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City among top tourist destinations (From Daily Echo)
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Southampton among top tourist destinations
2:50pm Thursday 17th January 2013 in News
City among top tourist destinations
SOUTHAMPTON has been named among Britain’s most popular tourist destinations despite the recession.
More than 871,000 visitors flocked to the city during 2011, according to a report by one of the UK’s leading hotel chains, Travelodge.
The study shows that the number of people holidaying in Southampton rose by more than 100,000 since 2007 – an increase of 14 per cent.
The impressive figures placed the city fifth in the list of Britain’s most popular towns and cities, in terms of the percentage increase in visitor numbers.
Southampton was beaten only by York, Skegness, Scarborough and Liverpool, which came out on top of the poll with a 23 per cent rise in tourist numbers.
And the impressive results saw the city beat the likes of London, Newcastle and Birmingham.
Meanwhile, the overall number of people holidaying in the UK increased by three per cent, to 157 million.
Grant Hearn, CEO of Travelodge, said: “Our report confirms UK tourism has successfully weathered the recession and outperformed other key sectors, which is really great news.
“As the UK’s fifth largest sector, we are creating jobs and providing long-lasting career opportunities, something very few industries in the economy can say at present.”
Comments(13)
arizonan
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3:56pm Thu 17 Jan 13
kingnotail
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4:20pm Thu 17 Jan 13
Big Mac wrote:Either that or New Forest visitors? Cos there's f**k all else reason to visit Southampton! More tourists than London? Seriously pull the other one..
Sure it's not the one night stay before departing on a cruise liner brigade that bolsters Travelodge's numbers?
southy
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5:15pm Thu 17 Jan 13
kingnotail wrote:Will agree with you as London if I remember rightly is listed 5th in Europe, and Southampton do not even reach going on the list, to get on the list must have over 1.5 million in a year.
Big Mac wrote:Either that or New Forest visitors? Cos there's f**k all else reason to visit Southampton! More tourists than London? Seriously pull the other one..
Sure it's not the one night stay before departing on a cruise liner brigade that bolsters Travelodge's numbers?
our numbers are boosted by over nites stays before joining a ship
cantthinkofone
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6:04pm Thu 17 Jan 13
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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That's brilliant Echo. Just brilliant. Comedy gold. :-D
As suggested above - cruise liners, base for going *somewhere else* from, or business traffic. It's certainly not the delights of this fair city. Fkn lol.
No byline on the article? Don't blame you lol.
skin2000
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6:09pm Thu 17 Jan 13
hythe knights
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8:39pm Thu 17 Jan 13
huckit P
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8:46pm Thu 17 Jan 13
Visit the Town Quay and get ripped off with the parking charges, Visit Ocean Village (ops, sorry, it isn't there any more). Get clonked on the head by an Itchen Bridge barrier and then enjoy the smells of Weston Shore before going to view the wrecks and scrap yard near Northam at low tide.
Whoopee!
Echo... yer avin a larf, aint ya?
skin2000
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9:02pm Thu 17 Jan 13
huckit P wrote:Don't the Metal Mountains on view in Southampton Docks, with forecast of snow, it could become a new winter resort?
Yes... come to Southampton and visit Ikea and West Quay. That's if you have enough patience to sit in the traffic queue's at the interminable number of traffic lights and road works.
Visit the Town Quay and get ripped off with the parking charges, Visit Ocean Village (ops, sorry, it isn't there any more). Get clonked on the head by an Itchen Bridge barrier and then enjoy the smells of Weston Shore before going to view the wrecks and scrap yard near Northam at low tide.
Whoopee!
Echo... yer avin a larf, aint ya?
G0Rf
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9:13pm Thu 17 Jan 13
Not because we have tourists!
Southampton has nothing to offer a tourist....does it????
kingnotail
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9:13am Fri 18 Jan 13
G0Rf wrote:Nope, it doesn't. The article actually says Southampton had the fifth largest percentage increase in tourists in 2011, hardly something to shout about when 95% of these will be one night cruise stopovers. If you look at the actual tourist visitor numbers for 2011, Southampton isn't even in the top 20. As you'd expect for a city with no tourist attractions!!
That will be because Southampton FC got promotion to the EPL or because people are on their way to the cruise liners.
Not because we have tourists!
Southampton has nothing to offer a tourist....does it????
arizonan
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4:11pm Fri 18 Jan 13
kingnotail
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3:49pm Sat 19 Jan 13
arizonan wrote:Once Liverpool gets the cruise turnarounds, Southampton's monopoly will be broken and the city will hopefully be forced to actually find ways of attracting people to visit for reasons other than one-night cruise stopovers. Maybe by actually making something out of its history? This can only be a good thing.
Metal Mountains, people forced to stay a night because of a cruise monopoly, pity this was not mentioned during this newspapers Cruise Wars tirade.
Big Mac says...
3:40pm Thu 17 Jan 13