Banksy's Dismaland 'gave Weston-super-Mare a £20m boost'

[muriel_volestrangler]

When Banksy's anti-capitalist show Dismaland closes its doors on Sunday, the irony that it will have generated an estimated £20m in extra revenue for its surrounding area has not been lost on traders.

Over the past five weeks, more than 150,000 people have visited the subversive theme park in a derelict seafront lido, which had been shut since 2000 and reopened in a blaze of publicity on 20 August.
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itself as offering "entry-level anarchism", and satirises the tourism and theme-park industries.

But, it is the town's tourist businesses that have reaped the benefit - to the tune of £20m, says Visit Somerset, more than three times what the trade body initially suggested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-34347681

Ahh, the ironies of capitalism ...

[Nye Bevan]

1. Ironic indeed.