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  1. Published on: 13/07/2019 07:01 AMReported by: roving-eye
    The number of visitors heading to the resort is up by 1.5% on the previous year with a 6.5% increase on money spent in the town.




    These findings are contained in the latest independent research for 2018 commissioned by the Visitor Economy Team at Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).


    Latest figures show Liverpool City Region’s Visitor Economy is now worth over £4.9bn, and last year welcomed 67.3m visitors to the region and supports over 57,000 jobs.




    Headline figures for Southport show:

    • Visitor Numbers – 9.2 million – 1.5% Increase
    • Staying visitors – 772,000 – 2.1% Increase
    • Economic Impact – £590 million – 6.5% increase
    • Total Employment 6,967 – 3.1% Increase

    Headline city region-wide figures show:



    • Visitor numbers – 67.3 million – 5% increase
    • Staying visitors 5.5 million – 3.8% increase
    • Total Employment – 57,000 – 6.7% increase



    These figures are published by the STEAM (Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity) model, which is used throughout the UK tourism industry to measure economic impact of the visitor economy, and International Passenger Survey. The results are calculated using a range of tourism inputs including hotel occupancy, transport figures, attractions attendance figures and event figures.
    Cllr Ian Maher, Labour Leader at Sefton Council, said: “There is a real ‘wow’ factor to these figures that have just been published and for all the right reasons.


    “We all know how important tourism is to Southport, Sefton and the wider city region and these figures confirm how important we all are as a destination to millions of tourists every year.


    “It clearly shows that tourism across Sefton continues to rise and the borough really is open for all businesses.


    “Visitors regularly come from all over the UK and beyond to Sefton for our superb attractions, our busy and varied events programme, wonderful hotels, superb shops and entertaining nightlife and long may this continue.”
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  3. salus.populi says:13/07/2019 09:51 AM
    25000 visitors per day spending £1.6 million per day (£64 each). Pull the other one.

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  5. abbeyroad says:13/07/2019 04:08 PM
    London is consistently among the top 3 cities for attracting visitors in the world and last year the figure was just under 20 million. Southport, meanwhile, attracts almost half that number.

    Yeah right.

  6. hja says:13/07/2019 06:09 PM
    Why and what on Earth for?
    Quote Originally Posted by roving-eye View Post
    The number of visitors heading to the resort is up by 1.5% on the previous year with a 6.5% increase on money spent in the town.




    These findings are contained in the latest independent research for 2018 commissioned by the Visitor Economy Team at Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP).


    Latest figures show Liverpool City Region’s Visitor Economy is now worth over £4.9bn, and last year welcomed 67.3m visitors to the region and supports over 57,000 jobs.




    Headline figures for Southport show:

    • Visitor Numbers – 9.2 million – 1.5% Increase
    • Staying visitors – 772,000 – 2.1% Increase
    • Economic Impact – £590 million – 6.5% increase
    • Total Employment 6,967 – 3.1% Increase

    Headline city region-wide figures show:



    • Visitor numbers – 67.3 million – 5% increase
    • Staying visitors 5.5 million – 3.8% increase
    • Total Employment – 57,000 – 6.7% increase



    These figures are published by the STEAM (Scarborough Tourism Economic Activity) model, which is used throughout the UK tourism industry to measure economic impact of the visitor economy, and International Passenger Survey. The results are calculated using a range of tourism inputs including hotel occupancy, transport figures, attractions attendance figures and event figures.
    Cllr Ian Maher, Labour Leader at Sefton Council, said: “There is a real ‘wow’ factor to these figures that have just been published and for all the right reasons.


    “We all know how important tourism is to Southport, Sefton and the wider city region and these figures confirm how important we all are as a destination to millions of tourists every year.


    “It clearly shows that tourism across Sefton continues to rise and the borough really is open for all businesses.


    “Visitors regularly come from all over the UK and beyond to Sefton for our superb attractions, our busy and varied events programme, wonderful hotels, superb shops and entertaining nightlife and long may this continue.”
    Why and what on Earth for?

  7. silver-bullet says:13/07/2019 10:15 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by salus.populi View Post
    25000 visitors per day spending £1.6 million per day (£64 each). Pull the other one.
    Every day of my life I am in Southport town Centre- working!
    I must have missed something because I see less people through
    Our shops windows than ever before!
    I for one do not believe these figures based on what I witness with my
    Own eyes!
    It totally contradicts the comments of many shop keepers I speak to
    Who often say ' haven't had anyone in today yet'
    It contradicts also the fact that shops are closing down,
    Because they're not getting the customers in spending money!
    Empty parking bays, empty shops, quiet roads...does it really look like
    We're up in visitor numbers?
    People turning up on mass to see the fireworks at night, doesn't really
    Make any contribution to most shops- they're closed!
    The Golf Open didn't help... although there were coach loads of people,
    They didn't come spending money in the town- it was a closed camp,
    They made their purchases, ate, drank and spent their money inside the Golf area
    So, although there was footfall of a fashion, it was of no benefit to most shopkeepers in the
    Town Centre.

    I believe what I see and not what they want me to!

  8. hja says:14/07/2019 08:09 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by silver-bullet View Post
    Every day of my life I am in Southport town Centre- working!
    I must have missed something because I see less people through
    Our shops windows than ever before!
    I for one do not believe these figures based on what I witness with my
    Own eyes!
    It totally contradicts the comments of many shop keepers I speak to
    Who often say ' haven't had anyone in today yet'
    It contradicts also the fact that shops are closing down,
    Because they're not getting the customers in spending money!
    Empty parking bays, empty shops, quiet roads...does it really look like
    We're up in visitor numbers?
    People turning up on mass to see the fireworks at night, doesn't really
    Make any contribution to most shops- they're closed!
    The Golf Open didn't help... although there were coach loads of people,
    They didn't come spending money in the town- it was a closed camp,
    They made their purchases, ate, drank and spent their money inside the Golf area
    So, although there was footfall of a fashion, it was of no benefit to most shopkeepers in the
    Town Centre.

    I believe what I see and not what they want me to!
    Spot on.

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