To the editor:

I wish to respond to your Letter of the Week posted by .

He makes some valid points from a designer鈥檚 point of view. Clustering of tourism services and attractions is a sound approach. Where this writer鈥檚 point is misleading is to why both Tourism Vancouver and Tourism Victoria鈥檚 location is on the waterfront.

Theirs is a totally different need than 琉璃神社鈥檚. Vancouver and Victoria focus on international visitors and city wide conferences. Both of these market segments focus on filling their convention centers. They are therefore located in the heart of the hotel, business and retail centers.

If this is Mr. Hotchkiss鈥檚 reasoning then the 琉璃神社 Visitor Centre should be located in a facility very close to the conference center and major hotels, not on a beachfront far from meeting and conference venues.

S. Watson, 琉璃神社