Guidance

Changes to the tourism landscape

Following the publication of the Prime Minister’s Five Point Plan for Tourism, we have announced a number of changes to strengthen co-ordination and collaboration across the tourism landscape.

From:
Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Rt Hon David Evennett
Published
23 May 2016
This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

Documents

The Tourism Landscape

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Details

The Government has made the following changes:

  • Establishing an Inter-Ministerial Group on Tourism to co-ordinate and oversee action across Government, in addition to holding regular meetings with Tourism Ministers in the devolved administrations to join up action to grow tourism throughout the UK

  • Re-vamping the Tourism Industry Council, bringing Government and industry together to deliver on tourism policy

  • Establishing a new Events Industry Board to co-ordinate and enhance the UK offer on events and exhibitions, with the aim of holding more world class events in the UK by 2020

  • Changing the governance arrangements of VisitBritain and VisitEngland, ensuring they work collaboratively to enhance and grow tourism in Britain and England

  • Announcing a new Discover England fund to incentivise England’s c. 206 destination organisations to join up to build world class tourism experiences and products across England

Updates to this page

Published 23 May 2016

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