triskelion Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 http://www.visitisleofman.com/trade/strategy.xml http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Isle-of-Man...iefs.3815698.jp WHAT WE NEED TO ACHIEVE:1. World class, high quality products and services. 2. Positive first and lasting impressions and visitors who feel cared for every step of the way. 3. A match between visitor experience and visitor expectation. 4. A more skilled and knowledgeable tourism workforce. 5. Profitable, year round products and services. 6. A positive image of the Isle of Man, bolstered by a recognised Manx Quality Assurance Scheme. 7. 2020 accommodation model – 4/5* led, by location. Its a lot of 'What we need' and 'what we need to do' with very little actual 'we are going to do such and such' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 They can set as many targets as they want but you simply cannot get away from the fact that (as much as I love the place) the Isle of Man is not a very exciting prospect in the depths of winter when its pissing down and blowing a hoolie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 The same for the lakes and other places where people go yomping in the hills, the difference is they have a great choice of routes and packages in the UK, not so much for the Island. Thats only looking at one particular type of visitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Wow a great list of realtively unquantifiable targets!!! Where's the super casinos? Sex/drug tourism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 drug tourism? We've got more than enough smacked up wasters as it is, why import more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Good plan - can it be a combined hotel / super casino so the rest of us don't have to see them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 WHAT WE NEED TO ACHIEVE:2. Positive first and lasting impressions and visitors who feel cared for every step of the way. How would the Steam Packet fit in to this vision? 3. A match between visitor experience and visitor expectation. thats easy, ensure they expect little and a match that. 5. Profitable, year round products and services. if the Victorians didn't manage this when tourism was booming we've no chance. 7. 2020 accommodation model – 4/5* led, by location. better stop knocking down hotels and building skanky appartment blocks, and do ramblers and bikers in the main want 4/5* accomodation? sounds to me like hes talking about business visitors more than actual tourists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 drug tourism? We've got more than enough smacked up wasters as it is, why import more? because we can export them again after they have spent themselves dry in our super-casino! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 Good plan - can it be a combined hotel / super casino so the rest of us don't have to see them? Yep a huge hotel/casino/smoking den....with no windows or clocks....limited exits that are hard to find. Its the future I tell thee... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebees Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 7. 4/5* led....In 2020 very few will have enough disposable income to stay in these types of places, this man is an idiot and clearly has no idea what is going on around him, not unlike the majority of politicians. As for MQAS - Oh perlease more crappy acronyms that mean nothing and bits of paper that make people feel important, who is taken in by Quality assurance? I do not need a bit of paper to tell me I am brilliant, why do other people/industries feel the need for them? (No praise like self praise) We need to start being a bargain holiday place, with lots of great free things to do. Forget trying to compete with other places, just be ourselves and hope people want to come and see what we have to offer. Sell the good things, like glens, parks, cycle paths, the DAFF have lovely walk brouchures, there's the steam/electric trains, the Laxey Wheels, the wild life park and all the other stuff the 80K people who live here find to do with their spare time. Its not that grim here is it? Sell the point that you dont have to wait hours to get through customs to get here. Theres loads of good points to sell the Isle Of Man to tourists on, but they are missed by those that do have their heads in the clouds/up their own arses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Take Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 So much for SMART -specific -measurable -achievable -realistic -timescale included Yes! I've finally used something off the various business management courses I've been on (dozed through) over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 WHAT WE NEED TO ACHIEVE:1. World class, high quality products and services. 2. Positive first and lasting impressions and visitors who feel cared for every step of the way. 3. A match between visitor experience and visitor expectation. 4. A more skilled and knowledgeable tourism workforce. 5. Profitable, year round products and services. 6. A positive image of the Isle of Man, bolstered by a recognised Manx Quality Assurance Scheme. 7. 2020 accommodation model – 4/5* led, by location. Freedom to flounder. It'll take at least a >£500m budget to achieve such things...because basically here, there is currently nothing to do and all day to do it. I still say stick to the TT associated knitting and build an F1 circuit - and the rest will follow, including associated businesses and numerous customers for the finance and other sectors. Whatever we do here it will be from March to September, and we have to face up to the fact that people generally won't, and never have, come here during the winter, perhaps except for conferences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 It is good to see that going ahead we are looking to tourism, when is he going to look at leisure? What will bring people over if not some activities! I don't think he has any vision........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triskelion Posted February 26, 2008 Author Share Posted February 26, 2008 It'll take at least a >£500m budget to achieve such things...because basically here, there is currently f**k all to do and all day to do it Do you live on Chicken Rock? There's loads to do on the Island. thebees: The insufficient amount of 4/5* accomodation was always a big complaint of businesses. If we people want cheap and tacky holidays they aren't going to come to the Isle of Man and go round the Wildlife Park. I also have no idea what you are talking about when you say people in 2020 won't have enough disposable income to stay in hotels. A lot of general negativity here. Of course, its much easier to say politicans do nothing useful whilst contributing nothing to the tourism debate yourselves than would be to, say, respond to the consultation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted February 26, 2008 Share Posted February 26, 2008 It'll take at least a >£500m budget to achieve such things...because basically here, there is currently f**k all to do and all day to do it Do you live on Chicken Rock? There's loads to do on the Island. Fraggle Rock actually. Go on then - list all the things for tourists to do that they can't do at home in the UK and would want to spend nearly £1000 getting/staying here for a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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