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allthatjaz -> RE: ROYAL WEDDING!!! (11/17/2010 3:00:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
To me it seems ages ago, not that small because I knew I was traveling at the time but a student, which is something that seems to be a life-time ago and for me counts in terms as not really grown up, technically yes but my student time was somehow before me "real adult time", I could have sworn I was younger, but it does blur a lot with the Royal Wedding (most of the Royal nonsense blurs because I try to avoid the rubbish to be honest) where I was definitely a small child as my grandmother was still alive and forced me to watch it with her.
As I said, I try to avoid all that stuff as much as possible and don't get the "Lady Diana Cult" at all or the cult about the rest of them, I understand that at one point in time they were a tourist attraction, but they're not even that anymore, to me they just seem to be a highly dysfunctional family with a lot of money and not too much common sense.
Wherever did you get the idea that the royal family are not tourist attraction anymore? Tourist revenues are huge and are going up an average of 11% a year. Last year alone, £500,000000 was spent by overseas visitors on attractions associated with the royal family.
That doesn't include those 30 million tourists paying for hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, taxis, as well as spending money in our struggling shops. The revenue these tourists bring in is huge.
I understand that London does have tourism markets outside of the royal family, but they are probably the main thing that attracts tourists to Britain.
As for being a waste of time, what’s the alternative? More politicians’? Politicians’ cost us a lot more, for much less in return.
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