CATHOLIC VOICES MEDIA MONITOR: Financial benefits of papal visit 'will eclipse costs'

Sunday 5 September 2010

Financial benefits of papal visit 'will eclipse costs'

Catholic Voices coordinator Jack Valero has told the BBC that the financial benefit to UK cities will more than cover the costs to the taxpayer of the papal visit. (Hear his interview with BBC Five Live here). BBC Online quotes him:

He said a study for Glasgow City's marketing bureau had worked out that Glasgow and Edinburgh would accrue about £13m because of extra people visiting as well as the "media (and) advertising value" to the two cities.

Welcome to the Catholic Voices Media Monitor

This blog was created by the Catholic Voices project to record media coverage on the Church and related issues in the lead-up to the 16-19 September 2010 state visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the UK, as well as the visit itself and its aftermath.

It links to the good, the bad, the accurate and the inaccurate -- monitoring the journalism surrounding the visit. It also records what the Catholic Voices speakers' team, created to put the Church's case during the papal visit, has been saying in TV and radio studios, and in articles and other media.

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