Northern Ireland has launched a £290m economic recovery plan which focuses on four key themes:
- R&D and Innovation (£20m)
- Highly Skilled and Agile Workforce (£50m)
- Green Economy (£20m)
- Investment, Trade and Exports (£200m)
There is a wide range of tourism-related action in the recovery plan, including:
- Delivering the COVID Digital Innovation and Productivity Programme to support businesses across the tourism sector to enhance their digital capability.
- Delivering Crisis Management and Turnaround Fund support for tourism businesses
- Deliver a ‘Holiday at Home’ voucher campaign to stimulate demand from NI residents to staycation in NI in support of the tourism industry
- Deliver an “Experience Development Programme” to provide grant funding for tourism experience providers to help develop their businesses
- Accelerate the development of the Tourism Data Hub to support the industry with real time data to inform decision making.
- Delivery of a Website Development Programme for tourism businesses to receive capital grants for the upgrading of their websites to make them bookable online.
- Develop a sustainable regenerative Tourism Strategy for NI.
You can read more about the Economic Recovery Action Plan here.