We're all going on a summer holiday....

Biscuitman · 10-02-2005, 12:01 PM

The tourism figures for last year were released yesterday.

The figures for those coming to the UK were interesting.

They included 1,050,000 'tourists' who visited Britain from the new accession states in the last 8 months.

Are we meant to believe that there was an unsatisfied urge to visit Britain from these countries that was only realised when they joined the EU?

There are no figures for how long these tourists stayed here or indeed if they are still here, but 9% - 90,000 stated on entry that they intended to stay here for more than three months.... 13 weeks holidays!!!???

I thought employment conditions over there were poor, yet these people obviously have very generous employers to allow them over three months holiday!!!

As Jim Royale would say...my a**e!!!

algypug · 10-02-2005, 06:29 PM

Have you got a link for this ?

Biscuitman · 10-02-2005, 07:04 PM

I picked it up on teletext last night, its an extract from the Nat Stats office report.

Havent been able to find anything on the BBc site but Nat stats have breakdowns for each month on:-

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS...asp?vlnk=12222

I havent looked at the individual reports mind

algypug · 11-02-2005, 09:59 AM

thanks

10-02-2005, 12:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
Biscuitman Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Reading Posts: 3,486	We're all going on a summer holiday.... The tourism figures for last year were released yesterday. The figures for those coming to the UK were interesting. They included 1,050,000 'tourists' who visited Britain from the new accession states in the last 8 months. Are we meant to believe that there was an unsatisfied urge to visit Britain from these countries that was only realised when they joined the EU? There are no figures for how long these tourists stayed here or indeed if they are still here, but 9% - 90,000 stated on entry that they intended to stay here for more than three months.... 13 weeks holidays!!!??? I thought employment conditions over there were poor, yet these people obviously have very generous employers to allow them over three months holiday!!! As Jim Royale would say...my a**e!!! __________________ IF THE EU WAS THE ANSWER, IT MUST HAVE BEEN A STUPID QUESTION!

10-02-2005, 07:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
Biscuitman Uber Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Reading Posts: 3,486	I picked it up on teletext last night, its an extract from the Nat Stats office report. Havent been able to find anything on the BBc site but Nat stats have breakdowns for each month on:- http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBAS...asp?vlnk=12222 I havent looked at the individual reports mind __________________ IF THE EU WAS THE ANSWER, IT MUST HAVE BEEN A STUPID QUESTION!

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10-02-2005, 06:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
algypug Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 254	Have you got a link for this ?

11-02-2005, 09:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
algypug Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 254	thanks