I am a regular visitor to Bermuda (the most wonderful destination on Planet Earth)! I have travelled to Bermuda from England for the last 15 years and spend three weeks here every summer and I would like to add to the Tourism debate that I read about almost daily on your pages.

May I mention the astronomical airfare from the UK which at present is 759.60 or $1,115! I can fly to almost anywhere in the world for a lot less.

Every cold winter I call to make my reservation and each year yet another large rise in the fare. Due to this extortionate fare, many of my friends choose to go to inferior destinations and Bermuda misses out and soon we may have to as well.

Sadly, due to such high airfares there is less disposable income to be spent on doing my favourite things here in Paradise. Less money spent in your pubs and restaurants, less money spent on watersports and even less for my wife to spend shopping! Both myself and my friends would like to visit here more often but until the airline is made to charge a realistic fare, this wonderful Island will, I believe, receive less and less visitors from the UK.

Surely common sense dictates this problem needs to be sorted out sooner rather than later and not allowed to continue with big price-hikes year after year turning visitors elsewhere.

ALAN JOSEPH London, England