May
2
Tourism authorities all over the UK are all pretty chuffed with their predictions for a bumper year in 2009.
I’m not sure that they should be all that chuffed. Some of them are pretty poor and if the hotel industry in particular has a good year it has less to do with the efforts of tourism authorities and more to do with fate – or at least the combined delinquencies of our fatally flawed financial industry tripping hand in hand with inept government.
UK tourism is likely to be good until the end of the autumn. Tourism quangos will crow about the results and then the fun will stop. Come winter 2009/10 it is going to hurt and hurt a lot.
Anyway, now I’ve got that off my chest, let’s talk about who will feel the pain and who will feel – at worst - slightly queasy.
I’m not sure that they should be all that chuffed. Some of them are pretty poor and if the hotel industry in particular has a good year it has less to do with the efforts of tourism authorities and more to do with fate – or at least the combined delinquencies of our fatally flawed financial industry tripping hand in hand with inept government.
UK tourism is likely to be good until the end of the autumn. Tourism quangos will crow about the results and then the fun will stop. Come winter 2009/10 it is going to hurt and hurt a lot.
Anyway, now I’ve got that off my chest, let’s talk about who will feel the pain and who will feel – at worst - slightly queasy.
