Continuing the series highlighting public bodies spending money on beermats, the latest council to do this are Rhondda Cynon Taff, now the love
www.loveponty.com url actually redirects to a site called
Pontypridd Regeneration at which readers can read how much public money is being spent in an attempt to regenerate the town centre. There is a brief list of
bars on the site but no descriptions of them or information such as food etc.
There is a far more extensive and informative non-taxpayer funded site about Pontypridd pubs here.
On the other side the
www.destinationrct.co.uk also redirects to another site
http://tourism.rctcbc.gov.uk/home.aspx which is far more useful and informative than the RCT Council PR site for Pontypridd. Of course the image above does not pander to local stereotypes either!
Now I can see why councils have to promote tourism -
the RCT tourism site does link to a useful heritage site but the LovePonty site does seem more of a PR stunt for the council, rather than dealing with actual visitors to the town.
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