People enjoy RWAS Winter Fair, survey reveals
More than 96% of visitors to the 2010 Royal Welsh Winter Fair said they would recommend it to others according to an on-line survey conducted after last year’s event. Nearly 71% also said they would be attending the Fair again this year when it takes place on the Royal Welsh showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, next month.
Nearly half of those who responded to the survey (49.1%) declared that they were satisfied with their visit to the Fair and 44.8% said they were ‘very satisfied’ with the experience.
Livestock – cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and poultry – were the biggest attraction for most visitors accounting for 40% of the overall interest. However, the popularity of the Winter Fair for its other attractions was also evident reflected by the return of 18.2% who visited the event to look for Christmas gifts in the many shops and stands for which the Fair is becoming increasingly well known.
The Food Hall, with its range of quality food and drink produced in Wales, was favoured by 18% of those visiting the Fair while 17.2% were mainly interested in the trade stands.
If the survey results are taken as an indication of what the RWAS may expect at this year’s Winter Fair, attendance should once again exceed 20,000 when it opens for two days on November 28. Unsurprisingly, most of last year’s visitors (18.1%) of those who took part in the survey came from Powys where the showground is located and there was strong support from other rural areas in Wales such as Carmarthen (9.5%) and Ceredigion (6.9%). As an attraction, however, the Fair also appeals to people from urban districts such as Rhondda Cynon Taf (6.9%) and counties across the Welsh border among them Shropshire (6.9%) and Hereford and Worcester (2.6%).
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