Quotulatiousness

February 26, 2012

VisitBritain’s spelling problem

Filed under: Britain, Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 09:20

A bit of an embarrassment for Britain’s national tourism agency:

Tourists attempting to follow VisitBritain’s tip to travel to the Welsh region of the “Breacon Beacons” may find themselves rather lost when entering the destination into their satnav.

The misspelling of the Brecon Beacons was spotted by an eagle-eyed tourist on a New York subway advertisement, which was accompanied with a picturesque photograph capturing the countryside of Llandovery, a market town in Carmarthenshire.

The promotional image, which also currently appears in the advertising spaces in front of passenger seats in New York taxis, was promptly posted on Facebook.

June 15, 2011

Preview of the CN Tower Edgewalk experience

Filed under: Cancon, Randomness — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 07:25

H/T to Michael O’Connor Clarke for the link.

June 10, 2010

Photography: locals versus tourists

Filed under: Cancon, Media — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 09:27

By way of BoingBoing, here’s a Flickr collection showing the different photo locations chosen by locals and tourists for many cities. Toronto doesn’t show as much difference as many other cities do:

Blue dots are by locals, red dots are by tourists, and yellow dots could be by either (not enough information to determine).

September 22, 2009

According to the Danish tourist agency, Danish women are easy

Filed under: Europe — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 10:25

The Economist reports on a badly thought-out (and recently withdrawn) tourism-boosting campaign by VisitDenmark:

The film, shot in video-diary style, purports to be the work of a Danish woman with a baby: she says that the child is the result of a one-night stand with a foreign visitor and that she hopes the father will see the video and contact her.

It’s nicely acted, gently affecting, completely fake and unintentionally hilarious. This official advertisement for Denmark, meant to be “a good and sweet story about a mature, responsible woman who lives in a free society and shoulders the responsibility of her actions”, instead conveys the message that if you come to Denmark, you can sleep with attractive locals. Is that really the remit of the tourism agency?

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