Government’s tourism review ‘flawed’

Source/Contact: Caterer Search, 28/01/2008

The Government’s review into tourism has been branded as “fundamentally flawed, limited in scope and ambition and ultimately redundant”.  The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is conducting a review into tourism spending and co-ordination, specifically focused on the role of marketing body VisitBritain.  But following a meeting between industry bodies and VisitBritain, the Tourism Alliance labelled the review as “inadequate to meet the strategic needs of the industry”.  The Alliance has called on the Government to undertake an independent review of the 1969 Tourism Act, which sets the overall structure of tourism support in the UK; and concentrate on urgently funding the tourism legacy strategy for 2012 Olympic Games.