Jim Rodgers criticises NI Tourist Board after Twelfth events are omitted from Our Time Our Place calendar
4 months ago, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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2012 is Northern Irelands biggest push to promote tourism in our country but now a row has broken out over the lack of promotion of our Orange marching season. Our time, Our place is the Northern Ireland tourist boards campaign aimed at providing a platform for a year long series of events to attract visitors to the province. Among many of the attractions listed are the Irish Open at Portrush, St. Patrick's Day celebrations and the West Belfast festival. But it seems that our tourism chiefs have omitted the annual Twelfth of July celebrations...
It just shows what happens when you have politically motivated people running whats supposed to be primarily a commercial business namely promoting of tourism.
I mean they have the biggest street festival in the whole of Europe provided free for them every year and for political reasons they ditch all the commercial opportunities that potentially provides
What a bunch of politically correct total prats they are.
The Ulster Scot agency is one example of this. I have a large leaflet they once produced promoting Ulster USA links. It had the proper Ulster flag beside the Stars & Stripes.
The tourist board wouldnt distribute it until that yellow and red thing replaced the Ulster flag and the original leaflet scrapped.
As far as im concerned the further they are kept away from our parades the better.
Also if anone does feel aggreived that they are ignoring our parades I wouldnt bother complaining to the tourist board instead I would write to all the commercial organisations who benefit from tourism letting them know what an abysmyally terrible job they are doing and the huge amounts of money their businesses are losing because of a politically motivated quasi commercial promotional organisation.
MONEY TALKS!