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Pete G Jul 8, 2006 15:18:09

Rockhenge? Pah!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5158908.stm

Stonehenge focus of tourism plan
Front of report - Salisbury District Council
Salisbury Cathedral and Longleat help pull in the tourists
A 10-year blueprint for the future of the tourism industry in south Wiltshire has been published.

The strategy - entitled Nice Church Great Rocks - highlights Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge among other important draws on the tourist map.

Salisbury District Council said visitors brought in about £400,000 to the local economy every day.

A spokesperson said: "It's an essential part of the economy. It is important we don't take this for granted."

The plan sets out action points for the next 10 years including an online accommodation availability checker, increasing the number and quality of restaurants and improving signs in urban and village centres.

Councillor Margaret Peach said: "We boast top tourist attractions such as Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, Longleat and Old Sarum as well as some of the most beautiful countryside found in the UK.

"A thriving tourism economy supports the wider local economy, which has a knock-on benefit for everyone who lives and works in south Wiltshire and that's why the council, with the support of the local tourism industry, has produced this very important strategy," she said.

Steve Gray Jul 8, 2006 16:29:46

Replying to Pete G

Pete G wrote:

Rockhenge? Pah!

Nice Church Great Rocks - highlights Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge among other important draws on the tourist map.

I think it's supposed to be someone's attempt at Meiosis (the figure of speech in which something is delibeately understated; not to be confused with the biological term of the same spelling) given that Salisbury Cathedral is referred to as a "church".

Littlestone Jul 8, 2006 16:43:46

Replying to Pete G

I was at Stonehenge this time last week. Someone, sitting in their car (all doors open) in the carpark had the footie blasting forth. Jeeze why go to Stonehenge to listen to the footie and inflict it on everyone else?

In the evening of the same day, at Avebury, two 'new age' toads, male and in their twenties, had climbed the recently straightened stone in the cove and were exhibiting their prowess at doing so. Tossers. Someone on the radio this morning said that tourism was the brothel of society (or words to that effect). I'd like to slap some of these 'tourists' who have so little regard for our heritage and the quiet people who go to see it but I can't. When I'm really really old though, and no longer have anything to lose, I shall hit them on their bonnets and on their shoulders with my walking stick.