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Falkland Islands attendance of Bird Fair in Egleton proved a huge success

“This coming season is looking very busy, attending events to promote the Falklands has proved well worthwhile”, pointed out Jenny Luxton

This year’s Bird Fair in Egleton, Rutland, had even more exhibitors than ever and was certainly worth Falkland Islands Holidays (FIH) attending, said Jenny Luxton of FIH who anticipated that the coming season is looking very busy based on the interest shown by visitors to the stands.

 Speaking to the Penguin News, Ms Luxton said many of the people who visited the stand had already been to the Falklands, but there were also plenty of others wishing to visit in the future.

“The profile of the Falklands as an un-spoilt wildlife destination where nature is free to roam undisturbed was enhanced by the presence of three stands representing the Islands, ourselves, Falklands Conservation and Falkland Islands Tourist Board“, said Jenny Luxton.

Over the three days there were four lectures delivered featuring the Falklands including one by Martin Beaton of Weddell Island and one by Falklands Conservation volunteer Margaret Carr.

Bird Watchers can see most species wondering around the Falklands on a daily basis on various destinations and ”we get many people who return for this reason alone, and the Bird Fair highlighted this with the very informative talks from Martin, Weddell Island and Margaret from Conservation“.

The talks, “also promoted the Falklands as a unique destination and hopefully many people have now put it on their ‘bucket’ list of places to visit,” said Jenny.

The FIH representative emphasized that there was a great deal of interest in the Falklands as a holiday destination, where nature is indeed in charge.

”Photographers were particularly keen to visit because they know as long as they adhere to the Country Code of practice they can be very close to the wildlife for hours on end without disturbance, waiting for “that” lifetime shoot“, pointed out Jenny.

Likewise a lot of Companies have been selling the Falklands for many years and there are more wishing to, which is considered very encouraging.

”This coming season is looking very busy, attending events to promote the Falklands has proved well worthwhile“, pointed out the Falkland Islands Holidays representative.

The tremendous interests shown over the three-day event is very welcome having had a couple of years when people due to economics didn’t travel so much.

”Many of our visitors have been before and come again or have visited on cruise ships and had a taste and return to fulfill their holiday of a lifetime in our beautiful Islands brimming with wildlife”, concluded Jenny Luxton.