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- Bad service and grumpy Britons put jobs at risk
- Tourism chief condemns high prices and shoddy service that jeopardise up to 50,000 jobs in hotels and restaurants Tourism earnings predicted to fall by Pounds 4bn Shoddy service and high prices are putting foreign visitors off visiting the UK, which is threatening thousands of jobs during the...
- Research articles 2009-01-08
- Recession to cost 11bn [pounds sterling] in tourism
- A recession could cost 11bn [pounds sterling] in lost revenue through tourism, according to a study for VisitBritain, conducted by Deloitte. Rashid Bashir, the author of the report and a senior economist at Deloitte, said: "The Visitor Economy is critical to Britain and should not be taken for granted....
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- VisitBritain calls for spring investment
- VisitBritain is calling for funding to launch a spring promotion campaign, after figures showed a 3% year-on-year drop in visitor numbers this summer. Visits dropped to 9.3 million during the peak months of July to September and spending decreased 2% to 5.1bn [pounds sterling], according to the latest statistics....
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- Tower leads UK-wide rise in attractions visits
- Visits to visitor attractions in Britain have grown a further 3% in the last year, according to the 2007 Visitor Attractions Survey from VisitBritain. The Tower of London was the most popular paid-for attraction in 2007 with over 2 million visits, followed by St Paul's Cathedral (1.6 million visitors)...
- Research articles 2008-11-01
- VisitBritain chair warns of challenges to growth
- VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, has published its annual review of 2007/8, showing how its market intelligence and global reach has enabled the agency to continue a high level of performance against challenging market conditions. During 2007 visitor numbers from traditional markets came under pressure from the combined effects...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- VisitBritain restructures
- VisitBritain has announced more changes to staffing as part of its restructuring. The changes respond to the increased devolution of public sector responsibility for tourism to the regions, as well as to the recent cut in government funding for VisitBritain, and will be implemented by April next year. ...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- *Tourism boss laments cuts
- Business News IN BRIEF Christopher Rodrigues, chief executive of the tourism agency VisitBritain, which promotes attractions such as the Globe Theatre, above, said plans to cut its budget by a fifth were "extremely disappointing". The reductions show a "continued lack of support," he added
- Research articles 2008-09-16
- Tourism funding row is reignited
- UKinbound has attacked the government's declaration that the travel industry should be responsible for marketing the UK in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games, reigniting the furore over the Departure of Culture, Media and Sport's decision to cut funds to VisitBritain. Stephen Dowd, chief executive of UKinbound,...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- VisitBritain to assess green tourism credentials scheme
- VisitBritain has begun evaluating its Green Start pilot scheme, aimed at helping tourism bodies become more environmentally friendly. The tourism body set up Green Start in March and signed up 200 companies from across the UK, ranging from attractions to hotels, all of which expressed interest in getting guidance...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Secret Britain
- SUMMER SPECIAL: PART II Get off the beaten track. David Randall guides you to the best places in the country for wildlife, heritage and scenery that have managed to stay under the radar - until now Welcome to the second week of our series revealing some of...
- Research articles 2008-08-10
- Select Committee puts government back in firing line over tourism
- The government has been attacked over its decision to cut funding to the tourism sector in a Treasury Select Committee report published in July. The report said that the move to cut funding to VisitBritain by 18% by 2010/11 was "baffling" and that while it understood budget cuts at...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Cost-cuts target Americans
- LONDON -- Harry's Bar in Venice, a landmark where novelist Ernest Hemingway and other celebrities used to hold court, is offering a 20 percent discount on food for "American victims" of a bad economy. Britain's tourism agency, VisitBritain, is letting Americans buy discount cards in dollars so they...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- England's comedy hotspots pitched to Fawlty tourists
- LONDON AFP — Britain's tourism chiefs are playing up the famous native sense of humour by helping people find the places behind England's comedy heroes and heritage, in a new campaign unveiled Tuesday. VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, hopes its Comedy England campaign will get tourists visiting sites and...
- Research articles 2008-06-24
- Europeans cut prices for Americans
- LONDON -- Harry's Bar in Venice, a landmark where novelist Ernest Hemingway and other celebrities used to hold court, is offering a 20 percent discount on food for "American victims" of a bad economy. Britain's tourism agency, VisitBritain, is letting Americans buy discount cards in dollars so they...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- Visit Britain offers attractions the chance to make a 'Green Start'
- VisitBritain, the national tourism agency, has launched a new programme--Green Start--to help accommodation providers and visitor attractions in England take the first steps towards becoming sustainable businesses. The agency aims to encourage a rapid, widespread and significant increase in the adoption of sustainable tourism principles, while avoiding the burden...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- VisitBritain Taps Palisades MediaGroup for US Media Planning and Buying
- SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- VisitBritain, the UK's national tourism agency, has chosen Palisades MediaGroup to oversee all of the agency's media/marketing buying and planning that targets consumers in the US. The agreement is effective immediately. The national tourism agency is launching a major campaign early this spring in an...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Alliance attacks VisitBritain review
- The Tourism Alliance has agreed to contribute to the tourism review currently being undertaken by VisitBritain at the request of DCMS, but said it believes the "review is fundamentally flawed and will not resolve the structural and funding problems facing tourism". The Alliance believes that there are three main...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Scaling the heights: fundamentals of the leisure industry remain strong but the industry is far from near its peak potential writes Grant Hearn, Travelodge chief executive
- 2008 can be a year of change and a year of major growth for the UK leisure and tourism industry. Really. Despite some commentators predicting difficulties ahead for the economy I am confident about the future prospects for the sector. Those instincts are conditional on three factors--a continuation of...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- VisitBritain picks partners
- National tourism agency VisitBritain has appointed Grafenstein, Lifelike and CDP to create a new roster of agencies to help market Britain to potential visitors throughout Europe. Together, they will develop and implement marketing campaigns on a three-year contract across 18 European countries. Their work with all elements of the marketing...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- Tourism industry attacks VisitBritain cuts
- The government has announced that it will cut its funding for VisitBritain by 18% over the next three years, despite industry body warnings that without a modest increase in financing the country will not benefit fully from the 2012 Olympics. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport said that...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
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