Thursday, September 27, 2007

Public Toilet Tourism

Once again, we came across an article on a unique public restroom situation.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Charmin is, for the second holiday season, sponsoring free public restrooms in Times Square. Starting Nov 19th, the 20 restrooms will be open from 10am - 11 pm, seven days a week. Attendants will be in place to service the restroom between each use. Charmin reports that 420,000 people used the public restrooms during last year's holiday season.

That's a situation most cities in the world can only envy. Not only the number of people passing through Times Square, but that a company would sponsor a usually invisible public service as a marketing stunt.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

All you need to really create public restroom tourism traffic is to get a Senator to do something bad in one. Senator Craig, why don't you visit a bathroom at the Kissimmee airport. We hear they are very nice!