Tourism week marked in Colchester by guided tour of town

2:02pm Friday 15th March 2013 in News

A GUIDED tour of Colchester on Saturday will mark English Tourism Week 2013.

The Visit Colchester Information Centre is offering a guided walking tour from the Queen Street centre from 11am. Proceeds will be donated to charity.

On Saturday afternoon, Wilkin & Sons of Tiptree will provide scones, jam and cream at the centre.

Tourism contributed £239.7 million to the economy of Colchester in 2011 while more than 5,500 people are employed in tourism related roles.

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RetiredVal says...
2:31pm Fri 15 Mar 13

No doubt the tourists will be wowed by the new bus station, High Street full of 'vibrant' shops, road repairs and closure notices everywhere and if it is late enough in the day , the drunks wandering around on the pavements and roads. They must see the Red Lion Hotel before the car ban forces that to close as well, after several hundred years of it being there. I loved this once beautiful town when we came here in 1970, now it is a disaster area.

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Bert_Stimpson says...
2:56pm Fri 15 Mar 13

Not forgetting the £28m firsts*ite money pit, the crumbling Roman walls, Tymperleys (or are the gates still locked?), the beautiful art deco cinema (hmm, perhaps not), the well cared for Victorian water tower (maybe not), SlackerSpace (wherever that has been shunted to now) and the 'arts elite' in their natural habitat at 15 Queen Street (handed over at mates rates), the abandoned bus station wasteland, plus the quaint Dutch Quarter (before it is crawling with traffic). What have I missed?

Positives: Castle Park and the Castle itself are OK. St. Botolphs Priory is worth a look.

Enjoy the tour...!

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TheCaptain says...
3:38pm Fri 15 Mar 13

It will also include the zoo

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Bert_Stimpson says...
4:21pm Fri 15 Mar 13

'...more than 5,500 people are employed in tourism related roles .'

Hmmm, seems a lot. I wonder what actually counts as a 'tourism related role'.

That must have come from the same research that evaluated the size of the 'creative' industries and how many 'companies' firsts*ite had helped.

'There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.'

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d m weston says...
9:46pm Fri 15 Mar 13

i hope that the tour booklets point out when it is not a good idea to travel on roads in and around town, because we would'nt want them to get stuck in traffic would we,

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sandgronun64 says...
11:46pm Sat 16 Mar 13

Bert_Stimpson wrote:
'...more than 5,500 people are employed in tourism related roles .'

Hmmm, seems a lot. I wonder what actually counts as a 'tourism related role'.

That must have come from the same research that evaluated the size of the 'creative' industries and how many 'companies' firsts*ite had helped.

'There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.'
I love it Bert.

Please keep commenting (even if they decide to 'censor' us again!).

And remember that 74.84% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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