Can Capital of Culture save Liverpool from the crunch?
Nov 19 2008 by Bill Gleeson, Liverpool Daily Post IF THE Lynn Jones hotel trade figures published on this supplement’s front page are anything to go by, we could be about to come down to earth with a nasty bump. While it is still early days, hotel advance bookings for 2009 are well down on levels seen this time last year for 2008. This will disappoint many in the hotel trade who had hoped the momentum built up during Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture would continue for several years to come, as it did after Glasgow’s year. But timing and events may have conspired against us. Glasgow did not have a huge global economic downturn to contend with, as we do now.
