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    This is almost certainly going to be a poor year for the Port of Dover. In fact there was a major conference yesterday of national tourism organisations looking at the best way of capitalisng on the expected boom in people holidaying at home. Not everything is hit by recession but certainly the market shifts. There has been a huge boom in the purchase of cheap food for example. People cut their cloth according to their means in a recession and so they will with travel.

    But I think the management of P&O and Seafrance are budgeting for the downturn. Seafrance as we all know took drastic action by cutting more than 800 jobs. Thats in view more of the prospects to come rather than the upshot of the previous years trading.

    We spoke about this potential holiday boom before on Doverforum...so lets hope the town can capitalise in some way. I expect nobody from this town was at the national conference on tourism 2009.

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