economic times, with businesses fighting for market share, the regular issue of facts & figures increases as consumer influence becomes more important to future success. A recent ‘YouGov’ poll in the UK tells us that an increasing number of people will holiday at home next year while, on the other hand, a major travel company claims that web sales for foreign holidays are up by 300% As someone once said – “Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything”! While experts fight it out, resorts like Roda find themselves to be casualties of war and it becomes increasingly important for visitors to stay in touch with the village until the dust settles and a new kind of normality emerges. By reading this magazine and visiting the ‘roda online’ web site, you are helping to sustain the village that we all love. Because of you, our web site will have received more than 110,000 page views by the time of our first anniversary on September 27– thank you!
Just who do you believe as experts and organisations churn out all manner of statistics for public consumption? All the figures are perfectly believable, no doubt they all have some substance, and possibly those who deliver them often accept them as being true. In difficult