THIS week our lovely city hit the national headlines.

Now as headlines go, it wasn’t the most snappy: ‘Salisbury ranked seventh-best city in the world to visit in Lonely Planet's best travel 2015’ – but it was true.

And not all national headlines can claim the same. In their travel guidebook for next year, Lonely Planet has compiled a list of top ten cities to visit, and we rank higher than Toronto and Vienna.

It’s very exciting and quite right that we should be included as we've got a lot to be proud of.

I never tire of the cathedral and, even though my visiting friends are an eclectic bunch and I cater my personalised tours for them accordingly, the cathedral is the one place where I take everyone.

Old Sarum is a windswept delight, and the Arts Centre has a special place in my heart because my teenage years were lived out there and it’s still one of my favourite places in the city.

However… we can’t just sit back and rest on our Magna Carta, and not actually invest in Salisbury ourselves.

Tourists generate £1.4 billion of revenue for the local economy every year, and hopefully our inclusion in Lonely Planet will generate lots more visitors, but we need to do something about it ourselves too.

Salisbury can sometimes feel like a museum, with people wandering round looking at everything, but local businesses are failing and post 5pm the streets are empty, which makes the city feel unloved.

I feel we need to engage with, and invest in, our lovely city more.

We drive to Bath or elsewhere for our shopping needs, and a lot of residents in their twenties-forties go to Bristol and London for their social life.

It would be great if the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta celebrations next year and the inclusion in Lonely Planet kick-started the kind of city pride and interest that could really help build our future, while celebrating the past.