The tourist industry exists in name only

The sad answer to that is our tourist industry exists in name only and is all but dead.

Compared to the 1980s when I left school it’s all but disappeared.

Visitor attractions have shut down, the Town is dying, it’s not cheap like it used to be for tourists once they are on the island. We are still meant to be VAT-free but we all know things are so much cheaper in the UK, and when the States do get around to adding a sales tax that will be yet another nail in its coffin.

The number of tourist beds have shrunk to almost nothing and I still remember when some of the hotels used to do evening shows – now sadly a thing consigned to history.

Getting on and off the island is a rip off and can very unreliable.

It’s very sad to think that in the 1980s we actually had a much better service and more variety than we do now.

Guernsey is just a ‘sunny day’ destination, if you have kids we literally have nothing to do when it rains apart from plonk yourself in a coffee shop or restaurant and wait for things to get better.

In fact we have become more of a day-trip destination thanks to the cruise liners but I can’t see that carrying on if there is not much to see or do once they get off the ship.

Town regeneration has been talked about for years but I very much doubt anything meaningful will happen.

We don’t even have a proper cinema.

We were meant to have had a multiplex which also had bowling and a restaurant but like many things over here it was promised, but nothing happened.

So it’s too expensive to get here, once you are here not much to do and expensive so if you have a family is Guernsey on your to-do list?

I don’t think so.

Martin Bishop