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Minister re-opens Bunree holiday site
30/07/2002
Dr Elaine Murray today officially re-opened the Caravan
Club Golden Jubilee Site at Bunree following a £320,000
upgrade.
The site, which has enjoyed a total one million pound
investment since the 1980s, has been fitted out with new
toilet and shower blocks, baby and toddler rooms, a games
room and improved laundry facilities.
Bunree has pitches for 99 caravans and is one of the
club's most popular sites enjoying a 90 per cent occupancy
rate during the summer months and a 73 per cent average
throughout the year. The year-round popularity of the site
ensures that local traders benefit from an approximate one
million pounds in visitor spend.
Dr Murray, Deputy Minister for Tourism, Culture and
Sport said:
"Raising the standard of facilitites available for
tourist is of paramount importance to the industry today
and we must all offer our visitors both quality and value
for money.
"This iste is a great example of tourism being a
valuable and welcome part of the local community. The
improvements were carried out by local contractors and the
visitors the site attracts will help support local
businesses, shops, restaurants and attractions.
"All these points demonstrate that tourism is everyone's
business."
Bunree is one of more than 200 top-quality Caravan Club
sites in the UK, 31 of which are in Scotland. Each year
Club members spend over £18 million in Scotland on local
purchases. Over the last five years The Caravan Club has
invested over £33 million on improvements to its UK Site
network, the majority of which is spent with local building
contractors, landscapers and local tradesmen.
This latest £320,000 contract included upgrading of many
of the Site's facilities, taking into account suggestions
made by members and the British Holiday Parks grading
scheme. A total expenditure of £1 million has been invested
at Bunree to achieve its current standards.
The site has been selected to be one of the three
Caravan Club Golden Jubilee sites. The others are: Pembrey
Country Park in Wales, which was re-opened and renamed on
24 July by Andrew Davies AM, and Abbey Wood near Greenwich,
which is to be re-opened and renamed by the Club Patron HRH
The Duke of Edinburgh on 5 November.
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