Tourist beds in Seaton
For all those of you who have been somewhat confused about PR Dogs assertion at the Winston's meeting, which I attended as an observer, that there are 2,200 tourist beds in Seaton and that holiday park accommodation is reducing, I think I can throw some light on this (though no doubt PR Dogs will tell me by comment here if I am wrong!).
I think they got their figures from the Devon County Council Tourism Report "Capacity of Tourist Accommodation In Resorts" of 2006. In this report, only three towns in East Devon are named: Exmouth, Sidmouth and Seaton. We therefore have to assume that the figures below for "Seaton" include Branscombe, Beer, Axmouth, Colyford and Colyton (and quite possibly other villages around Seaton, possibly even Axminster and beyond - this is not made clear in the report). By the way, East Devon is shown as having over 30,000 tourist beds in total.
Of the Seaton AREA (whatever that is):
220 serviced accommodation, average spend per night £56.59
40 flats and houses, average spend per night £33.37
970 holiday park units (includes static caravans and chalets) average spend £33.30 per night
1,000 touring pitches (touring caravans, , motor caravans, tents and trailer tents) average spend £20.78 per night
However, regarding PR Dogs assertion that the holiday park component is falling, if they used this document, again there is some confusion, as tables 28 and 29 in the report show that 33% of holiday parks report stable visitor numbers and 63% report increased numbers on the previous year.
PR Dogs: we do need citations for statistics, please.
posted by Fighting for East Devon's future @ 11:59 am
6 Comments:
the figure quoted by pr dogs was also int heir press release here http://www.prdogs.com/press_releases.aspx
anon551
I read that too, what is unclear is whether all these beds are seasonal as the camp is open 51/52 weeks a year.
If they were operating at a loss, why do that?
Sandra
Perhaps you could provide the citation for the SU4S claim that the Lyme Bay Holiday Village represents 90 per cent of the town's holiday beds?
In response to sara the blogger, while it is not for us to comment on Hollybush commercial decisions, what we can say is that holiday accomodation providers such as hotels open with low occupancy and often at a loss in low seasons because they want to retain their staff.
In response to prdogs response to sara the blogger, while it is not for me to comment on Hollybush commercial decisions, what I can say is that holiday accomodation providers such as hotels open with high occupancy and often making mountains of cash in high seasons because that more than compensates for the odd few weeks of the year where they may have less visitors.
(conclusion = you can spin the response to suit your own needs)
Holybush were not operating at a loss - read the press releases carefully as they don't actually lie, they just mislead. They do that by quoting information that doesn't apply to Holybush but to tourist accommodation elsewhere or to holiday camps generally. They quote that information because they cannot truthfully say Holybush made a loss. However they can quote information that is true but not relevant, knowing it will mislead many people.
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