cissolt Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 9 minutes ago, Banker said: Great day for trip on rib to calf😀 A lovely day for it! I struggle to see the value in cruise ships visiting, the spend that the government claims is well off the mark. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asitis Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 54 minutes ago, The Phantom said: My Taxi driver this morning was quite excited by the first boat in 2 years as he also has a coach and taking them out on a RIB to the Calf of Man for some bird spotting. Make the most of our wildlife eh ! who would have thought it ? Fed up of identifying niche markets to these morons in tourism ! They chant in Gregorian fashion "motorcycles" "Horse trams" "Steam Trains" Apart from that they haven't a fxxxxxg clue ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, cissolt said: A lovely day for it! I struggle to see the value in cruise ships visiting, the spend that the government claims is well off the mark. Well it’s money for the coaches, heritage sites & obviously the RIB operators today & good publicity hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Phantom Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 26 minutes ago, asitis said: Make the most of our wildlife eh ! who would have thought it ? Fed up of identifying niche markets to these morons in tourism ! They chant in Gregorian fashion "motorcycles" "Horse trams" "Steam Trains" Apart from that they haven't a fxxxxxg clue ! From what the Taxi Driver said, it seemed that he had arranged the RIB bird spotting trip. No govt/tourism involvement. Apparently he had a chat with the group to put together a bespoke itinerary. They said they were Twitchers, so he made arrangements for a RIB trip to the calf. Good on him frankly. He seemed genuinely keen to put on a good show. 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hissingsid Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 By the time the Twitchers and the Beach Buddy cleaning lot are taken out of the equation there won’t be many left to spend ,spend , spend in the shops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cissolt Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Banker said: Well it’s money for the coaches, heritage sites & obviously the RIB operators today & good publicity hopefully The largest income seemed to be paid directly to government, not local shop spending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annoymouse Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 3 hours ago, cissolt said: A lovely day for it! I struggle to see the value in cruise ships visiting, the spend that the government claims is well off the mark. Maybe on their first visit, but if they like it they’ll perhaps have a second visit or tell their friends/family and hopefully they’ll come over for a skeet too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesypeas Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 1 hour ago, cissolt said: The largest income seemed to be paid directly to government, not local shop spending. Miserable much ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forestboy Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 4 hours ago, Banker said: Great day for trip on rib to calf😀 Saw a rib from the Sound Cafe earlier. very busy down there including an English coach load. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happier diner Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 I thought it was just a boat full of horse tram points gap enthusiasts The horse tram points debating society 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cissolt Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 5 hours ago, cheesypeas said: Miserable much ? My issue is that it's a job retention scheme for the tourism department. We should be looking for big spending tourists like golfers, cyclists, car clubs. Michael leather was a big cruise ship advocate.....60k income to government from 12 cruise ships. So that pays half the salary of the director of tourism? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, cissolt said: My issue is that it's a job retention scheme for the tourism department. We should be looking for big spending tourists like golfers, cyclists, car clubs. Michael leather was a big cruise ship advocate.....60k income to government from 12 cruise ships. So that pays half the salary of the director of tourism? To be fair lots of cyclists do come here for various events & loads of car clubs were over last year with lots staying at Comis as the owner is a member of some. Not sure if DFE had anything to do with attracting them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Johnson Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 (edited) If you read the document Max linked to at the start of this thread it is full of crap Things like having Bothys and glamping pods around the island and 500 more hotel beds that need to be magicked out of thin air They do state that banks are not willing to lend against such builds, hotels and glamping but hey ho its star trek enterprise so lets ignore the fact that no one can finance their wishes for a 1000 more bed spaces. Answers on a postcard to Alf at gov.im as to why banks wont lend for this type of development on the island?????? They also state that one of the most important things of this target of half a million visitors is that..... THE DEPT FOR ENTERPRISE IS FULLY FUNDED TO ALLOW THEM TO OVERSEE THIS EXPANSION OF THE ISLAND TOIURIST SCTOR. AND.... Allow them to train private business owners in the tourist sector how to run their own businesses .................FFS No shit Sherlock, I wonder why? Edited April 20, 2022 by Boris Johnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itsmeee Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 What are these 500,000 people going to do when they come to the Isle of Man though? Especially if the weather is bad. There’s nothing much to do in poor weather and all the stuff you can do, can be done in a weekend, max. I think the people who remember the island’s heyday, when there were loads of attractions, forget that those things have all gone. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bees Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 There is a new big boat in the bay. What is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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