publican1990
Well-Known Member
Sorry, I wasn't aware you knew what I enjoyed doing with my spare time. And I wasn't aware you spoke for hundreds of thousands of potential visitors to this city!
It's not angry at all, it is just pointing out that it clearly is a bias because it's here.
If it was Leicester going on about a spoken word festival and an arts event based on a canal I am pretty sure you wouldn't be saying you would really love to visit it.
It's the reality of it.
Sorry, I wasn't aware you knew what I enjoyed doing with my spare time. And I wasn't aware you spoke for hundreds of thousands of potential visitors to this city!
I hardly think hundreds of thousands will be visiting the city. I’ve visited it once in 3 years
It's not angry at all, it is just pointing out that it clearly is a bias because it's here.
If it was Leicester going on about a spoken word festival and an arts event based on a canal I am pretty sure you wouldn't be saying you would really love to visit it.
It's the reality of it.
This may come as a shock but some of us do attend events in other cities, sometimes we're prompted to do so based on said events being publicised in the media.
Sorry, I wasn't aware you knew what I enjoyed doing with my spare time. And I wasn't aware you spoke for hundreds of thousands of potential visitors to this city!
Oh yeh of course.
I was just talking about the sheer bias of how appealing the things in that article were.
Especially when you consider a decent away following for a Championship game will bring in more people in one game than most of those events listed combined.
Hope they enjoy Electric Wharf or a canal music event then. Best book the day off work to avoid the gridlock.
'The BBC reported that a report by University of Hull in March 2018 found Hull's status as the UK City of Culture attracted more than five million people, £220 million of investment and 800 new jobs.'
5 million people visited Hull, you don't think we have the same pulling power as Hull? We're far better connected transport wise for a start. So hundreds of thousands was actually a conservative estimate.
5 million visited Hull in one in 12 of the adult population of the whole of the U.K.
did you visit it? Who did on here? Anyone?
I did, they hosted the British Chess Championships as part of the events
Pretty sure that isn't 5m plus different visitors to Hull from outside.You must have been joined by another 35,000 Coventrians
Pretty sure that isn't 5m plus different visitors to Hull from outside.
I'd hazard a guess there's some numbers spin going on.
Surely not I’m sure 1 in 12 rushed to the humber
Over half of the 5.3m were from Hull apparently.Did it say that those people constituted visitors just from the UK? What about visitors from abroad? The UK tourism industry is worth over a hundred billion. We attract people from all across the world. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that foreign tourists made up a portion of that number. Especially as Hull is less than an hour from one of England's biggest hotspots York. What would be the value in massaging the figures? I don't get it. Let's just say for arguments sake, that its 5 million 'visits' instead of 5 million visitors, that's still going to be 5 million visits where people spend money locally.
I don't like rugby or reality tv, so i just give them a wide berth because lots of people do enjoy them. Some of the city of culture stuff doesn't appeal to me, but it does appeal to other people, and if it brings money and jobs to the city then I don't see what the issue is.
You must have been joined by another 35,000 Coventrians
Over half of the 5.3m were from Hull apparently.
It's a spun statistic.
Yeah just seen that, fair pointI still hope the whole thing is a big success regardless.
Dont get me wrong, I hope there are things that are more appealing so I can take my daughter.
Not sure she would want to sit and watch the gates open and close at Electric Wharf for the day.
She did used to like playing chess to be fairOur youth chess academy will have a number of things going on if she wants to learn something new
She did used to like playing chess to be fair
Completely disagree with this.
Keith and Sharon if they are always going to stay local will stay local. However, there is a large swathe of people who don’t go into Cov but happily go to Kenilworth, Leamington etc for a meal and a few drinks.
What we need to do is entice these people back. Get people going into town again to have a night out without the perception that it is for the ‘young uns’ or it is going to ‘kick off’ based on a perception of twenty odd years ago.
There is a stigma about the city and particularly the city centre that only we can change.
Anyway, fuck it I know I’m biased and it certainly isn’t the utopia that perhaps comes across in my posts but I honestly believe that the city is at a tipping point and I just hope we take advantage of it.
One place that has potential (with a bit of vision) is the old IKEA. I know the idea of an art gallery has been mooted. Personally I reckon a multi level entertainment centre of sorts would help attract loads of people, families included, to the centre. You could have indoor mini golf, a bowling alley, a space for pool tables, table tennis, darts. An escape room set up. You could have a food hall for local vendors, get some of the local breweries involved. You could have an area for live music to showcase local talent. It's pretty much equidistant between pool meadow and the train station, there's already plenty of parking nearby. There's also the cinema next door so people could make a day of visiting. Make Cov a destination for people from Warwickshire rather than the other way around.
The bridge to the canal basin needs blowing up too. Open that area up, offer incentives for businesses to open up there, an outdoor seating area at the canal basin would be a brilliant spot in the summer months for drinks. The Tin is a brilliant little venue, if it were in any other city it would be raved about but it seems to fall under the radar in Cov. A totally unique venue in the old coal vaults. Playwrights cafe has opened up there, that's a lovely little spot to grab a coffee and watch the world go by.
A lot of the time it seems Cov's issues are just piss poor marketing and promotion of itself, combined with short sighted planning.
Go Karting and Laser Quest
AT THE SAME TIME
AT THE SAME TIME
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