howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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john in yet another role yesterday.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Is that a security guard's outfit - he looks like a cowboy.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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indeed roger i was waiting for john to invite me to "go for my irons, the american tourists will like it though.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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The Dover Greeters is a DTC initiative to have easily identifiable persons in the town centre able and willing to advise visitors on where to go, bus times, provide directions and generally 'talk-up' the town. The greeters will be linked in to the shop-watch radio network and carry maps, doggy-poo bags and other things to help visitors and residents alike. For a start they/we will be in the town whenever a cruise ship is in the harbour, with more volunteers we will be able to spread this over the whole summer period. If anyone would like to volunteer simply get in touch with the Town Council and ask about Dover Greeters.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sounds like you've taken a leaf out of my Tourism Strategy/Plan of Action Chris. I guess it doesn't matter too much who's idea it is so long as the initiatves are taken up.
One thing I do think will be beneficial would be to have a leaflet like the Discover Dover one I produced a couple of years ago which had a map in the centre, all the historic sites and attractions and the best pubs, restaurants, cafes and shops - some indies and some chains.
The VIC (no, not Mr. Matcham) said it was the best, most popular leaflet they had ever had.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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i have a feeling that many of roger's ideas will be thought up anew.
i remember when the loyalty card finished, almost immediately a cafe in market square invented their own.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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That's true Howard - many projects and initiatves I created were turned down and then re-appeared some time later as someone else's idea.
I created a Passport to Leisure scheme whereby people bought an entry ticket to all the sites and attractions across Dover and then they could visit them as many times as they wanted over the course of the year.
It was all costed and worked out in every detail, but I needed the support of WCCTA but they just turned it down and so it never got off the ground.
I believe Wingham Wildlife Park and one or two others have now created such a scheme. It could have been flying by now and many sites and attractions would have made so much more money than they are now.
Same with a dvd/video of all the historic sites and attractions across the district - that was turned down, but a year later, a much poorer one was done costing around ten times as much as the one I was proposing and lasting only 5 minutes.
I have obviously p****d off a lot of people somehow; or someone doesn't want Dover to succeed.
Roger
