Originally Posted by
racedo
Belfast Airport aims ?Bexit? campaign at travellers from Republic
Er you do realise that BFS is advertising for passengers from Irish Republic.........
As for tourism numbers being down, car hire agency used in BFS said that 50% of the cars they are hiring out for longer than 2 days are being used by people who will cross the border.
Site manager's assessment was that reduction of visitors from UK will have a 3 month lag from Dublin to Belfast but it will follow on from it and numbers will be down.
Parting shot was maybe there will be an uplift from Tory politicians crawling to the DUP.
I am presuming the grass being tunred and uplifted at the airport yesterday was being turned into sileage.
The simple fact is, we don't ultimately know what will happen with Brexit. Soft,...little change....hard...losses in some sectors but potential to chase business from multinational UK based airlines requiring an EU AOC.
Then there's the potential terrorist issues affecting US Transfer visitors' perception of UK, France, Europe as a whole.
Then there's the UK economy itself. Various experst claimed it would go off a cliff immediately after Brexit vote, didn't happen. And yet new mortgage approvals are drastically down in last quarter, a worrying sign. Who do we belive eh?
Weak sterling? Positives and negatives, all depends how it pans out. Would cut number of UK vistors looking to EU and North America, but would greatly appeal to pax inbound to UK from these markets, as well as making UK tourists look east to weaker currencies. I'm certainly not willing to bet on how things will look in 2 years, that's for sure.