Hey, I'm not their accountant. I don't know what their profit and loss statement is, I'm just saying that a very large percentage of tourism is people wanting to see the Royal Family in action, tour their palaces, stay at their castles, see the jewels, tour the dungeons, etc etc etc.
And while they are there, they visit pubs, spend money on souvenirs, ride the transit system, etc etc etc. This current "Kate and William" stuff is fantastic publicity for an entire country who is hurting financially and needs the tourism dollar. They are banking on the huge hordes of people who love Princess Diana and the whole fairytale. Some quotes: "An estimated 600,000 tourists are expected in London this week because of the royal wedding, and many of them are from the United States. The number of Americans visiting London is up 20 percent this month, thanks to Prince William and Kate Middleton, tourism experts say. " Read more here: http://www.londonandpartners.com/media-centre/press-releases/2011/overseas-visitors-to-london-spend-more-than-86-billion-in-2010-as-capital-bucks-uk-trend You asked what their purpose is these days, and that's what it is. Tourism. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]>wrote: > > Enough so that the net sum of tourist dollars pays for an entire family to > live extremely lavish lives and have sub-$100 million weddings? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
