The Mayor of Tenby feels 'aggrieved' that the resort doesn't get more support from Pembrokeshire County Council's tourism team to promote the town. Speaking at Tuesday night's meeting of the town council, Clr. Mrs. Sue Lane said she felt that Tenby and the county in general was being 'short-changed' when it came to this matter. "Does anyone know who our tourism officer is for Pembrokeshire? Has anyone from this council ever met anyone from the county's tourism team?" she asked her fellow members. "I think there are three councillors around this table who can say they've met with someone from the tourism department... and that was 28 years ago! "An article online, on '30 secret small towns that look like fairy tales' that features Tenby, has over 88,000 shares on the net, whilst the town's harbour beach was voted the best in Europe recently - yet all this seems to be happening and promoted without the help of the tourism team. "We've proved that we can speak for Pembrokeshire as a town and achieve things at the international 'Communities in Bloom' competition held in Canada last year, where Tenby achieved a five-bloom status, but I expect to be better supported by the county's tourism team, and I feel very aggrieved that we're being short-changed," continued Clr. Mrs, Lane, who is also chair of the Tenby in Bloom committee. Her colleague, Clr. Mrs. Tish Rossiter, said that she did raise the issue a few weeks ago at a previous meeting. "Everyone seems to be heading down to Devon and Cornwall on holiday, and the M5 is always choc-a-bloc, but traffic sails through the M4, which beggars belief, so why is Pembrokeshire not getting enough help from the tourism department," she remarked. Clr. Mike Evans assured members that he was constantly arguing tourism's case at county council meetings, but as the nation's finances were in chaos, it might be something that town and community councils themselves would have to pick up in the future. "The downside was when the Welsh Government got rid of the tourist board, but a lot of local attractions are now part of the Pembrokeshire Tourism Association, so maybe we need to join that," he said. "Let's remember, though, that there is only one stand-alone Tourist Information Centre left in Pembrokeshire and that's in Tenby," added Clr. Evans. Councillors agreed that the county council's tourism marketing and development manager, Alan Turner, and a representative from the Pembrokeshire Tourism Association be invited to a future meeting for discussions. "These organisations need to work together more with us to achieve things," commented Clr. Mrs. Caroline Thomas.