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It’s not often I’m star-struck. But sitting in the Green Room of the Usher Hall in Edinburgh with the Bay City Rollers five years ago was quite a surreal experience for me. I couldn’t believe I was there – in my tartan trousers, of course – with Les McKeown, Stuart Wood and Alan Longmuir. These were the men who had adorned my bedroom wall when I was a girl, and here they were eating sandwiches and talking to me about my sons Jamie and Andy, as they got ready to go on stage. Actually, Les and co had not just been fixtures on my bedroom wall – the posters ripped from Jackie magazine and Fab 208 – but also on my school jotters, too. They were the inspiration for my fashion sense and the topic of every conversation at break time and after school too. They were the obsession of me and all my friends, and so many more teens around the world. Today, all those fans will be feeling as sad as I do at the news of Les McKeown’s untimely death this week, aged 65. It doesn’t feel fair and it’s far too early – not least as looking back, the band itself never got the chance to fulfil its potential either, thanks to poor management. Despite selling 120m records and being hailed as the new Beatles, the band’s heyday only lasted about four years – the length of time Les was the lead singer. But what years they were for us fans who became music’s answer to the Tartan Army. “Rollermania” didn’t just mean buying the singles – Remember, Summerlove Sensation, Bye Bye Baby and Shang-a-Lang; I took the latter with me as one of my Desert Island Discs.
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Last month I finally made the leap to setting up home in Cornwall, after living in London since I was 18. I had been on the lookout for the perfect place to live since last November but nothing was quite right. I wanted to get away from the chaos and pressure of the city but I didn’t want to move to the middle of nowhere with only cows for neighbours. I grew up in Guernsey so the coastline has always called to me. I have friends in Newquay so that seemed like the perfect place. The weather in Cornwall is very similar to the weather of my childhood – wild and freeing! When I told people about my decision, I was routinely warned of the crowds that descend each year, but as I moved at the tail end of lockdown, everything was still closed when I got here. For me that was perfect. It meant I had four weeks to find my feet and discover Godrevy, my favourite beach and Pentire Point for beautiful walks before the restrictions eased. I was also never going to let talk of tourist hordes put me off my dream destination; some places are popular for a reason. Already, I’m starting to feel like a local but it’s still very new and exciting and there are lots of places I am yet to explore. I’ve been told that accommodation was 98% booked up for this Easter which is crazy but I totally get it. Why wouldn’t you want to come here? That said, I didn’t notice the ‘Easter rush’ at all. You can definitely feel a buzz in the air but it’s not overwhelming. In fact, the beaches and car parks were deserted.
2020 was the worst year on record for tourism. Around the world, international arrivals plummeted by 74 per cent. The start of 2021 proved similarly dire: in January, tourist numbers were 87 per cent down on the same month in 2020. Shuttered borders, no-go lists and grounded planes have not simply put our holidays on hold: they have, at least temporarily, destroyed the livelihoods of many visitor-dependent communities. Some 100-120 million tourism jobs have been put at risk. To ease this strain, many destinations have sought novel ways to win back visitors – from Covid immunisations with a side of luxury, to long-stay schemes, complete with a personal tour guide. The Maldives – where the total contribution of travel and tourism to GDP was 66 per cent in 2019 – is among those planning to offer foreign visitors a vaccine. The scheme has been dubbed “3V tourism”: Visit, Vaccinate, Vacation. Dr. Abdulla Mausoom, the Maldives minister of tourism, told Telegraph Travel: “We hope to offer vaccinations to tourists arriving in the Maldives from the third quarter onward this year. [The] 3V program is offered in appreciation of the trust and confidence tourists have in Maldives tourism.” Thus far, the country has administered enough doses to have vaccinated around 31.6 per cent of the population. With around 540,500 people it’s a less daunting feat than that of the UK’s: the archipelago nation is also, for tourism purposes, ideal for a socially distanced holiday. Private islands and overwater villas tempted back Britons last year while the Maldives had a stint on England’s travel corridor list. And it could be set for the “green list” this year: it meets the criteria of a strong vaccine roll-out and should be under consideration for the islands policy that Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said he wants to integrate into the holiday traffic light system.
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