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Offline SteveH

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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #915 on: July 01, 2015, 05:07:00 pm »
Music tourism pumping £95m into Welsh economy

Music tourism pumped £95m into the Welsh economy last year - with North Wales events like Festival No.6 and Access All Eirias leading the way.

UK Music has published Wish You Were Here 2015 – a new report that reveals the vast contribution of music tourism to the economy in Wales.
The study - carried out by Oxford Economics for UK Music - showed that over 211,000 music tourists visited Wales in 2014 to attend a concert or music festival.
These visitors generated £95 million ........?.. &shake& ....?......in total for the local economy, and helped sustain 768 full-time local jobs.

In North Wales the big festivals of 2014 included Wakestock in Abersoch, Festival No.6 at Portmeirion and Access All Eirias which brought singing legend Tom Jones to Colwyn Bay.
MORE..........http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/music-tourism-pumping-95m-welsh-9561419

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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #916 on: July 01, 2015, 05:24:10 pm »
Music tourism pumping £95m into Welsh economy

Music tourism pumped £95m into the Welsh economy last year - with North Wales events like Festival No.6 and Access All Eirias leading the way.

UK Music has published Wish You Were Here 2015 – a new report that reveals the vast contribution of music tourism to the economy in Wales.
The study - carried out by Oxford Economics for UK Music - showed that over 211,000 music tourists visited Wales in 2014 to attend a concert or music festival.
These visitors generated £95 million ........?.. &shake& ....?......in total for the local economy, and helped sustain 768 full-time local jobs.

In North Wales the big festivals of 2014 included Wakestock in Abersoch, Festival No.6 at Portmeirion and Access All Eirias which brought singing legend Tom Jones to Colwyn Bay.
MORE..........http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/music-tourism-pumping-95m-welsh-9561419

Yeah right... each person spent £450 each.    &shake& :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #917 on: July 01, 2015, 06:15:48 pm »
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Yeah right... each person spent £450 each

That's not what the the report states. Rather it says they 'generated' the amount in question.

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These visitors generated £95 million in total for the local economy, and helped sustain 768 full-time local jobs.

It's a complex study but seems soundly based on stats from the ONS and the Virtual Microdata Lab (VML) maintained by the ONS. Based on the models they've used and the criteria they've applied it seems - if anything - to be understating the case.
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #918 on: July 02, 2015, 07:58:15 am »
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Yeah right... each person spent £450 each

That's not what the the report states. Rather it says they 'generated' the amount in question.

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These visitors generated £95 million in total for the local economy, and helped sustain 768 full-time local jobs.

It's a complex study but seems soundly based on stats from the ONS and the Virtual Microdata Lab (VML) maintained by the ONS. Based on the models they've used and the criteria they've applied it seems - if anything - to be understating the case.

Wish I could believe these's figures banded about.
How many people come to town just see a show never stay or spend any money in cafes ect, that would mean some pods are spending vast sums of money.

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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #919 on: July 02, 2015, 10:13:12 am »
I'm really not convinced that the figures are reliable. Many local people just attend a concert, then drive home afterwards.

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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #920 on: July 02, 2015, 10:42:02 am »
Like us, if we go to Venue Cymru, park for free, spend nothing, take our own snacks with us, drive straight home afterwards, I doubt if we show in any statistics!
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« Reply #921 on: July 02, 2015, 12:29:31 pm »
Like us, if we go to Venue Cymru, park for free, spend nothing, take our own snacks with us, drive straight home afterwards, I doubt if we show in any statistics!

.... that is no different to 90% of the visitors to Llandudno these days, except some nip into Poundland and get the bus!
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #922 on: July 02, 2015, 01:58:58 pm »
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I'm really not convinced that the figures are reliable. Many local people just attend a concert, then drive home afterwards.

They do explain how they've accounted for that seeming anomaly.
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #923 on: July 02, 2015, 02:32:30 pm »
Like us, if we go to Venue Cymru, park for free, spend nothing, take our own snacks with us, drive straight home afterwards, I doubt if we show in any statistics!

.... that is no different to 90% of the visitors to Llandudno these days, except some nip into Poundland and get the bus!

Poundland has a bus stop inside it? Amazing! ☺
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #924 on: July 03, 2015, 10:08:42 am »
Like us, if we go to Venue Cymru, park for free, spend nothing, take our own snacks with us, drive straight home afterwards, I doubt if we show in any statistics!

.... that is no different to 90% of the visitors to Llandudno these days, except some nip into Poundland and get the bus!

Poundland has a bus stop inside it? Amazing! ☺

How much are the buses?   $good$

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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #925 on: July 03, 2015, 10:28:32 am »
How much are the buses?   $good$

A pound? 
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #926 on: July 06, 2015, 08:58:56 pm »
How much are the buses?   $good$

A pound?

Free if you've got a Welsh Bus Pass.  ;D
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #927 on: July 08, 2015, 07:50:11 am »
Seen this by my colleague about Plas Gwilym quarry site?

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/old-colwyn-quarry-housing-plans-9608559

It's long been time something was done on that site.
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #928 on: July 08, 2015, 08:32:26 am »
I was just looking at that on Facebook, seems a good idea. $good$
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Re: Everything to do with Colwyn Bay
« Reply #929 on: July 08, 2015, 06:21:43 pm »
Who would want to live in the dark for a few months a year? The bridge would give access for your property to be viewed over from a great height......daft idea?!