Outrageous statements that shook the Town Council

This is one of them:

"Thank you to the six councillors that attended the meeting to review tourism where the need for a good web site was discussed however I sincerely believe that:

The absence over the past four years of the Town Council's concern for a good web site to appeal to the town's tourists has contributed to the closing of shops in the town.

We need a group of councillors to be formed to keep tourism under constant review"

I stand by this comment which seemed to shock our Mayor.

Considered logically all will agree.

Towns with a good web site for tourists will these days attract more tourists.

The Town's web site at ulverston.net has been a dismal failure.

The Town Council's web site does a good job of promoting the councillors and their business but attracting tourists, unlike other Town Councils, is not part of its remit.

Thus fewer tourists have been drawn here that would have come, had been a good web site for them.

Fewer tourists - less business for the shops.

Less business - more shops that close.

One councillor - Colin Williams has recently addressed the problem - at least he recognises it.

However the result was poor  as he acknowledged( see discussion on this topic).

Now completely independently of the council a private individual is producing a web site for tourists that is something that is already special and will get better as more and more is added to it and others chip in to help. Let's hope it makes a real impact next season.

Have a look at www.visitulverston.com

If you like it, refer to it on your web site or blog so that it sails to the top of a Google search for "Ulverston" where you may think it deserves to be.

The more references to it, the higher it will rise in the Google ratings.