I'm with Larry on this. Corkish is correct in saying it's a challenge though...and for many people (and competitors) it's becoming an insurmountable one.

If he's trying to say that the only visitors welcome on the IOM these days are the ones wealthy enough for the travel costs not to be an issue, then he'd better have a plan for sorting out the litter strewn coastline, run down town centres, a restaurant/catering trade that is mediocre at best and staffed by people with no professional pride and some frankly rather poor (and expensive) hotels, because people with plenty of money are used to very much better than the IOM is currently capable of supplying.

Despite all of the above I still love the Island but people like Corkish who appear to have a very tenuous grip on reality are going to bring the place down and soon...