Tourists bring money into the town!
Oh, yeah? Who gets that then?
Approximately 4% of the local population work in tourism. Sounds good. However, most are either working behind a till, serving tables, washing up, changing sheets or cleaning. Worthy jobs but not the best paid. Only a tiny fraction of the 4% make any real money. But our local economy is supposed to thrive on tourism. How?
Sure the council spend money on promoting the town, dressing it up to look like a seaside cliche, but for whose profit?
I wonder if any local councilors are involved in any of the tourist businesses. Can’t be possible can it?
Thought - Why do the Germans call their council offices ‘Rat Haus’?
On top of the fact that most tourist money goes to a very few, the local tax payer has to fund the clean up operations each weekend and the slow conversion of the town aesthetic to a poor mans Scarborough look-a-like, with silly boat shaped flower planters and helm shaped benches. Save us please.
Question: Do the increasingly large numbers of East Europeans working in the arcades and amusement industry figure in the official 4% labour force? How much of their money goes back into the local economy and how much is propping up farmers in the former Iron Curtain countries?
