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LadyEllen -> RE: Good for tourism ? (3/15/2010 10:33:52 AM)
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Your problem A, is one I can infer from your OP - low employment other than during tourist season and an economy reliant on it. Youre also in an area of the country with a low native population density, which still has to be serviced in its entirety by the councils, water and other utilities.
Consequently, in dividing up the costs of providing clean running water (for instance) throughout the regiom, you are going to have a higher charge per person than somewhere like here, with a higher population density. And since the tourist season is half the year only but you want water (et al) all year round, there are charges, all year round.
However, you are wrong if you believe that the tourists dont pay a contribution - whether it is a fair one or not is another argument. Everywhere the tourists stay, including caravan parks, has to pay substantially higher charges than a household should and these extra charges find their way into the fees paid. My parents' caravan in north Wales (where one could drink water coming off the mountain a half mile away) has a £1000-00 per annum charge for water service supply, plus other charges for electric, TV and so on - this finds its way into what my parents charge others who want to use the caravan, or my parents have to pay it themselves.
Are tourists a major pain in the ass? Absolutely, and I empathise as we're overrun with 0121s, 0384s and 0902s every summer too, with the only consolation being that theyre directed one way round the ring road, so we natives can go the other way to avoid the miles of jams. But they also generate employment - most of it seasonal and taken by youngsters and students admittedly, but around a quarter is full time - wild animals need feeding all year round, as steam engines, forests, fisheries and so on need similar year round attention. Given the industrial destruction and decline here, we need them grockles, however annoying they are.
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