Politics
Final Day of TT Consultation
Under the proposed schedule, there would be a 10 race programme.
Today is your last chance to contribute to a consultation into the future of the TT.
A second consultation was announced by Chief Minister Alf Cannan came after an original one, in 2021, which saw just 37 responses, of which just five were supportive of the plans.
Under the proposed schedule, there would be a 10 race programme, including a controversial idea to race on Mad Sunday and to move Senior Race Day to a Saturday.
Ahead of the June 2021 public consultation and the creation of the proposed 2023 race schedule, the DfE says it carried out ‘extensive online consumer research in Q4 2019 as well as specific research, in February 2021, into the fans’ experience of travel and accommodation’. This was followed up with more in-depth TT stakeholder focus groups that were held in May.Â
The research revealed that the existing TT schedule, the island’s travel capacity, accommodation infrastructure, costs factored against current economic climate, and the changing habits of customers are no longer compatible and no longer meet the needs of the event’s customers (some people call these customers “fans”).
