FOLLOWING reports in local and national press, and TV news coverage about the closure of Thame’s Tourist Information
Centre, the mayor of Thame, Cllr David Laver, has issued a statement.
The statement reads:”The recent debate about the closure of Thame?s Tourist Information Centre (TIC) seems to be generating more heat than light. The TIC has over the years provided a valuable service to the town. South Oxfordshire District Council, for reasons which have been aired, has decided that it can no longer fund the centre.
“Over a long period, we as councillors have seen a benefit in combining all the information sources in Thame at the One Stop Shop. The present site in the Town Hall is limited for space. However, the Council has decided to set up a Tourist Information Point to provide local information services that the TIC used to provide. For this we will receive no additional funding.
“I recently picked up a tourist leaflet for Oxfordshire provided by the District Councils which gave the address for Tourist Information at the Town Hall. Someone seems to have anticipated this move.
“We do not feel that at present we have the resources to provide all of those services including Ticket Sales, but we will keep this under review. In the short term, it may be possible for Thame Players and others to set up a desk in the Town Hall manned by volunteers to sell tickets.
“Please be assured that Town Councillors would like to offer what assistance we can to all of the organisations within the town”.
NB Thame retailer, Keith Slater, has offered to act as a ticket agency for local entertainment groups from his shop, Essence, in Buttermarket Thame.
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