Re: Why is tourism exempt?

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:40:57 -0700, Rob G <robkgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 6 Jun, 08:58, amacmil...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:36:44 +0100, Dave Fawthrop

<inva...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:32:56 +0100, amacmil...@xxxxxxx wrote:

|!Why is tourism "exempt" from issues such as limiting car and aeroplane
|!use?
|!
|!Government makes all sorts of noises about us using our cars less for
|!commuting etc but at the same time is promoting tourism from all over
|!the world.
|!
|!And most walkers use cars to get to their walking destinations.

On one day a week/month, not 5 days a week.

But in many cases much longer distances are involved.

A return trip to Glencoe from Glasgow at the week-end could very
easily be much more than five days commuting from the suburbs to the
city centre.



|!Bit of a fraud, isn't it?

Primary School maths would help you here.

I think you've forgotten yours :-)

So why should tourism be "exempt" from criticism, in your view?

Angus Macmillanwww.roots-of-blood.org.ukwww.killhunting.orgwww.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

And just how many cars commute back and forth between Edinburgh and
Glasgow each day? There has to be some reason why the M8 is always so
busy morning and evening. The number of cars going to mountain areas
each weekend is a smidgen of the number on that road daily. And
furthermore each 'mountian' car will contain 3 or 4 persons, whereas
those on the daily commute rarely contain more than the driver.

I think if you did your research properly before asking others to do
it for you, you will learn that tourism in the Highlands is now the
only effective and universal industry there. If it wasn't encouraged
in one way or another, then the area would be become seriously
impoverished and would require even greater support from central
government than the anything that comes from 'exemptions'.

God - why do we have to feed this idiotic troll - his ignorance knows
no bounds.


So it's all right to travel if it supports the tourist industry but
otherwise we should leave our cars at home :-((

And I notice no-one mentions overseas visitors being encouraged.

When will walkers be able to walk on water?


Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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