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16 hours ago A programme to maximise the long-term economic impact made by the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games has been unveiled. It is expected to attract up to an additional 39,000 visitors for the UK until 2027, with an estimated £12 million in visitor spend. The Business and Tourism Programme (BATP) will build on the profile created by the games to attract more visitors, trade, events and investment from key overseas markets into the UK. It will concentrate on nations and territories across the Commonwealth, plus the domestic UK market. The BATP will operate from early 2021 until the...

A new rail pass and vouchers for popular tourist attractions are at the heart of a plan to return domestic tourism to pre-pandemic levels by 2022 and international tourism by 2023.

The Government has unveiled its new Tourism Recovery Plan to help sector build back better from the pandemic, which includes benefits for the business events industry, such as investment in the sector around the Commonwealth Games

Minister of Tourism Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane addressed Parliament as part of the budget vote of her department. She said the Tourism Recovery Plan will be the main focus during the financial year. She would like to see the challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality addressed as part of the process. The main focus of the Department of Tourism during the current financial year will be on the implementation of the Tourism Sector Recovery Plan, Tourism Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane said during her department’s budget vote presentation to Parliament on Tuesday. The plan, which was de...

Menai Science Park (M-SParc) has secured SBRI Welsh Government funding for a Net Zero Farming project to create a low carbon solution for tacking weeds in agriculture, by working in collaboration with two of their tenant companies. Along with Aerialworx and 42able, M-SParc have used this funding to respond to the call for decarbonising the agriculture sector, by bringing technological innovations to the field to tackle the age-old issue of pesticide spraying. Their solution was The Green Eagle - a drone that identifies weeds and tackles them one by one; getting to the root of the problem....