Tourists love our Capital

Just one Welsh city made it into the top 50 most visited places in Britain, according to figures released today which demonstrate the challenges facing Wales’ tourism sector.

Cardiff came in at 11 in Visit Britain’s rankings for overseas visits to towns and cities in 2012. The Welsh capital had 301,000 visits, and was just ahead of Leeds (299,000) and behind Brighton (345,000).

London topped the list in the Olympic year, with nearly 15.5 million visitors from around the world.

A mere 67,000 visits were made to Swansea, which failed to make it into the league table. Newport had just 42,000 recorded visits, Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000; Caernarfon and Tenby each received 15,000 visits.

Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000

Fair play to Swansea, they had a thousand more than these three put together!
Not forgetting all the premier league visitors they were on about. I wonder what it would have been without them?

Overall that's piss poor Lol our tourist board etc are utter shit at promoting wales. Heads should roll.

Overall that's piss poor Lol our tourist board etc are utter shit at promoting wales. Heads should roll.

The tourist boards for all area of the UK are shit. More and more non-UK tourist boards are taking up UK TV advertising and I'm sure the California one being the most popular. However Ive even seen the likes of Macadonia, Russia etc being advertised. However I have never seen an TV advert from the UK tourist board in outside of the UK!!! Maddness in this day and age IMO!!!

Wales is the forgotten celtic country, which is a shame, because we probably have just as much to offer as scotland and ireland

Wales is the forgotten celtic country, which is a shame, because we probably have just as much to offer as scotland and ireland

But its only forgotten because the promotion of it is $hit lets be honest.

We are a beautiful country, that has give the world Plenty over the years. America has alot of Welsh roots in its beginings. Yet we chose to advertise on HTV wales and S4C when they should be targeting countries abroad . Just jobs for the boys.

Edinburgh was second on the list and you can see why. The Scottish government promote the shit out of the place. Dont think the Welsh assembly are doing the same, doesnt help that Cardiff airport is shite as well.

You ask the average American and they will mostly know where Scotland is but Wales? No chance.

Mind you Edinburgh does have high profile events such as the fringe festival and Hogmany as well which helps them get tourists in.

I find them a bit of a pain in the arse when i'm trying to walk to work and theres 20 of them snapping photos of evrything in sight!

Unless things have changed, Wales are not allowed to promote our tourist attractions abroad, we come under the umbrella of the British tourist board, and they promote Wales not the Welsh tourist board, this needs to change now that we have our own government, London doesn't give a shit about Wales, the sooner the people of Wales realise this and vote for the only party that will look after our needs the better, and I don't mean Labour or the Conservatives.

I know this will not happen in my life time, but hey I never thought Cardiff would get to the PL, so I will live in hope

For year, and years Wales couldn't promote tourism Independently

Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000

Fair play to Swansea, they had a thousand more than these three put together!
Not forgetting all the premier league visitors they were on about. I wonder what it would have been without them?

A sad fact for Swansea's Council marketing was that 70% of the visiting fans to their Liberty Games stayed, Shopped and eat in Cardiff. some stayed over two nights. They're rubbing their hands together for the coming season many many more on the way.

Just one Welsh city made it into the top 50 most visited places in Britain, according to figures released today which demonstrate the challenges facing Wales’ tourism sector.

Cardiff came in at 11 in Visit Britain’s rankings for overseas visits to towns and cities in 2012. The Welsh capital had 301,000 visits, and was just ahead of Leeds (299,000) and behind Brighton (345,000).

London topped the list in the Olympic year, with nearly 15.5 million visitors from around the world.

A mere 67,000 visits were made to Swansea, which failed to make it into the league table. Newport had just 42,000 recorded visits, Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000; Caernarfon and Tenby each received 15,000 visits.

My word your numbers are way out, 4.1 million people visited the county and city of swansea in 2012 with expenditure £337.13 million supporting 5390 jobs.

Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000

Fair play to Swansea, they had a thousand more than these three put together!
Not forgetting all the premier league visitors they were on about. I wonder what it would have been without them?

A sad fact for Swansea's Council marketing was that 70% of the visiting fans to their Liberty Games stayed, Shopped and eat in Cardiff. some stayed over two nights. They're rubbing their hands together for the coming season many many more on the way.

that's a clearly false post.

Link?

Just one Welsh city made it into the top 50 most visited places in Britain, according to figures released today which demonstrate the challenges facing Wales’ tourism sector.

Cardiff came in at 11 in Visit Britain’s rankings for overseas visits to towns and cities in 2012. The Welsh capital had 301,000 visits, and was just ahead of Leeds (299,000) and behind Brighton (345,000).

London topped the list in the Olympic year, with nearly 15.5 million visitors from around the world.

A mere 67,000 visits were made to Swansea, which failed to make it into the league table. Newport had just 42,000 recorded visits, Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000; Caernarfon and Tenby each received 15,000 visits.

My word your numbers are way out, 4.1 million people visited the county and city of swansea in 2012 with expenditure £337.13 million supporting 5390 jobs.

TbF The original post is overseas visitors so wouldn't take British people from other UK cities into consideration. So attendances to Swansea matches wouldn't be taken into consideration as the vast majority would be from UK cities. The figures your stating is probably an overall, including people from all over. Including people visiting from Cardiff and other parts of South Wales.

A mere 67,000 visits were made to Swansea.

and 60,000 of them came in caravans and parked in the Liberty Stadium car park.

Llandudno 24,000, Bangor 22,000 and Holyhead 20,000

Fair play to Swansea, they had a thousand more than these three put together!
Not forgetting all the premier league visitors they were on about. I wonder what it would have been without them?

A sad fact for Swansea's Council marketing was that 70% of the visiting fans to their Liberty Games stayed, Shopped and eat in Cardiff. some stayed over two nights. They're rubbing their hands together for the coming season many many more on the way.

that's a clearly false post.

Link?

What reddragons fans making things up never