Concise.pdf - Brugge Plus

year at 4 109,519,398.60. BRUGGE 2002
stayed nicely within the budget. We also
managed to increase the original, 1999,
pursued budget of 4 19,831,481.98
(BEF 800,000.000) to 4 27,167,034.02
(BEF 1,095,915,436).
This volume includes more positive
figures, which you can read in detail.
They are the result of our own research
work and of the impact study by WES,
carried out for the City of Bruges, the
Tourist Office for Flanders and BRUGGE
2002. In any case, the many contributors
to the BRUGGE 2002 project
deserve to be complimented for their
enthusiastic efforts to work out all
these results.
© JAN TERMONT & DIRK VAN DER BORCHT
Positive figures therefore, which give our vision for the future a positive touch.
BRUGGE 2002 got our own population enthusiastic and has attracted motivated visitors.
The project was beneficial for society and had a positive impact on the city’s
economy. Culture is important to Bruges – what is more, Bruges can now also be
important to culture. We shall therefore proceed on the road taken. Together with our
cultural policy coordinator, the new cultural partners and with a new organisation,
Brugge Plus. The vzw Brugge Plus will further shape our city’s cultural event policy.
This gives “Plus est en vous”, the motto behind BRUGGE 2002, a new meaning. We
look forward to 2005, a new stopover on the cultural journey for which BRUGGE 2002
has paved the way.
Patrick MOENAERT
Mayor of Bruges,
Chairman of BRUGGE 2002