tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:38:58 +0000jersey tourismjerseyjersey airportjersey hospitality associationflybejersey hotelscondor ferrieshd ferriesjersey harboursBMIst malotourismHeathrowchannel islandsjersey tour operatorsluton airportthomsonflybattle of flowersbmibaby thomsonflyjersey conferencesjersey economic developmentjersey governmentradissonseymour hotelsstates of jerseyBmiBabyTUITripAdvisorairport chargesbirmingham international airportbradfordbritish airwayscardiff airportcoventry airportdoncaster airporteasyjetfamily hotelsflowriderfort regenthotelclubhotelsisle of manjersey air displayjersey airport jerseyjersey brandingjersey environmentjersey evening postjersey financejersey guest housesjersey livejersey restaurantsjersey statesjersey surfboard clubjersey waterfrontjersey.comjet2.comleedsliverpool airportlocummanx2merton hotelpomme d'or hotelsport jerseysports tourismst heliersurf resortstravel marketingwebsitesInformation and comment on aspects of Jersey's Tourism industryhttp://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)Blogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-1327031045938491011Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:09:00 +00002008-04-08T10:54:00.038+01:00jersey hospitality associationjersey tourismAt the Jersey Hospitality Association AGM we had been told that the re-launch of the new jersey.com website was imminent. Lo and behold this morning there it is.It all seems to be working OK and the page load speeds have been sorted out. They've replaced those awful maps with Google mapping and the Events page is a whole lot better. I am still disappointed with the imagery - I don't think the http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/04/jerseycom-live-at-last.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-1095081774474107226Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:11:00 +00002008-04-04T19:53:17.394+01:00flowridermerton hotelseymour hotelsIt's been a big week at Seymour Hotels this week. I don't normally write about what's occurring here, but we've seen two major switch-on's for the Group in the past two days.Firstly, the much talked-about Flowrider at the Merton Hotel saw it's first riders sample the ride on Thursday. There's been a real buzz around the hotel at the prospect of this amazing facility 'going live' and we were not http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/04/surfingfor-real-and-on-web.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-2655232016423729316Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:46:00 +00002008-03-29T15:27:46.979+00:00jersey hospitality associationThe Jersey Hospitality Association held its AGM yesterday at The Radisson. Robert Jones of Jersey Pottery took over the role of President from Robyn Lapidus - the first non-hotel member to do so in the 50 year history of the trade body. As regular readers of this blog know, I am keen supporter of a purpose built conference and events centre in St Helier. Yesterday, the idea received further http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-support-for-conference-centre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-6872728585578558827Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:07:00 +00002008-03-13T17:38:38.475+00:00The media for the last couple of days have been focusing on the impact of the Haut de la Garenne story on the tourism industry. This was prompted by the anecdotal evidence suggesting sales were 10-15% down and that research undertaken last weekend in the UK indicated that the media coverage has had a negative impact on forward bookings.I believe Jersey Tourism were right to withdraw the campaign http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/03/jersey-tourism-takes-right-decision.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-4978958481426498377Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:05:00 +00002008-03-02T13:13:56.057+00:00Eights days after the first revelations of child abuse at the former Jersey children’s home were revealed to the world at large, the media attention on our small island is unrelenting. Today’s Sunday newspapers do not make for pleasant reading and clearly the investigation into the various strands of this horrific story will continue for weeks, months and probably years to come. Every day it http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/03/haut-la-garenne-impact-for-tourism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-235593003870806550Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:43:00 +00002008-02-25T19:08:19.906+00:00jersey conferencesjersey governmentlocumOn Friday last, Jersey’s Education Sport & Culture Minister, Senator Mike Vibert, published his Strategic Plan for a National Gallery for Jersey and requested interested parties to respond with comments on the proposal. You can download a copy by clicking hereAlong with the Strategic Plan, the Minister published yet another report from Locum Consulting (the third of substance from these http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/02/national-art-gallery-for-jersey-its.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-7130917962590977825Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:02:00 +00002008-02-08T17:15:48.333+00:00flybejersey airportToday Flybe announced that they would start operating weekly flights between Jersey and Nice on the French Riviera from 24th May. Great news for Jersey residents looking for a week in Provence or hoping to break the bank of Monte Carlo, but is this of benefit to Jersey’s visitor economy?Deputy Alan Maclean welcomed the announcement today, suggesting that “This new route opens up a number of http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/02/nice-to-see-youto-see-you-nice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-6821912266779630625Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:51:00 +00002008-02-08T17:14:43.067+00:00jersey airportthomsonflyTUIIt’s been a bit quiet on the blogging front for the past few weeks. But rather like London buses, you have nothing to write about for weeks and then 3 stories come along at once.Firstly, there’s the mighty JCRA levying a crushing fine of, wait for it….. £10,000 on TUI (parent company of Thomsonfly) for failing to advise them back in September of their acquisition of First Choice. Apparently, http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/02/jerseys-competition-authoritys-fine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-6114160639375329891Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:35:00 +00002008-02-08T17:14:16.098+00:00condor ferrieshd ferriesjersey harboursTwo ferry stories in the past fortnight which are probably non-stories. 1. The Daily Telegraph reported on 24th January that Condor Ferries was to be sold on by Royal Bank of Scotland (the report has not been confirmed or denied by the company). However, as Rob Provan their chief executive has pointed out, it has no impact on the business. RBS bought Condor from ABN Amro just 3 & ½ years ago,http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/02/ferries-separating-fact-from-fiction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-1030376905238917947Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:38:00 +00002008-01-19T13:29:09.278+00:00jersey economic developmentjersey hospitality associationjersey tourismThe creation of a new marketing organisation for Jersey, based on a private public partnership, is possibly the single biggest change in the tourism industry for over two decades. It’s surprising therefore that the release of the final proposal document has taken place without so far a word to the industry from either of the two sponsors. You can download a copy by clicking here.Locum Consulting http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/01/jersey-tourism-ppp-economic-development.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-2743667492037980096Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:02:00 +00002008-01-16T18:21:15.867+00:00tourismtravel marketingwebsitesComscore and Google have recently announced the results of a survey into 20,000 UK online consumers and their behaviour in purchasing travel online. The research revealed that on average: 20 million people in the UK used the internet to research their holiday in the first quarter of 2007Consumers visited 22 (yes that’s right – 22!) websites before purchasing. Made 12 travel related searches usinghttp://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/01/promiscuous-online-travel-consumers-how.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-3974433670703586485Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:42:00 +00002008-01-03T15:48:02.493+00:00jersey tourismA Happy New Year to everyone who follows this blog. It's good to be back after the festive season.Now if you were to come up with a list of days of the year to bury bad news, then Christmas Eve would come pretty near the top of the list. That may be why Jersey Tourism chose that day to release October's staying visitor statistics.After a year of generally positive figures, October saw a http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2008/01/october-visitors-down-is-it-blip-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-4232866234392978147Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:42:00 +00002007-12-17T18:09:42.523+00:00jersey tourismjersey.comLast Thursday, ten days after it went live, Jersey Tourism took the decision to remove the disastrous new jersey.com website and revert back to the old site. Today, Tourism's chief David de Carteret issued the following statement to the industry:"I am writing to provide you with an update on the status of jersey.com following some difficulties which we have been experiencing in moving to the new http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/12/jerseycom-new-site-removed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-4812054387221734339Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:32:00 +00002007-12-04T10:30:13.955+00:00jersey tourismI promised not to give an immediate reaction to the new jersey.com website, when it finally went live last Monday. This was in order to give the developers a chance to get all the new content loaded and sort out any major bugs etc.It’s now been live for over a week and the time has come to pass judgement. In every respect the new site is a major disappointment. It is uninspiring, the indexation http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/jerseycom-uninspiring-bland-250000-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-3526134495536881846Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:02:00 +00002007-11-21T10:36:58.912+00:00easyjetjersey airportjersey tourismliverpool airportluton airportIt's been widely anticipated and much hoped for, but today it's confirmed. Easyjet are to start flying to Jersey in 2008.Easyjet is Europe's leading low-fares airline and along with Ryanair dominate the market. For almost a decade the island has been wishing that it could be in a position to attract one of the 'big two' to fly to the island. Now that wish has come true and from March next year http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/futures-brightthe-futures-orange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-227466767083946037Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:42:00 +00002007-11-17T15:55:30.691+00:00jersey tourismOne issue, more than any other, was being talked about at the Jersey Tourism conference. We had been told that the new website that had taken £250,000 of public money to develop was going to be revealed publicly for the first time.What we saw was definitely an anti-climax. A few screen shots of certain pages, including the new front page which is now being shared with Business Development and http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/one-issue-more-than-any-other-was-being.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-5232423511435235453Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:51:00 +00002007-11-17T15:21:02.487+00:00jersey airportjersey tourismOn November 8th, the industry gathered once again to hear from the Jersey Tourism marketing team and others about the results of the 2007 campaign and the plans for 2008. It was a special day for this blog, as it was the same event last year that resulted in the first post.Last year, I was eulogising over the performance of Sunara Spires of Jersey Tourism’s advertising agency, Communiqué. This http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/green-is-word-at-tourism-conference.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-4134207716584543623Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:10:00 +00002007-11-05T17:35:41.388+00:00fort regentjerseyjersey conferencesI know where I would put my money.Last Saturday the Jersey Evening Post revealed that it would cost £5-6 million to build a new art gallery at The Weighbridge. On top of that it is suggested that there will be an annual running cost of up to £500k. And would you pay £10 to visit the attraction? No – nor would I! Surely Jersey doesn’t need its own art gallery? We have some fabulous works (such as http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/6-million-to-invest-art-gallery-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-1617676456134360681Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:37:00 +00002007-11-01T11:05:55.525+00:00flybeHeathrowjersey airportjersey economic developmentthomsonflyAn 8 page ‘Flybe - aren’t we wonderful’ supplement fell out of the Jersey Evening Post last night. Basically it’s an advertorial (I hate that word) supplement designed to inform us about all the new routes and destinations Flybe are serving and encourage us to fly with them more frequently. But on the front page of the supplement, Flybe’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mike Rutter could not resist http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/11/flybe-takes-pop-at-economic-development.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-2312329223324015561Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:36:00 +00002007-10-28T12:09:29.442+00:00BMIbritish airwaysflybejersey airportjersey surfboard clubBad news arrived last week for surfers across the world, as the UK's national flag carrier British Airways issued a world-wide blanket ban on the carriage of surf boards. The ban, which is effective from 6th November will have a big impact on Jersey's surfing community and not help the island's tourism industry in the cause to attract more European and World surfing events to Jersey. Not http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/10/british-airways-its-wipe-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-2483568399959103739Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:04:00 +00002007-10-19T12:55:50.849+01:00jersey hospitality associationIt's Friday so I reckon it's OK for a bit of silliness. It's also the day after the Jersey Hospitality Association's 50th Anniversary Dinner (well done Gerald and everyone for organising a great evening!). I was feeling a bit the worse for wear, until someone introduced me to this website bedjump.com.The website address is self-explanatory. For example this image was taken at The Heathman Hotel http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/10/bed-jumping-latest-craze-sweeping-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-7142998432306091042Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:44:00 +00002007-10-19T14:58:48.164+01:00jersey hospitality associationjersey tourismThe visitor stats for August are a bit like Jonny Wilkinson's kicking -mixed. The figures are now published (you can view them by clicking here) and at first sight they make for quite encouraging reading. Volume is up 3.7% on 2007 for the month of August and cumulatively for the year up by about 5000 visitors - or just under 2%.Two points to note however. Firstly the average length of stay has http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/10/august-bed-nights-static-and-tourists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-1799159814443673567Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:39:00 +00002007-10-09T12:52:09.565+01:00cardiff airportcoventry airportdoncaster airportjersey airportluton airportthomsonflyI thought it was all going too smoothly for Julian Green and his team at Jersey Airport.After a year that saw a number of new routes & significant growth in passenger numbers, we've been brought down to earth with a bump by the news that Thomsonfly are to cease operating from Doncaster, Luton & Cardiff from March 2008. This will leave Coventry as the only route operated by the airline - http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/10/thomsonfly-were-not-smiling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-77310505936822641Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:47:00 +00002007-10-05T10:04:04.764+01:00condor ferrieshd ferriesjersey harboursst maloIt's still very messy down at the docks, with HD Ferries this week announcing that it would be suspending it's service to St Malo for the winter and at the same time taking steps to sue Condor Ferries for describing their operation as 'low safety'. Rob Provan, Chief Executive of Condor Ferries released the statement back on 3rd August, following a collision between one of their high-speed vesselshttp://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/10/hd-ferries-vs-condor-ferries-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006203019083072671.post-8764331239850105015Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:40:00 +00002007-09-28T09:57:27.241+01:00channel islandsjerseyradissonWhat on earth is happening at the new Radisson? One day we are told by the management of the hotel that it will not be opening until just before Christmas. The following day the owners of the hotel come out and refuted this claim, insisting that the hotel will be open in the first week of November.Apparently the construction team are working overtime to ensure the hotel is finished for handover http://jersey-tourism.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-on-earth-is-happening-at-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Robert Mackenzie)0