Hi,
We notice a drop off in older visitors during the school holidays, plus most of our coach groups are made up of older visitors and we do not get as many of them in high season.
Going on from Laura's comments, we have seen a definite increase in visitors from overseas this year. We always get a large number of German and Dutch, but in terms of European visitors we have seen a lot of Swiss, Italians and Austrians. This has also been noticed in other businesses in Princetown which probably supports anecdotal evidence that the cost of living crisis is less severe outside the UK.
Kind regards
Paul
Paul Finegan
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Many thanks Paul and Laura. Wet weather recently definitely seems to be creating bumper July figures.
An observation from me but this is not based on data. We seem to be having lower levels of older visitors at M shed. Does that seem true for any other sites?
Julie
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> Hi all -
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> We are a free entry venue, typically seeing 75,000 visitors pa pre-Covid. We have seen a huge uptick in the numbers of visitors with the advent of the Summer holidays and are now sitting comfortably at between 300-500 per day (weather depending), which is what we would usually expect at this time of year. We're also seeing a large influx of visitors from abroad, many visiting the UK for the first time. French, German, Italian and Spanish right now, with the NZ and Australian audiences beginning to fade out. China and the US have been pretty constant visitors since the spring.
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> Subject: SW rep meeting this afternoon - any up to date info to share with us appreciated
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> Hello again,
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> Myself and Stef will be attending an online meeting with the MA this afternoon. These meetings allow time for regional updates and other business.
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> As you are aware from previous rep emails one of the agenda items is: updates with focus on post-Covid recovery including visitor numbers, and cost of living impact.
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> We are aware that there is a mixed picture across the region and nationally and this can be impacted by being a museum with charged entry, seasonal differences, size of museum, location etc..
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> The main data that we have currently is from the SWMD annual museum survey which closed September 2022. (Looking forward to viewing the 2023 AMS in the Autumn) or from members sharing information.
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> If you have up to date knowledge that you would be happy to share with us we would appreciate your insight. If possible, could you also include a quick note as to size of museum and other relevant info such as free entry.
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> Thank you.
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> Julie and Stef
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