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Post by MyAdia on May 14, 2012 8:28:14 GMT -5
I suspect that they are building up to have their own wedding exhibit tour the world, once the grace exhibit has been flogged to death in the last village willing to receive it.... They wouldn't do that because contrary to last summer's hype how well the wedding exhibit was doing (claiming all sorts of visitors records were broken), there wedding exhibit attendance really was NOT record breaking. There was an Monaco Telecom article (I'll post in the next post) summing the yearly attendance at the Oceanographic Museum and the attendance only increased by 15,000 from the previous year. That small increase is worse than it seems because last summer, the PACA region saw a major increase in summer tourism. So, basically, the wedding exhibit distracted tourists instead of attracted them. I predicted this was going to happen because Monaco threw their number one tourist attraction under the bus to con people into thinking that Albert's $75 million trashy wedding was not as a colossal failure as it REALLY WAS. Instead of emphasizing the increased number of tourists was due to the actual aquarium, the Director Robert Calcagno kept going to the press saying it was due to the wedding exhibit - which was not true. People didn't travel to Monaco with their children to visit the museum to see PHOTOS of Albert and Charlene's wedding, especially since hardly anyone cared to come to Monaco to see the wedding in person. Every other museum in the riviera region reported record number of visitors from the summer and onward to the end of the year. After the increased in summer attendance, other cities' museums followed through with more advertisement about their museum features - except Monaco. The Director of the Oceanographic Museum instead decided to promote Albert and Charlene and followed up with the promotion of royal ass-kisser Stephane Bern's book about the most expensive wedding failure.
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Post by MyAdia on May 14, 2012 8:46:32 GMT -5
Here's the link to thread about th wedding exhibit and the first post I made about the campaign to promote Albert's trashy but expensive street wedding failure as a big success for Monaco. Every week that made similar updates increasing the number of attendance claiming up to 200,000 visitors in just 50 days. However, their numbers just doesn't jive with the total ending numbers for the year in this January 2012 Monaco telecom article.
Oceanographic Museum: attendance record in 2011
by N. Massa January 4, 2012
As is often the first days of the year is an opportunity to review! Today we look at the figures of the Oceanographic Museum! Boosted by the success of the exhibition "History of the Royal Wedding" the Oceanographic Museum is thriving. More ...
380 000 visitors have crossed the threshold so monumental Oceanographic Museum this year to go to meet key moments of marriages. An extraordinary number that affects the general attendance of the place: more than 15,000 additional visitors in 2011. 17% more visitors compared to 2009 (573,319 visitors), nearly 3% compared to 2010 (654,895 visitors), an exceptional year of the Centennial Museum and the exhibition Damien Hirst. Note also the significant growth in ticket matched "+ Palace Museum": 60,000 tickets sold (46,000 in 2010). Not bad, but the attractiveness of this mecca of culture Monaco is also measured with the courage to question the cultural policy. The new team led by Robert Calcagno has dusted off the myth to make it accessible and current in phase with the times. A few examples suffice to illustrate the point: The art exhibition "Oceanomania" Mark Dion. Original concept hosted on two sites, in collaboration with the New National Museum of Monaco.But also, the scientific exhibition "Mediterranean, beautiful, fragile, living," which opened in November 2011 continued in 2012. Finally, openings and exceptional night to visit the Museum otherwise. Specific programs for school holidays, with a range of activities related to the sea Finally, the museum has an international reputation affirmed with hosting major events for environmental purposes! The Monaco Blue Initiative (MBI 2) on the theme of Marine Protected Areas, the International Monaco and the Mediterranean (RIMM), Workshops Agency International Energy Agency (IAEA) on the oceans, or those of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and finally, the meeting of the highest officials of the preparatory process of the "Rio +20" next Conference of United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD - Rio de Janeiro - June 2012) are perfect illustrations of sealing the renewal of a historic site.
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Post by paca on May 14, 2012 9:58:48 GMT -5
I suspect that they are building up to have their own wedding exhibit tour the world, once the grace exhibit has been flogged to death in the last village willing to receive it.... They wouldn't do that because contrary to last summer's hype how well the wedding exhibit was doing (claiming all sorts of visitors records were broken), there wedding exhibit attendance really was NOT record breaking. There was an Monaco Telecom article (I'll post in the next post) summing the yearly attendance at the Oceanographic Museum and the attendance only increased by 15,000 from the previous year. That small increase is worse than it seems because last summer, the PACA region saw a major increase in summer tourism. So, basically, the wedding exhibit distracted tourists instead of attracted them. I predicted this was going to happen because Monaco threw their number one tourist attraction under the bus to con people into thinking that Albert's $75 million trashy wedding was not as a colossal failure as it REALLY WAS. Instead of emphasizing the increased number of tourists was due to the actual aquarium, the Director Robert Calcagno kept going to the press saying it was due to the wedding exhibit - which was not true. People didn't travel to Monaco with their children to visit the museum to see PHOTOS of Albert and Charlene's wedding, especially since hardly anyone cared to come to Monaco to see the wedding in person. Every other museum in the riviera region reported record number of visitors from the summer and onward to the end of the year. After the increased in summer attendance, other cities' museums followed through with more advertisement about their museum features - except Monaco. The Director of the Oceanographic Museum instead decided to promote Albert and Charlene and followed up with the promotion of royal ass-kisser Stephane Bern's book about the most expensive wedding failure. most museums in the region are free. Only in MC you need to pay. In Nice you can go to the CHagall, matisse and other museums year round for free. They do have generally low attendance from people in the region. Residents are mostly not interested in culture. They make it for a picnic in the parc around the matisse museum, but rarely inside. You will mostly find tourists inside, a lot of them Germans who are thrilled to find the museums free of entrance. The oceanographic Museum is attractive to people due to the fish and because a lot of people grew up with the documentaries of Jacques Cousteau. The next generation will not have that in mind, so they will see numbers dwindle in years to come. They have a Hirst friend exhibit there this year though honestly I don't see the connection to the museum, apart from the title of the exhibit. They really need to find a new angle to make the museum more attractive. There are experts they can consult. They need to draw more families, especially from the region. They need to lower the prices for families to be attractive, plus they need to adapt the museum more for kids without losing significance when it comes to the scientific aspect. There are a lot of things that can and need to be done. Most certainly not exhibits from weddings or some tasteless artists. They really do not need the likes of Hirst or koons in MC. They need to find a balance between attracting families and people with class. That obviously doesn't work when you have only one princess with a brain in MC.
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Post by paca on May 14, 2012 10:02:40 GMT -5
3% more visitors then in 2010, but 17% more then in 2009....guess that tells us that they had more visitors flocking to the museum before the wedding, then after. SO obviously the reasons for vistors to come was not the wedding....
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Post by countess on Jun 6, 2012 19:02:35 GMT -5
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Post by paca on Jun 7, 2012 2:54:32 GMT -5
I don't think this had anything to do with their wedding. they only had a few people there anyways to take pics of the scenary. I remeber though that there was an article at the time in MC matin with someone from the government all proud. There is lots of filming in the area. Currently Jean Dujardin is shooting another one in Beausoleil. He was already there for Brice de Nice. MC is a pretty common location for thrillers or criminal plots....guess that says it all...
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Post by countess on Jun 7, 2012 10:17:45 GMT -5
LOL i just love irony and a cartoon is just too funny because that is what moronaco is now a cartoon, a farce, a joke
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Post by paca on Jun 7, 2012 12:23:47 GMT -5
I am afraid Madagascar is better though. There are some mistakes though. The uniforms of the police are not Monegasques. I guess they thought that Americans would otherwise not realize that MC is surrounded by the South of France. I would have to see the movie, but I think in the chase they did only use certain images from MC that people may recognize or look interesting. The way it is cut, it doesn't look as if you could actually drive through MC that way. It is not relevant to the story of course, just saying... It is an MC that does not exist that way....
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Post by axelle on Jun 7, 2012 21:01:42 GMT -5
LOL i just love irony and a cartoon is just too funny because that is what moronaco is now a cartoon, a farce, a joke I agree!
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Post by paca on Jun 15, 2012 9:33:52 GMT -5
Since they were making so much noise about the impact of the wedding on tourism and the SBM being THE company to benefit, I think that another bad year for SBM shows clearly how bad things are going. Last year they already had to announce incredibly bad numbers. This year it is another loss of 28 million. They say that gambling is stable and hotels are doing fine. So where are the losses coming from? ? They are obviously blaming the economy, but they have been doing that for years. They do that when the economy is officially bad and even when it is officially getting better. Then they claim it has not yet brought back the tourists etc They still have not admitted that in spite of everything they have done and claimed would be so helpful, they are completely clueless. They fall for everyone who claims to have a miracle for them in store and then pay them millions with less then zero results. They still don't realize that MC needs a complete overhaul. Instead they keep doing what they have always been doing and worse. www.monacomatin.mc/derniere-minute/mauvais-resultats-pour-la-societe-des-bains-de-mer-de-monaco.900634.html
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Post by countess on Jun 15, 2012 10:58:53 GMT -5
This year it is another loss of 28 million. ROFL yeah the trashy and faTal show is really bringing in the bucks TOTAL FAIL!! i kinda tired of watching the ship sink, how long until this farce is over??? maybe then they'll make it into a musical, i can only hope it ends like Evita
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Post by paca on Jun 15, 2012 12:03:06 GMT -5
LOL they won't cry for her in MC though
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Post by MyAdia on Jun 16, 2012 6:52:26 GMT -5
Since they were making so much noise about the impact of the wedding on tourism and the SBM being THE company to benefit, I think that another bad year for SBM shows clearly how bad things are going. Last year they already had to announce incredibly bad numbers. This year it is another loss of 28 million. They say that gambling is stable and hotels are doing fine. So where are the losses coming from? ? They are obviously blaming the economy, but they have been doing that for years. They do that when the economy is officially bad and even when it is officially getting better. Then they claim it has not yet brought back the tourists etc They still have not admitted that in spite of everything they have done and claimed would be so helpful, they are completely clueless. They fall for everyone who claims to have a miracle for them in store and then pay them millions with less then zero results. They still don't realize that MC needs a complete overhaul. Instead they keep doing what they have always been doing and worse. www.monacomatin.mc/derniere-minute/mauvais-resultats-pour-la-societe-des-bains-de-mer-de-monaco.900634.htmlThank you Paca, these results so belong in this thread! What's really significant is the net loss of 28.4 million euros ($35,889,080) - almost double that of last year's losses! Double. Thus, Moanco is doubling its decline yearly. So much for the wedding effect and the "Charlene Effect" boast by the press. Actually, there is an effect - it is NEGATIVE!Recall's Albert's interviews with the local paper - that his wedding was an investment in Monaco's future - droves of tourists were supposed to flock to the "capital of romance" due to the glamour and elegance that Albert and Charlene exude. How's that working for you Al? Seriously, Albert has fired people left and right due to the failed predictions that he himself boasted would happen because of his wedding. Yet the main two culprits of this catastrophic exorbitant shamefully expensive wedding - he and Charlene - are untouchable and unaccountable. Albert and his crass and tacky bride are the worse image for Monaco - and they cannot face this fact.
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Post by MyAdia on Jun 16, 2012 7:12:38 GMT -5
Obviously, Albert was advised (I believe ill-advised) by someone to hold off he announcement of SBM losses on the day that he and Charlene inaugurate Condamine Market. I guess the thought process was to try to temper the consequences of the bad news with an image of hope and progress because of the new market. But, what I see and others might also, is that Albert is still trying to sell the image of Charlene (as he did with the wedding) as the "New Grace" and thus a solution to Monaco's high end tourism problem. Seriously, with the enormous amount of photos released especially of Charlene for the Condamine Market event (as opposed to the last few months' events) Albert is still advancing on the delusional belief that Monaco can advance on Charlene's image as it did on Grace's image in 1956 (almost 60 years ago!). Memo to the Jackass Albert - the sycophantic glossy press, your flunkies and advisers who you paid millions to - like Jean-Luc Mano, Jerome Revon and Stéphane Bern who told that you marrying Charlene and Charlene herself would attract people to Monaco and thus boost Monaco's economy LIED! Seriously, dude wake up before your country totally sink. This model that you are advancing - Charlene's as the "New Grace" is a joke and have not and will never work. Seriously, on this cover Charlene looks like a man in a dress wooden puppet that Albert is propping up and saying - "Forget those bad numbers reflecting Monaco's steadily catastrophic decline. Look, at my solution to all of Monaco's problems - the "New Grace."
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Post by paca on Jun 16, 2012 7:48:33 GMT -5
Rofl and they chose the pic where trashy looks as if she was grabbing the crotch of the ministre d'etat....holding him by his balls And that under extremely bold letters announcing SBM failure....
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Post by MyAdia on Jun 16, 2012 7:59:51 GMT -5
Rofl and they chose the pic where trashy looks as if she was grabbing the crotch of the ministre d'etat....holding him by his balls And that under extremely bold letters announcing SBM failure.... OMG, it does look like she is grabbing his balls - didn't notice it ! Hell, why not, she already has Albert by the balls why not in crease her collection.
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Post by paca on Jun 16, 2012 8:25:11 GMT -5
Obviously, Albert was advised (I believe ill-advised) by someone to hold off he announcement of SBM losses on the day that he and Charlene inaugurate Condamine Market. I guess the thought process was to try to temper the consequences of the bad news with an image of hope and progress because of the new market. But, what I see and others might also, is that Albert is still trying to sell the image of Charlene (as he did with the wedding) as the "New Grace" and thus a solution to Monaco's high end tourism problem. Seriously, with the enormous amount of photos released especially of Charlene for the Condamine Market event (as opposed to the last few months' events) Albert is still advancing on the delusional belief that Monaco can advance on Charlene's image as it did on Grace's image in 1956 (almost 60 years ago!). Memo to the Jackass Albert - the sycophantic glossy press, your flunkies and advisers who you paid millions to - like Jean-Luc Mano, Jerome Revon and Stéphane Bern who told that you marrying Charlene and Charlene herself would attract people to Monaco and thus boost Monaco's economy LIED! Seriously, dude wake up before your country totally sink. This model that you are advancing - Charlene's as the "New Grace" is a joke and have not and will never work. Seriously, on this cover Charlene looks like a man in a dress wooden puppet that Albert is propping up and saying - "Forget those bad numbers reflecting Monaco's steadily catastrophic decline. Look, at my solution to all of Monaco's problems - the "New Grace." i48.tinypic.com/2r6gvg3.jpgwhat you say might have been there thought but The superbold headline drowns what has been written underneath. Then you see the pic of Albert, his wife, the minstre d'etat and the mayor. And it looks as if trashy holds the mayor by the balls. Basically what the paper is doing here and the readers will automatically do, is to associate those four immediately with the SBM loss. All these people stand for the wedding disaster, all these people are related to MC not doing well. And please note the absence of a very particular group: the conseil national. How come the president is not in the pic with them? Yes the market is responsibility of the city, still it is an official event. IMO there is a very particular reason. The conseil national, all parties, does not want to be associated with what Albert does. We also didn't see Valeri who used to not miss any opportunity to get his pic in the paper, whilst he was still president of the CN. It has become awfully quiet arround him. IMO he thought it would be a good move for him to get into government. But he is pretty cunning. His party is running the CN still. Keeping them in the background will allow him, to eventually, when he thinks it is good for him, resign and return to the CN. The CN is putting itself in a very good position to press for more power in the decision making process as they keep their distance from the government. If they are seen as the only one having the good of MC at heart they will get the support of the Monegasques and that way it will be easy to take all power off Albert and his government. And Valeri is the only one at present in MC with enough backing with the monegasques. But only if he does not get associated too much with the government decisions; Also it provides them with access to info that he didn't have as president of CN. IMO Proust thought he was helping Albert by getting Valeri, who constantly attacked the government, into the gouvernment. And for a certain period that is probably true. He bought him time. But he also managed to give him access to all the info he needs to bring Albert down when the time is right. Valeri wants to run MC. And not according to what Albert says, but according to what he wants.
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Post by countess on Jun 16, 2012 10:14:06 GMT -5
LOVE THE headline above the silly non dynamic duo, it scream FAILURE!!!! ;D
doubled the losses OMG that's not sustainable and i lay it at the feet of faTal and trashy, he may have been ill advised but he's the ruler and the ultimate blame
Valeri, who constantly attacked the government, into the gouvernment. And for a certain period that is probably true. He bought him time. But he also managed to give him access to all the info he needs to bring Albert down when the time is right. Valeri wants to run MC. And not according to what Albert says, but according to what he wants
i don't know Valeri but i wish him all the luck in the world!
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Post by paca on Jun 16, 2012 10:35:43 GMT -5
I don't wish Valeri on MC either. It's the one with the toupe. Though I do think he may do better then Albert. But at least he was elected and that to me makes the big difference. If people vote for him, then it is their choice. In MC people know each other. They keep an eye on each other and you know who is doing what and whom with. SO if they would vote for him then what he does is what they want. But if it doesn't work out, then at least they can vote for someone else.
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Post by agentf on Jun 16, 2012 11:56:28 GMT -5
Rofl and they chose the pic where trashy looks as if she was grabbing the crotch of the ministre d'etat....holding him by his balls And that under extremely bold letters announcing SBM failure.... OMG, it does look like she is grabbing his balls - didn't notice it ! Hell, why not, she already has Albert by the balls why not increase her collection. That's too funny. Do you think the paper is having fun at their expense? ;D
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