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ABTA presents tourism report to MPs
ABTA went to the House of Commons last night to present a new document on the importance of the tourism industry.
Called ‘Valuing the UK’s Tourism Mix’, the paper was launched at a reception with Tourism Minister Hugh Robertson MP, John Penrose MP and ABTA CEO Mark Tanzer, plus over 150 MPs and industry figures.
The paper details how the three sectors of the industry – domestic, outbound, and inbound – are linked and outlines four key priorities for the Government to create jobs and growth in the industry as a whole. These are:
1. Strategic infrastructure support
2. Creating a more competitive product
3. Good regulation for confident customers and businesses
4. Promotion of travel and tourism as a key employer
Tanzer said: "Tourism is the UK’s fifth largest industry and has enormous potential to help create jobs and economic growth.
“The Government has an important role to play in ensuring businesses can continue to deliver a competitive product to a confident consumer base.
“Focusing Government support on just one part of what is a highly integrated industry is not an effective solution – it is policies that cut across the UK’s tourism mix to provide an economic boost to the whole industry that will deliver the jobs and growth we know tourism is capable of."
The paper is available to download from www.abta.com/TourismMix.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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