"HOLIDAY parks and hotels are preparing for a record-breaking summer as tourists boycott foreign breaks in favour of UK destinations", according to the Daily Post.
As usual, Team LDSTS is bustling about the countryside, distributing the latest leaflets and brochures to venues across the region. New promotional publications arrive every day from all corners of our service area, and we are frantically delivering the latest issue of What's On in Chester & Cheshire over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Where has January gone? Soon it will be 'silly season' (the frenzied run up to Easter) for LDS Tourism Services and we will be dashing from one TIP to another, distributing all the last minute brochures and leaflets.
No sooner had we celebrated our first white Christmas for many years and seen in 2010 with a dusting of more fluffy stuff, than winter struck the region with a frightful vengeance. Severe weather warnings were issued by the Met Office and it started to snow, and snow, and snow…
We can finally reveal that our long awaited "brand new service" has been launched for the autumn/winter of 2009/10: LDS Tourism is now offering to build effective social media marketing campaigns for existing clients and other businesses.
Although small firms employ over fifty-eight per cent of the private sector workforce and contribute more than 50% of the UK turnover, the expansion of large national and international companies into every corner of British industry is heavily responsible for the demise of local trade.
LDS Tourism Services are extremely excited about 2010 - not least because they are now working with several new partner companies in other parts of the UK.
As 2012 draws to a close, we take a positive look back at the highs of a tourism industry surviving, and not infrequently thriving, during tough economic times