The news that the North East is getting a big influx of tourists is a Wake-up Call to Ulverston.
They are benefiting from overseas visitors thanks to the weak pound and a steady effort in promoting their area over the last five years.
By contrast our Town Council and Jayne Kendall have really let us down with a poor web site from a tourism point of view.
Thanks to Jayne we have great events here but we are sadly lacking in the skill to promote them over the Internet.
The Town Council's web site was a great disappointment from a tourism point of view, though good at informing us about the workings of the council itself.
GoUlverston, though an excellent service for local people, informing about businesses in the town, is not primarily aimed at promoting Ulverston abroad.The Town is really missing out and the empty shops reflect this.
The sad state of our streets does little to help, with the local Councillors not standing up to the County to get better service.
Ralph Spours, chairman of the Ulverston Traders Association, is out of touch, making a statement just a week ago that:
“Ulverston has become a thriving little town with the small shops and businesses."
He leads a divided group of shopkeepers.
The town is sadly showing signs of dying on its feet.
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6 comments:
One way of boosting tourism for Ulverston would be to encourage local shops and other businesses to open on a Sunday. At the moment, only pubs are open. Drinking and eating are all very well, but these two activities alone will not draw people in. The anachronistic approach to business in the town is holding it back. Is it any wonder that, on a Sunday, the main day of the week for tourism related activity, people gravitate to the Lake District towns, e.g Keswick, Ambleside, or Bowness? In these places, all the shops are open, and the well promoted, well signposted tourist attractions do a roaring trade. On a Sunday, Ulverston is like a ghost town.
You've got a point Sloane and when Tesco gets here it might encourage others to open on Sunday and make Ulverston into a bit of a destination. However ,if I was a shopkeeper I doubt if I would want to open on a grey,rainlashed Sunday in ye olde quirky marketless town. And where will the shop assistants get their pies on a Sunday ? I mean it's obligatory when entering a shop for the assistant to be swilling tea and munching on a pie .Ye olde Coop opens on a Sunday but doesn't bother to stock up.This is Ulverston .
I'm not surprised that the deli shop shut down,i've never ever seen a customer in the shop
Face it the town is dead and a tesco and a stan statue will not help matters. No job centre in the one of the worst times in my life for jobs and only 6 jobs on the job centre website advertised in ulverston. My advice is move to Lancaster or Manchester.
Talking of no job centre in ulverston now i was talking to a mate of mine who's started to sign on.He was telling me every 2 weeks he has to travel to barrow to sign on now because there's no job centre in ulverston,he doesn't even get the travel costs refunded which costs about a fiver return.Now how bad is that for all the people who need to go to barrow and sign on,only one winner here and thats stagecoach
Having to pay to travel to Barrow to sign on sounds tough.
I'll check this out and post a reply here.
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