Under the leadership of UKHospitality, the VATsEnough campaign brings together a coalition of the country’s hospitality and tourism businesses. They are calling on the Prime Minister to keep VAT low. UKHospitality says: “Lower VAT rates for hospitality and tourism have helped safeguard our workforce, kept our prices affordable for our customers and enabled us to contribute...
The Tourism Alliance (of which the NCC is a member) recently undertook a survey with UKHospitality, BBPA and ALVA, regarding the rise in VAT on tourism and hospitality. The results show overwhelmingly that the VAT reduction has been a lifeline to many tourism and hospitality businesses with the funding being spent on keeping the business...
In March 2021, the government announced an independent review to assess how Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) across England are funded and structured, and how they perform their roles, in order to establish whether there may be a more efficient and effective model for supporting English tourism at the regional level, and if so what that...
The de Bois review of Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) in England, commissioned by Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been published. The review examined and assessed how DMOs across England are funded and structured, and how they perform their roles, in order to establish whether there may be a more efficient and...
Bookings on The Camping and Caravanning Club’s network of campsites around the UK have doubled for September and October compared to what would normally be expected. The Club says the growing popularity of camping this autumn tops off a successful summer season in which it celebrated record membership of more than 350,000 households – or...
Immediate: 19 August 2021 The Wales Tourism Alliance (WTA) is calling for the introduction of a Register of Pop-Up Campsites to help councils manage unlicensed camp site accommodation across Wales. Although 56-day pop-up campsites are permitted under the Welsh Government’s relaxation of the General Permitted Development Order, the growth of new sites in some destinations has...
Omar Group has announced that production has commenced of a new range of premium holiday homes, in a new factory outside Ringwood in Dorset. Regal Holiday Homes (including certain assets and all the intellectual property), was acquired by the Group in 2020. The acquisition was significantly delayed by the pandemic, however this gave pause for...
Innovate UK has launched UK Transport Vision 2050, “an in-depth study that sets out what the UK transport system may look like in 2050 and outlines the likely steps along the way to achieving this”. The document predicts that, by 2050, UK transport’s consumption of petroleum products will fall by over 90%, while 90% of...
The entry deadline for the Tourism Awards across the south west and south east has been extended to 12 September. With many businesses working flat out, the organisers have extended the deadline for entry until midnight on 12 September, giving businesses from Cornwall to Kent a few more days to complete their entries after the...
The Camping and Caravanning Club has reached an all-time high of 350,000 household memberships for the first time in its 120-year history, as 2021’s peak camping season gets into full swing. This number equates to 778,000 individual members of the Club. From June 2020 to June 2021, more than 45,000 new households joined the ranks,...