{"id":7559,"date":"2012-10-17T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2012-10-17T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:23:29","slug":"what-visitors-think-of-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=7559","title":{"rendered":"What visitors think of Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12101803.jpg\" alt=\"What Visitors Think\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening was the Annual Public Meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131122021213\/http:\/\/chooseabingdon.co.uk:80\/\">Choose Abingdon Partnership<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag12\/12101804.jpg\" alt=\"What Visitors Think\" \/><br \/>\nThe outgoing Chairman (pictured) has been in the job for the three years &#8211; since the partnership started &#8211; and a new chap took over tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting part of the evening was a report on how visitors perceive Abingdon.\u00a0 Good perceptions were:\u00a0 the town&#8217;s appearance and cleanliness,\u00a0 good service and welcome in shops \/ eating places &#8211; service was particularly good at the Tourist Information Centre. Not so good were: public toilets, vacant shops and confusing signage.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors tended to be 56 years or older, and come for a family or public event, and are not drawn in by publicity but by word of mouth, or they are revisiting. They will come back and will recommend the town.<\/p>\n<p>My report is an oversimplification. The full report will be available on the internet in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening was the Annual Public Meeting of the Choose Abingdon Partnership. The outgoing Chairman (pictured) has been in the job for the three years &#8211; since the partnership started &#8211; and a new chap took over tonight. The most interesting part of the evening was a report on how visitors perceive Abingdon.\u00a0 Good perceptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}