Weymouth and Portland to see cash increase thanks to cruise ship tourists (From Dorset Echo)

Stop trying to convince everyone the billions wasted on the Olympics folly is what is behind every little success we have. The Olympics was little to this area in the long term, most of those on these ships won't even know they was here unless someone tells them

Wow this sounds positive..only thing is what will these day trippers be spending their money on... we have no shops left!

Barbados- Grenada- St. Lucia- Antigua-Los Angeles-Fort Lauderdale- New York-

Portland.

Lovely.

Bill Poster wrote:
Barbados- Grenada- St. Lucia- Antigua-Los Angeles-Fort Lauderdale- New York-

Portland.

Lovely.

Reads like the logo on Del boys 3 wheeler!

While having these cruise ships is good for some parts of the local economy, most of the passengers are taken, by coach, to places further afield. Salisbury, Bath and Stonehenge all benefit from a cash injection. Local coach companies, wholesale companies and fuel suppliers do benefit also. While welcoming foreign tourist to our shores it does seem very stupid and shortsighted of our local council to close the tourist information centre.

Presstostop wrote:
While having these cruise ships is good for some parts of the local economy, most of the passengers are taken, by coach, to places further afield. Salisbury, Bath and Stonehenge all benefit from a cash injection. Local coach companies, wholesale companies and fuel suppliers do benefit also. While welcoming foreign tourist to our shores it does seem very stupid and shortsighted of our local council to close the tourist information centre.

Presstostop

You make a valid point about the TIC but having been lucly enough to have been on several cruises the majority of ports have a TIC within the dock also a significant number of passengers do not go on organised trips but instead take advantage of a shuttle to the local town. Some cruise companies organise their own transfers but when the local town puts them on for free you see huge numbers of passengers going into the local town.

Bill Poster wrote:
Barbados- Grenada- St. Lucia- Antigua-Los Angeles-Fort Lauderdale- New York-

Portland.

Lovely.

Yes Luverly - Portland that is.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we are graced to live in such a wonderful area

terra firma wrote:

Bill Poster wrote:
Barbados- Grenada- St. Lucia- Antigua-Los Angeles-Fort Lauderdale- New York-

Portland.

Lovely.

Yes Luverly - Portland that is.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and we are graced to live in such a wonderful area

I agree , the council would do well to exploit our natural and historical resources for such people.

My neighbour drives for a local coach company and he takes many of them to Bath. He says very few go to Weymouth, although one coach out of the many going to Bath will take the tourists locally.

The passengers have no need for a TIC, they are given all the maps, info and leaflets they need before leaving the ship, and if that doesn't help them, then perhaps the tour guides that are on every coach that leaves the port will. Several hundred off each cruise choose to go into the town instead of the local excursions, again facts seem to evade most of the posters on this site!

It's all well and good these visitors going into Weymouth Town Centre but it's going further and further downhill. Hopefully the Council will recognise this and do something about it. I'm sure the visitors will love to see charity shops, mobile phone, shops and empty shops.

The town centre looks dreary at the moment and needs something done to make sure that the visiting ships want to bring their guests back year after year.

This is too good an opportunity to throw away so let's hope the council help our local traders and encourage new trade to take over the empty units.

Me thinks that 'niceonecyril' may be a local coach driver. While the passengers of visiting cruise ships may not need a TIC, other visitors from home and abroad, hotels, B and B's and local tourist attractions certainly need an information centre.

niceonecyril wrote:
The passengers have no need for a TIC, they are given all the maps, info and leaflets they need before leaving the ship, and if that doesn't help them, then perhaps the tour guides that are on every coach that leaves the port will. Several hundred off each cruise choose to go into the town instead of the local excursions, again facts seem to evade most of the posters on this site!

facts?! like the fact you keep making up random facts?

stench wrote:

niceonecyril wrote:
The passengers have no need for a TIC, they are given all the maps, info and leaflets they need before leaving the ship, and if that doesn't help them, then perhaps the tour guides that are on every coach that leaves the port will. Several hundred off each cruise choose to go into the town instead of the local excursions, again facts seem to evade most of the posters on this site!

facts?! like the fact you keep making up random facts?

Yup.
We don't know who he is.
We don't know what he does.
And we don't know where he gets his facts.

Found this schedule for 2010 online. 17 individual ships.
So as with the hotel story, this one should read "Cruise ship schedule returns to near normal levels after Olympic dip".

FULL SCHEDULE:

American Glory 6/13/2010 8:00 6/13/2010 15:00 Sun Sun
1 American Glory 6/18/2010 17:00 6/19/2010 15:00 Fri Sat State of Maine 6/20/2010 17:00 6/24/2010 8:00 Sun Thu
1 Enchantment 06/20/10 9:00 06/20/10 17:00 Sun Sun
1 American Glory 6/25/2010 17:00 6/26/2010 15:00 Fri Sat JULY Sat Sat
1 Independence MV 7/2/2010 17:00 7/3/2010 15:00 Fri Sat 1 American Glory 7/2/2010 17:00 7/3/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 Grande Caribe 7/4/2010 ?? 7/6/2010 1400 Sun Tue
1 Summit 07/06/10 8:00 07/06/10 17:00 Tue Tue
1 Independence 07/09/10 17:00 07/10/09 15:00
1 Grande Caribe 7/12/2010 8:00 7/14/2010 8:00 Mon Wed
1 Independence 07/16/10 17:00 07/16/10 15:00
1 Summit 07/20/10 8:00 07/20/10 17:00 Tue Tue
1 American Glory 7/22/2009 17:30 7/23/2009 TBD Wed Thu
1 Independence 7/23/2010 17:00 7/24/2010 15:00
1 American Glory 7/28/2010 7:00 7/29/2010 17:30 Wed Thu
1 Independence 7/30/2010 17:00 7/31/2010 15:00 Fri Sat 1 Niagara Prince 7/31/2010 ?? 8/4/2010 14:00 Sat Wed
1 AUGUST Sat Sat
1 Summit 08/03/10 8:00 08/03/10 17:00 Tue Tue
1 Independence 8/6/2010 17:00 8/7/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 Niagara Prince 8/8/2010 8:00 8/11/2010 14:00 Sun Wed 1 American Glory 8/8/2009 21:00 8/9/2010 18:00 Sat Mon
1 Grande Caribe 8/10/2010 18:00 8/11/2010 19:00 Tue Wed
1 Independence 8/13/2010 17:00 8/14/2010 15:00 Fri Sat 1 Enchantment 08/14/10 10:00 08/14/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 Niagara Prince 8/17/2010 8:00 8/20/2010 14:00 Tue Fri
1 Summit 08/17/10 8:00 08/17/10 17:00 Tue Tue
1 American Glory 8/18/2010 7:00 8/19/2010 17:30 Wed Thu
1 Independence 8/20/2010 17:00 8/21/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
Tugboat Muster 08/22/10 Sun OG MS Society 09/23/09
1 Niagara Prince 8/26/2010 8:00 8/27/2010 12:00 Thu Fri
1 Independence 8/27/2010 17:00 8/28/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 American Glory 8/29/2010 21:00 8/30/2010 18:00 Sun Mon
1 Summit 08/31/10 8:00 08/31/10 17:00 Tue Tue
SEPTEMBER
1 Independence 9/3/2010 17:00 9/4/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 Explorer of the Seas 09/04/10 9:00 09/04/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 American Glory 9/8/2010 7:00 9/9/2010 5:30 Wed Thu
1 Independence 9/10/2010 17:00 9/11/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 Enchantment 09/11/10 10:00 09/11/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 Carnival Glory 09/13/10 8:00 09/13/10 18:00 Mon Mon
1 Aurora 09/16/10 8:00 09/16/10 18:00 Thu Thu
1 Summit 09/16/10 8:00 09/16/10 18:00 Thu Thu
1 Independence 9/17/2010 17:00 9/18/2010 15:00 Fri Sat
1 Explorer of the Seas 09/18/10 9:00 09/18/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 American Glory 09/18/10 21:00 09/19/10 17:00 Sat Sun
1 Jewel of the Seas 09/19/10 7:00 09/19/10 19:00 Sun Sun
1 American Glory 9/19/2010 7:00 9/19/2010 20:00 Sun Sun
1 Carnival Glory 09/20/10 8:00 09/20/10 18:00 Mon Mon
1 Independence 9/24/2010 17:00 9/25/2010 15:00 Fri Sat 1 Enchantment 09/25/10 10:00 09/25/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 Jewel of the Seas 09/26/10 7:00 09/26/10 19:00 Sun Sun
1 Carnival Glory 09/27/10 8:00 09/27/10 18:00 Mon Mon Carnival Carnival 10/06/08
1 Summit 09/30/10 8:00 09/30/10 18:00 Thu Thu
1 Independable 9/30/2010 17:00 10/1/2010 8:00 Thu Fri
OCTOBER
1 M/V Arcadia 10/01/10 8:00 10/01/10 18:00 Fri Fri
1 Explorer of the Seas 10/02/10 9:00 10/02/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 Jewel of the Seas 10/03/10 7:00 10/03/10 19:00 Sun Sun
1 Carnival Glory 10/04/10 8:00 10/04/10 18:00 Mon Mon
1 Norwegin Spirit 10/08/10 8:00 10/08/10 18:00 Fri Fri Moran Norwegian 10/29/08
1 Enchantment 10/09/10 10:00 10/09/10 19:00 Sat Sat
1 Jewel of the Seas 10/10/10 7:00 10/10/10 19:00 Sun Sun 12
1 Silver Wisperer 10/11/10 10/11/10 Mon Mon
1 Carnival Glory 10/11/10 8:00 10/11/10 18:00 Mon Mon
1 Clelia II 10/13/10 13:00 10/13/10 22:30 Wed Wed 9.5
1 Summit 10/14/10 10/14/10 Thu Thu
1 Explorer of the Seas 10/16/10 9:00 10/16/10 19:00 Sat Sat 10
1 Jewel of the Seas 10/17/10 7:00 10/17/10 19:00 Sun Sun 12
1 Norwegin Spirit 10/22/10 8:00 10/22/10 18:00 Fri Fri Moran Norwegian 10/29/08
1 Jewel of the Seas 10/24/10 7:00 10/24/10 19:00 Sun Sun
Crystal Symphony

weymouthresident wrote:
It's all well and good these visitors going into Weymouth Town Centre but it's going further and further downhill. Hopefully the Council will recognise this and do something about it. I'm sure the visitors will love to see charity shops, mobile phone, shops and empty shops.

The town centre looks dreary at the moment and needs something done to make sure that the visiting ships want to bring their guests back year after year.

This is too good an opportunity to throw away so let's hope the council help our local traders and encourage new trade to take over the empty units.

The council didnt recognise this for the olyimpics,the town center was dreary,and miserable, they made no effort then ,so why would they bother now? just another wasted opportunity to get the town center buzzing again.

sandy. wrote:

weymouthresident wrote:
It's all well and good these visitors going into Weymouth Town Centre but it's going further and further downhill. Hopefully the Council will recognise this and do something about it. I'm sure the visitors will love to see charity shops, mobile phone, shops and empty shops.

The town centre looks dreary at the moment and needs something done to make sure that the visiting ships want to bring their guests back year after year.

This is too good an opportunity to throw away so let's hope the council help our local traders and encourage new trade to take over the empty units.

The council didnt recognise this for the olyimpics,the town center was dreary,and miserable, they made no effort then ,so why would they bother now? just another wasted opportunity to get the town center buzzing again.

I am sure the council are well aware that we are deep in a recession!

Its a pity they didnt spend the money on the brown route to Portland instead of the traffic light scheme.This would have cleared up a lot of the traffic problems bypassing the town centre.Perhaps Condor could have been relocated as well as bringing more of these ships to Portland, after all shipping can easily accessed into the harbour as it is unaffected by tides as is some harbours With a little thought this could have been an opportunity for a nice little port .