SNP Pledge To Fight Closure of Falkirk Tourist Advice Centre

Falkirk Council's SNP Councillors have pledged to fight a proposal to close the Falkirk Town Centre Tourist Advice Centre.

Under the SNP Falkirk's gross income from tourism rose annually by 6% yet one of the first proposals from the new Labour / Tory Administration is to close the Falkirk Town Centre Tourist Information office and relocate it to the Falkirk Wheel.

The matter will be debated at the first meeting of Falkirk Council's Environmental and Heritage Committee and will be vigorously opposed by SNP Councillors.

SNP Environmental and Heritage spokesperson, Cllr John Constable, said,

"We spent six years building up the case for greater opportunities for the promotion of tourism throughout the entire district and Labour take four months to begin to dismantle our achievements.

The Falkirk Wheel is a tremendous asset to tourism promotion within the district but it must not become the beginning and end of tourist's experience locally.

We must take maximum advantage of the opportunities tourisms gives the local economy and that means brining tourists into the town centre. If the tourist information centre in the town centre is closed then less tourists will be brought into the centre and therefore into Falkirk district's other attractions."