Don’t drive tourists to the north-east – we won’t cope | Letters

Don’t drive tourists to the north-east – we won’t cope | Letters

Tom Carr says the region does not have the infrastructure to support unbridled tourism, while Mary Finn is keen to see the Lindisfarne Gospels come home

In response to your editorial (The Guardian view on the glories of the north-east: deserving of a wider audience, 29 March), the last thing we want is a deluge of tourists coming to spoil the beauty and tranquillity of this region.

While increasing numbers of visitors will bolster businesses that serve them, observing the static half-mile queue of cars trying to get into Alnwick Gardens at the weekend shows what the unbridled expansion of tourism will do to this region.

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