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Many other Towns seem to embrace new initiatives, so good luck to Folkestone.
I thought their Town Centre Manager, a chap called John Barber, was also in charge of Tourism and doing quite well for the Town; maybe he resigned or was dismissed for some reason - it does happen.
I do think that anyone who heads such a group should be paid, it is not easy, or successful, instructing someone to do certain things if he/she is a volunteer.
In Dover, it has been tried, but either the person/people was/were wrong, or the organisations supposedly running it, were just not capable of running it, or had no idea what to do and couldn't tell the difference between a bad or a good idea.
I know what to do and what needs to be done to make Dover a destination, but I guess I have upset/grumbled/urged too strongly, to people about what should be done and so will never be offered (again) to do this for Dover.
That's O.K. with me (now) I accept that will never be the case, but Dover as a Town, a viable destination for visitors and tourists, as well as a business community and of course home for many thousands of people, cannot wait much longer for the stakeholders to come together and form something to move the Town forward.
As I've said before the big regeneration is coming and not too far off now, but it is the ground-floor stuff that needs organising and doing. Nothing is scheduled for the Market Square, Cannon Street and Biggin Street, the roads off and roads further up, like the High Street and London Road.
If anything is being done, it is small scale and done by the individual businesses, no real help for any of them.
Roger