At a meeting of the Isle of Wight council’s Economy and environment scrutiny panel, John Metcalfe, deputy director of the economy and tourism, gave a mixed message about the Island’s tourism performance.
He estimated 2.5 million people visited the Island in the year leading up to July 2011 – with 95% of those being from the UK, David Newble in the CP reports.
Day visitors were down 9% (91,000 less), but the number of people who actually stayed on the Island, 1.47 million, was up 5%.
Mr Metcalfe told the CP, “We flat-lined but the rest of Great Britain is down four per cent. We are not performing as badly as everyone else.”
