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Tourists spend £6,850 in Sussex every minute

7:00pm Saturday 31st July 2010 in


Every minute of every day tourists spend more than £6,850 in Sussex, The Argus can reveal.

A total of £3.6 billion is injected every year into the county’s economy from holiday makers, day trippers and business travellers.

The economy of Brighton and Hove has been boosted by £693 million pounds in the last year.

The figures show every day visitors spend almost £2million in the city’s shops and businesses, meaning every minute £1,312.50 rings through tills in Brighton and Hove.

According to tourism body Tourism South East, East Sussex tourism is worth £2.1 billion and in West Sussex is worth £1.5billion. The value of tourism on Brighton and Hove’s economy has almost doubled since 1998, when it was worth £396 million a year to the city.

Comments(9)

Tammy Flugh says...
8:06pm Sat 31 Jul 10

Where's my share? Thirty odd years in Sussex and I haven't received a penny.

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Masterchav says...
10:10pm Sat 31 Jul 10

"meaning every minute £1,312.50 rings through tills in Brighton and Hove"....

... of which £1,311.99 is at Tesco probably

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PeteBrighton says...
12:06pm Sun 1 Aug 10

They must be very rich to spend that large amount each.

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PeteBrighton says...
12:07pm Sun 1 Aug 10

Caroline Lucas, who ALLEGEDLY lives outside Brighton is presumably included in these figures, can we know from her how much SHE spends, being a tourist to this constituency?

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Gubbins says...
1:48pm Sun 1 Aug 10

PeteBrighton.....not much mate, she spent just over £90,000 on her election campaign.

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Morpheus says...
4:04pm Sun 1 Aug 10

Where does all the money go? A small amount goes to paying wages for low paid jobs in the tourist industry and the majority leaves Brighton as profits.

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High Wire says...
5:57pm Sun 1 Aug 10

How can they tell a tourist £ versus a Brightonian £ ? Or is it just a wild guess...?

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Ian B Brewers says...
8:40am Mon 2 Aug 10

Good they want to sample a better area and feel happy 2 spend lots of cash in our area lovely jubbly mates

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Spanners says...
1:59pm Mon 2 Aug 10

Morpheus wrote:
Where does all the money go? A small amount goes to paying wages for low paid jobs in the tourist industry and the majority leaves Brighton as profits.
Exactly - it is not how much is spent that is truly important but how much is retained

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