Our hoteliers face a bleak time with the prospect of the worst season ever.
I know hoteliers and camp site owners and confirm the reports.
My grandparents were hoteliers and I remember the relentless long hours put in without a break through the summer season.
It must be galling to know that national businesses are making great profits from deals whereby tickets are held back from the public to be bundled up in expensive deals.
How different if our local businesses were similarly blessed by the Olympic authorities.
The public have paid for the Olympics to the tune of £11billion.
Yet private firms take the profits and get the best seats.
Several corporate sponsors adopt the cloak of sport to hide the production of unhealthy food and drinks and remove benefit entitlements to the disabled yet want to be linked to the paralympics.
The Olympics mirror economics where the public sector pays and the private sector profits. Good luck to our sailors and our hoteliers in the coming months.
Jon Orrell Coldharbour Chickerell
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