TOURISM chiefs have launched a bid to encourage day-trippers to return to farm attractions in an area devastated by foot-and-mouth.
The Yorkshire Tourist Board said visitors to farm-based attractions would not pose any threat to animals there.
It is hoping parents will organise family trips to venues such as the Staintondale Shire Horse Farm, near Scarborough, and the Yorkshire Museum of Farming, near York.
Brian Moore, of the Yorkshire Farm Attractions Group, said: "It is vitally important to keep these attractions going. Often it is the only chance children have to see farm animals in their living environment.
"It would be a terrible shame if, having survived infection from foot-and-mouth disease, the animals fell foul of unnecessarily poor visitor numbers.
"Even though there may be no direct contact with the more susceptible animals, there is still plenty to see and do."
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