Articles by Paul Reach

Here are the latest Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay. They show a significant week on week and year on year drop in line with the rest of the country, so the effects of the new lockdown are very apparent. (Read more)

Here are the first Springboard footfall figures for the new year 2021. We are performing OK compared to other locations in the UK and the South West however this data precludes the new lockdown so we can expect a bigger (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 52 of 2020, our last figures for the year. We are lacking the comparison with UK and South West so we cannot judge our relative performance from these numbers. However there is a (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 51, only one more to go in this tumultuous year! They show again that Dartmouth has outperformed the South west and the UK in all figures. YOY we are only 7% down (Read more)

Anthony Mangnall MP for Totnes and South Devon If you are operating in the Tourism or Hospitality business sector then help Anthony Mangnall our MP fight for your future by completing his survey.  Calling all hospitality and tourism businesses in (Read more)

Here are the footfall figures for week 50, the first full week out of lockdown but in tier 2. We did not receive the UK and South West comparisons until late today so we can only judge this figure on (Read more)

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth Town Centre for week 49 2020. They show a big week on week increase of 90% and a better than average YOY reduction of only 14.86%, which is less than the UK (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 48 2020. They are now consistently showing just over -60% down during the Covid lockdown. This weeks figures will give an interesting insight into how much people will return to the high (Read more)

Here are the Dartmouth footfall figures for last week (week 47). You can see that the decline is consistent YOY across the country. There is little we can do to influence this decline so we can only wait to find (Read more)

The Government has announced new support for self employed during the lockdown and beyond. This summarises their support: government increases support under the third instalment of the UK-wide Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, with people receiving 80% of average trading profits (Read more)

We now have the latest Springboard footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay in week 46. The figures show a dramatic reduction in footfall compared to last year. However the figure is similar for all areas of the UK so it is (Read more)

The latest footfall figures for Dartmouth show that in line with the rest of the country the new lockdown has ended the rush of visitors to the town. A decline of 35% over last year is significant but understandable in (Read more)

we now have the Dartmouth footfall figures for week 44. Unfortunately they do not include the comparative figures for the UK and South West, however I have a regular newsletter from Springboard which does give us the overall UK figures (Read more)

Here we have the week 43 results for footfall in Dartmouth Quay. We are still showing a significantly better performance than the rest of the UK and the South West as a whole. Our figures show that we are at (Read more)

We now have the Springboard footfall figures for week 42 (last week). They again show a strong recovery in visitor numbers to Dartmouth in comparison with the UK and the South West. Even though our numbers were much the same (Read more)

Visit South Devon are holding a zoom meeting to discuss the introduction of the new Discover Dartmouth marketing programme. A new website with free entry and a comprehensive digital marketing programme will all be up for discussion. If you run (Read more)

Again we have outperformed both the UK and the South West in footfall levels during last week, wk41. With similar figures to week 39, we achieved levels 26% above last year, while the UK was 37% down and the South (Read more)

Today we have received the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth during last week, week 40 2020. They show again a consistently better performance than, both the rest of the UK, and the South West as a whole. With a year (Read more)

Participate in this series of eight free online 45 minute lunchtime strategic leadership seminars, starting next Tuesday 6th October. Aimed at helping Hospitality and Tourism businesses manage their way out of the effects of the pandemic. Click on the text (Read more)

Well I can’t explain this one!!! You can see from the latest Springboard report that footfall in Dartmouth has gone up dramatically. It is now 11% above the previous week but, more important, it is 26% above the same week (Read more)

The Fiver Fest, which was so successful first time around, is coming back to Dartmouth, see below from the Town Council

Here are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth in week 37. They show a big improvement in footfall almost matching the figure for last year. It is also 16% up on the previous week. When you consider the school holidays (Read more)

These are the latest footfall figures for Dartmouth Quay. Now that the schools have returned the visitor numbers have dropped significantly in Dartmouth. Down by 25% on the previous week and down 38% on the previous year. Both the UK (Read more)

We have missed a week but now have the footfall figures for week 33, last week. They show that Dartmouth has fallen more in-line with the rest of the country with a year on year figure of -36.83% compared to (Read more)

We have just received the Springboard footfall data for last week (week 31). It shows a similar trend to the previous week with Dartmouth performing better than both the West-Country and the UK overall. However the difference is not as (Read more)

Once again Dartmouth has outperformed the rest of the West-Country and the UK for overall footfall levels. Last week we were only 17% down on last year compared to both the West Country and the UK which were both over (Read more)

Week 29 was an interesting week for Dartmouth. Despite the fact that the national figures showed a slowing down in the rise in footfall (yes! just think about that) Dartmouth sustained the over 80% week on week increase seen in (Read more)

We have the new footfall figures for week 28 and they make very interesting reading. The reporting has changed so we do not receive the comparison we used to get against UK and West-Country. However an email from Springboard does (Read more)