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Slump in capital's tourism



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Published Date: 06 June 2008
EXPERTS are blaming the credit crunch, the early Easter weekend and a shortage of conference space for a slump in Edinburgh tourism.
Hotel occupancy rates in the capital fell by more than 5 per cent in April compared with the same month in 2007. The main industry measure of money generated from hotel stays – based on revenue per available rooms – was down 2.2 per cent in Edinburgh, compared to rises in Aberdeen and Glasgow.

Last month saw hotel occupancy rates rise 8.2 per cent for the UK, but Scotland suffered a 1.3 per cent dip.





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1

Buttress,

06/06/2008 10:10:16
Which experts? What evidence do they have that a shortage of conference space is the reason?

2

Ron S,

Edinburgh 06/06/2008 10:11:45
Nothing to do with the whole place being dug up I suppose.
3

Alasdair MacWhirter,

Boiling the kettle 06/06/2008 10:18:48
I could also be an expert as it seems you can blame anything and everything. So, perhaps people have heard about the bed tax and think its already in place, perhaps people don't want to have to negotiate great mounds of dirt, closed roads and view the magnificence of the earthworks that will (at some indeterminate future time) become a tram line or perhaps the conference venues are aware of the chaos all this is causing and not pushing for delegates?
4

Buttress,

06/06/2008 10:44:36
Or maybe it's those people in the Chamber of Commerce whose rentagob 'spokespeople' seem to think building ever more conference centres (and, indeed, hotels...) will be the way to bring tourists to the city? Nothing to do with the fact their propert portfolio is managed by Mountgrange of course... which hopes to demolish a listed building to build ... yup, a conference centre as part of its ghastly Caltongate development?

Seems the hotels already in Edinburgh aren't always full.

www.eh8.org.uk

5

Annoyingboi,

Edinburgh 06/06/2008 13:46:53
Start of the slippery slope for Edinburgh? Financial Services in decline, air travel in decline, Edinburgh in decline!

What now then Jenny Dawe? Build more hotels?

 

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