The market intelligence available from the industry and tourism agencies indicates that the peak season produced mixed results. The good news is that the British market, traditionally our biggest market, has held up well with estimates of up to 6% growth in visitor numbers. This confirms the wisdom in the recovery strategy of targeting Britain as a market that could yield immediate and significant results this year. On the downside, visitor numbers from the United States have fallen and this has had a negative impact in those sectors and areas which depend heavily on this market. Estimates for mainland Europe show mixed results; Germany remains weak with some good results from the southern European countries. Overall, I believe that the outturn for this year will be better than originally expected with current forecasts suggesting a small percentage increase in visitor numbers which could bring us back to close to year 2000 performance.