Tourism on the move

Friday 28th September 2007, 12:00AM BST.

JERSEY Tourism will move to modern new offices in Liberation Place this weekend and end a 60-year association with its landmark granite-faced headquarters in Liberation Square.

The Liberation Square building has been the focal point of the tourism industry for nearly six decades. Millions of visitors and Islanders have gone through its doors during that time seeking accommodation or information about events. Jersey Tourism marketing director David de Carteret said that he believed that the department moved into the existing building in the late 1940s. ‘We know that because the re-enactments from the Liberation in 1945 show that the building was then the Harbour Office. The Tourism Law came into force in 1948 and there was a Tourism department by then,’ he said. The new glass-fronted building in Liberation Place is at the Castle Street end of the island site development.

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