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THE demise of Welcome to Yorkshire this month has left me with a mix of sadness and hope. Sadness about what happened, hope that there is a desire to “do something”.
FOLLOWING the tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire going into administration on Tuesday, March 1, I contacted Craven District Council to see if it…
There was no doubt in recent months that Welcome to Yorkshire had lost the plot to such an extent that it had signed its own death warrant. But will Tuesday’s decision to put it into administration and replace it with a grey, publicly-led organisation restore our region’s status as Britain’s premier destination? Or will it mire tourism forever in a morass of red tape?
PRESSURE on the finances of Yorkshire households and businesses will be felt even more acutely in the tourism sector where VAT will return to its pre-pandemic rate of 20 per cent next month unless Chancellor Rishi Sunak acts in the Spring Statement.
From: John Pennington, West Riddlesden Hall, Keighley.