mark alston

entrepreneur, director of Blue Sky Resorts / Inspire Leisure. x holiday rep! martial artist and totally unpublished author.

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Really bad customer service from @Selfridges . Very disappointed ☹️

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@Selfridges really struggling to get any remote assistance! Emails bounce back, phones not answered and online chat just refer me customer services (who don’t answer). Advice please

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@OliverDowden @TourismsVoice Holiday parks remain closed, and have no income. However we are obliged to start repaying our CIBIL loans imminently. We need to re-open and get a few months trading behind us, before repaying the banks. Help!

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@jon_trickett @BorisJohnson @theJeremyVine

[mark alston @markals00588716]

#@RishiSunak My businesses are still closed by gvt decree and thus generating zero income. However we now have to commence CIBIL repayments? Needs a review?

[Wood Farm Charmouth @WoodFarmcp]

unlimited fresh air, contactless check in/out, pitches 6m apart.
If other hospitality gets the green light for 4th July, please can touring parks open as well? @chrisloder @BHHPAros @BHHPA @BorisJohnson #ProtectTourismJobs

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@jon_trickett @10DowningStreet @kevinhollinrake @RishiSunak

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

Dear @BorisJohnson

Campsites have weeks until autumn. To deny families the great outdoors & single them out for extended lockdown against scientific logic and international experience, is to sign their business death warrant.

⁦@10DowningStreet⁩ ⁦@michaelgove⁩

[mark alston @markals00588716]

All we ask for is clarity, so that we can respond to our customers...

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

“Whether Westminster’s refusal to follow NI 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿in providing clarity..when tourism can restart is indicative either of utter disdain or of absolute cluelessness...is unclear...every day of wait-and-see sends..businesses a step closer to the wall” @thetimes
https://t.co/lDLfpl2413

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@BorisJohnson @kevinhollinrake @BHHPA

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@HuddlestonNigel small holiday park businesses are on the edge! We need to re-open. Concerning messages about camp sites waiting longer? Tourers, motorhomes are self contained! Just need a water point! Less risk than a shop Please don’t bankrupt us @10DowningStreet @RishiSunak

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@HuddlestonNigel small holiday park businesses are on the edge! We need to re-open. Concerning messages about camp sites waiting longer? Tourers, motorhomes are self contained! Just need a water point! Less risk than a shop Please don’t bankrupt us @10DowningStreet @RishiSunak

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@mollyalston_x Gangsta’!

[mark alston @markals00588716]

@BorisJohnson @10DowningStreet c’mon Boris pleeeease give us a re-opening date for English holiday businesses. If marinas, beach huts, shops & schools are safe, Surely self contained & socially distanced caravans are too. More so!!! You’re going to destroy an industry ...

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 3 weeks for tourism to prepare to reopen in Wales, inc caravan parks where accommodation is entirely self-contained (with own kitchen & bathroom) ⁦@WelshGovernment⁩ ⁦@fmwales⁩

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Zoos are open, shops are open, beach huts & marinas? No probs! Cleaners can come into you home, estate agents too. But you can’t use your own socially distanced caravan & a whole industry (& supply chain) is being destroyed. GIVE US A DATE!

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

4 months no cash, facing 3 winters ⁦@CumbriaGill⁩ ⁦@cumbriatourism⁩ on why tourism biz need to save what’s left of the summer ⁦@BBCBreakfast⁩ ⁦@lakescaravans⁩ @10DowningStreet⁩ ⁦@RishiSunak⁩ ⁦@OliverDowden⁩ ⁦@HuddlestonNigel⁩

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Pleeeease give us a firm date so that we can communicate with our caravan owners! They’ve invested many £’000’s in their holiday homes & deserve some clarity.

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

Gordon Henerdson MP calls for the immediate opening of holiday parks given their natural social distancing to protect the economy of #CoastalTowns #ProtectTourismJobs

[mark alston @markals00588716]

This is madness! How can shops open & people cram inside shared buildings, but socially distanced caravans in the countryside are deemed unsafe?

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

Caravan parks won't be opening in England before July 4, despite calls to do so earlier

“worse in Wales where currently we have no prospect of opening at all. ⁦@fmwales⁩ has expressed his sympathy for our plight, but no more” ⁦@DailyMirror⁩ https://t.co/r7OSSJhQge

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Coronavirus: Government encourages 'staycations' to boost British tourism
https://t.co/hjEbCDYcNb

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Please can we get this date confirmed so that we can start making arrangements!

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

Thank you ⁦@OliverDowden⁩ ⁦@DCMS⁩ for your confirmation of the lower risks of self-contained accommodation. We are ready just as soon as you give the green light.

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

Huge thanks to @HuddlestonNigel and @DCMS for their support in today’s retail regs for England

Will help #ProtectTourismJobs & #ProtectCaravanJobs whilst holiday parks remain closed.

Guidance email sent to members.

[HARPA_UK @HARPA_UK]

.@ABaragwanth owner of Ayr Holiday Park in St Ives, Cornwall, said: “We are usually open 365 days of the year.

“It’s the first time I’ve closed the park in my 30 years in charge.

“This April, my income was down 96 per cent on last year.”

https://t.co/lR3G4EHlU4

[mark alston @markals00588716]

Hikers & picnickers etc turning up at our caravan parks, arguing that parks are open to the public & that they have a right of way etc! Having to pay security to keep them off & adhere to our enforced closure. Messaging needs to be clearer AND, re-open for caravan owners! @BHHPA