THE letter from Councillors Yates and Hanson in last week's Citizen is very revealing.

Frontierland remains a major asset to Morecambe's tourism industry and I feel it is unproductive to antagonise the owner of the attraction. Those who are concerned about the future of Bubbles are no more satisfied with it than the city council. The campaign simply wishes to ensure that the complex is retained until something better is properly planned and built. The length of the Bubbles lease has been known since it was first signed and a better administration might have sought to make plans for the future long before now. Only someone with a weak understanding of economics would expect the private sector to invest in an establishment which it did not own and which was held on a short lease.

Morecambe and Heysham Chamber of Trade remains deeply concerned about the nature of those who hold high office at the city council with regard to their understanding of the economics of the tourism industry in Morecambe. The chamber acknowledges that Councillor Hanson is relatively new in her responsibility to tourism and we wish her well in that post. Nonetheless we would advise caution before she allows her name to be appended again to such an intemperate letter as that which appeared in last week's Citizen.

Audrey Jones

President

Morecambe & Heysham

Chamber of Trade

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