Improving Bath helps tourists and locals ; Chronicle Comment

Tourism is, as we know, a massive part of Bath life.

Not only do the tourists from all over the world bring millionsof pounds into our city but they also sustain thousands of jobs andhelp to ensure Bath has the facilities and attractions which alsobenefit all those who live and work here. And that is why the citymust do everything it can to embrace and support visitors.

We therefore welcome and applaud some of the ideas which emergedfrom Bath's annual tourist forum on Tuesday where the new chiefexecutive of Bath Tourism Plus Nick Brooks-Sykes, and the highly-respected travel writer Simon Calder, called on the city to lookforward and to examine afresh its …