&Bs do not attract. A cheap Travelodge would be packed every night.
What is the basis for that remark? It does not explain the "No vacancies" signs the local establishments are displaying. In fact most of them are busy in all except the quietest months.
A large basic hotel might well be busy but they offer little employment and of course the profits are drained away out of town. We need both to get tourist money spent here and to keep it circulating in the local economy as many times as possible.
I disagree with all this moaning. If you want to change something get off your bums and do it yourself !! You are a load of whinging moaners. Swanage is what you make it. If you don't like it, move and make way for someone else who has a more positive attitude.
A Travelodge ?? How inspiring is that ??
Sadly, Cameron is a clown in cloud cuckoo land those who voted for this lot are going to regret so much. He talks complete tosh on any subject matter put before him.
Tourism is not really going to save anything is it? The only time it is sustainably busy in seaside resorts, (Swanage included) and their like is during the school holidays. Stagger the education system and more families may, and I mean may, stay in British resorts more occasionally.
Take this year, the best of the weather and lighter nights is before they break up ... what use is education for the majority of the kids in the UK anyway ... they are mostly nasty young individuals who make pensioners' lives a misery!
I hope Education Swanage does not expect support from the previous poster!
4.11 Wrong ! Staggering school holidays would help tourism in Swanage and the Purbecks. How about some language schools in the town too? They would inject some much needed life into the town and bring with it cash for local businesses.
4.11 Wrong ! Staggering school holidays would help tourism in Swanage and the Purbecks.
I dont know where the"Purbecks" are I live in Purbeck. Irritating person.
Sorry its been tried in Spain and works. The Purbecks is the generic name for this area according to a number of web sites - check it out on google...It may be irritati!ng but true!
Sorry its been tried in Spain and works. The Purbecks is the generic name for this area according to a number of web sites - check it out on google...It may be irritati!ng but true!
I dont give a flying FFFF what it says on google or where ever its PURBECK or the ISLE of PURBECK
So put that in your pipe and smoke idiot outsider!
"How about some language schools in the town too?"
Are you beaming this down from another planet? We have had one for over 40 years.
Its Purbeck or the Purbecks as acknowledged by many inside and outsiders as well as various web sites. Lets agree to differ. One thing it isnt is the Isle of Purbeck although that is a very commonly used name it isnt geographically correct. I guess you wont care a **** about that either . Have a good day.
Its Purbeck or the Purbecks as acknowledged by many inside and outsiders as well as various web sites. Lets agree to differ. One thing it isnt is the Isle of Purbeck although that is a very commonly used name it isnt geographically correct. I guess you wont care a **** about that either . Have a good day.
Wellidiot my farther and his and his called it the isle of purbeck so unless 200 yrs of history is wrong? and it is not the purbecks, you can say all you want its PURBECK or the ISLE of Purbeck.
You ignorant, arrogant outsiders think you know it all well you dont.
PS I suspect you play golf? where? Isle purbeck???? or is that my mistake?
Yes, having ventured outside of Swanage once I discovered it wasn't an isle after all. Dont believe everything you are told!
Yawn, yawn. Pedantic prats.
It is not 'The Purbecks' !
I didn't post any of the previous comments, but also get upset to hear our place of birth called 'The Purbecks'. There is only one Purbeck..so its (singular)without the 's' or The Isle of Purbeck (still singular) ie. One Purbeck. The Isle of Purbeck is an Island..its everything this side of Wareham bridge. Wareham bridge takes you over the river that divides us from the 'mainland'!!
Personally, I don't mind whether you call it the IoP or the Purbecks. I grew up in the IoP.
If you can be bothered then click on the link which is the 1558 description of the IoP
http://tinyurl.com/28vbqvd
That is basically a description of walking up the river from Flowers Barrow to where it joined the River Frome, just in case, that's the one on the Swanage side of Wareham. the other Wareham river is the Piddle, or the Trent; names, eh!
That river's gone now, so, technically we're a peninsular. I find it funny that the word peninsular contains the word insular!
But, we're all wrong cuz then it was known as The Isle of Pvrbek.
Times and names change, remember and celebrate our history, but don't get dragged down by it. And for those of you without a local history, Swanage is a product of it's history, so if you like the place, respect its history.
Jesus Christ have you seen you lot!! Squabbling like 2 year olds , could get more sense out of my kids then half you lot on here. Please lets calm down and chill for a second.
Right back on track now people , well I reckon the b and b's do rather well in Swanage , thou Swanage does needs things for people to do all year round , yes I know theres walking , climbing , sailing , biking. But we dont have much else to offer once the summer hols are over , except for the folk festival and new years eve.
I'm 6,32.
David, David, David, it's you who needs to chill a bit!
On blogs you have to interpret a bit, my post was meant to lay all the linguistic cobblers to bed - and if you can't see that, um .......
Seaside towns are seasonal, we don't have (enough) snow to interest those who take winter holidays, the coaches don't come here during the Winter - thank God!
The answer that you seem to want is that we to build some out of this world, flurkin, never seen before facility, that'll cost millions of pounds.
I know, there's loads of unused fields in Herston, let's buld it there ....
Please don't forget the other Blues festival, or the other Folk festival, or all the events that happen at the Square, new festival at Kimmeridge, Victorian Street market, various Steam Train activities ....
Almost all run by volunteers, who are taking a risk, what do you run .....?
Private sector investors willing to put millions into building an attraction want two things. A location within 10 miles of a motorway junction or at least a major road and a site big enough to put it on. Swanage offers neither Paultons Park for example would take up a space stretching from the beach to the parish church.
There was a lot of discussion of the lack of wet weather facilities back in the 70s and this culminated in the construction of the shelter that stood next to the amusement arcade. I will not dwell on the extent of the vision of the council which seemed to have imagined that visitors would pass a wet week looking out at the sea and ask for nothing more. I hope we have more respect for our customers now.
Visitors to Swanage have two wet weather options, which they exercise with alacrity when the weather deteriorates:
If they are soon to be Swanage bound, they check the weather forecast and, if it is bad, they cancel their trip.
Those already in Swanage when the weather deteriorates get in their car and go elsewhere to spend money, or cut their visit short.
Even Bournemouth tourism chiefs are aware of this trend. They actually create their own 'optimistic' weather forecast to counter any real (i.e. negative) weather forecast issued by the BBC.
Oh dear.
B'mouths 'own' weather forecast was just a publicity stunt.
People look at the B'mouth forecast, most likely on the Beeb, ITV etc and it's bad so they don't come. If it's good, they come.
That doesn't guarantee the weather they'll get when they arrive.
plenty of people have seen a good forecast for B'mouth, come down and found it wet.
but at least theres something for them if its wet in Bournemouth. Maybe we need to rethink this (not another shelter on the seafront....)
The worthy inhabitants of Bournemouth grouch about the lack of wet weather activities just as much as we do in Swanage strangely enough. Has anybody any examples of things in other places that are a success and do not lurch from crisis to crisis?
2:15 PM
Adults always have options; we have cash, transport and the freedom to do adult things. Rainy Sunday afternoon? Down to the pub; flop in front of Sky sports; have a snooze. The problem is for parents with kids.
If I could wish for one amenity for Swanage, it would be for a full sports centre swimming pool like the Purbeck pool on the SMS site. This would provide one indoor resources for wet days and would benefit all generations year round.
Failing to have that, I think Swanage needs to join with Purbeck Sports Centre and make it possible for everyone to get there cheaply and easily. How about STC, PDC and W&D (and the Purbeck Sports Centre) create an all-in ticket whereby the entrance fee to PSC covers return bus fare on W&D (which should swing by Purbeck School on certain route times, and all weekends). With all the concessions already out there, I think a lot of the money needed for this exists under other schemes. Meanwhile, any holiday makers could obtain a voucher from their B&B or other place of residence for the same concession; call it a 'visitor day pass'.
The devil is in the details but I think it is worth a look. It may be an answer that is already under our noses.
Corben and sons obviously think it is the Purbecks see p 19 Gazette
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