Attractions Urged to Start Preparing for 2012
VisitBritain tourism agency has offered advice to Weymouth & Portlands tourist attractions: ‘Start preparing now’. Top on the agenda according to the agency is the need to learn foreign languages to help the influx of foreign visitors.
Lord Coe has jumped in on the act describing the games as a ‘once in a lifetime opportunity for the UK’. Management committee chairman Brian Ellis commented the borough had to ‘grab the games with both hands’:
“We have to make sure that we have a proper welcome ready for foreign visitors if we are to reap economic benefits before, during and after the Games. If we get in early we can make sure that the benefits to Weymouth and Portland carry on long after the Games are over.
“We have to realise that when visitors from another country arrive in Weymouth and Portland they need to be properly welcomed and, where possible, fully assisted as far as their living needs and requirements are concerned.”
The bottom line is that visitors from all countries are made to feel welcome and leave the town with a great impression so that they will be visiting our shores for years to come. Let’s hope they don’t come across our ‘polite’ youth population then.
Posted: January 3rd, 2007 under Hotels/Accommodation, Misc, Sailing Academy.
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