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So long, and thanks for all the fish.(Inside track)(Editorial)
As you may know by now, this will be my last issue as editor of Leisure Report, and it's with some sadness that I say goodbye to the sector. I've genuinely enjoyed working in 'UK Leisure Plc', which I think is, by and large, well run, and gets a lot of things right.
I'd like to thank all the contributors to the journal over the past few years, especially our regular columnists and sponsors, without whom we couldn't have enjoyed gala events such as the Leisure Report Awards (see p12/13), and all of you who have helped with stories, rumours, gossip and the occasional cold hard fact.
I won't be leaving the industry for good, however, and when I say 'thanks for all the fish' it's because I'm still enjoying playing online poker, a hobby I took up while researching the field in its early days for this title.
For those of you who are interested, I am planning to write a daily 'leisure blog', and for details of this you can contact me directly by emailing duncanjamesrowe@yahoo.co.uk
For those of you who aren't, I'd like to wish you good luck for the troubled times ahead. My own personal view is bleaker than most by nature--I am a journalist after all--but I fear the impending recession will be longer and harder than at first suspected. Some companies that I know to be well run are already showing signs of distress, and while the weaker in the herd will be picked off (was anyone really surprised about Woolworths?) it seems certain that there will ...
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