Articles - January 2002

2002 - The Year that the Brits Re-discover Britain?
By Jeremy Aspinall, Senior King Communications Group FMD, the events of September 11th, and then one more plane crash on November 13th – from where may the next blow come? The UK tourism industry's casualties are already so high that it may take a number years, as many analysts predict, before the lost... more
Convention and Visitor Bureaux - Tapping the Potential of Business Tourism
By Tony Rogers, British Association of Conference Destinations Convention and visitor bureaux, usually partnerships of public and private sector organisations, play an increasingly vital role in the management and promotion of conference and business tourism in destinations throughout the world. Their operational... more
Managing Visitor Attractions: A Collaborative Approach
By Alan Fyall, International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University, Anna Leask , Napier University, Edinburgh In the current competitive environment where commercial partnerships are often the only way to survive in the marketplace, visitor attractions are beginning to test a number of collaborative strategies which offer solutions to problems and challenges,... more
Overseas Tourism to the UK in 2000
The source of these statistics is the Office for National Statistics' International Passenger Survey, which has been carried out continuously since 1964 and is the principal source of statistical information about the volume and value of visitor movement... more
Planning Green Paper - Implications for Tourism
By Michele Grant, Senior Consultant, L&R Consulting, Brian Human, Head of Policy and Projects, Cambridge City Council, Barbara Le Pelley, Principal Forward Planning Officer, States of Guernsey Island Development Committee Planning plays an important part in managing the impact of development on the environment as well as supporting sustainable economic development. Since, however, the present planning system has a number of flaws, the Government intends to conduct its... more
The Role of English Local Authorities in Tourism
By Nancy Stevenson, Senior Lecturer, University of Westminster Local authorities play an important role in developing policies to promote and shape the development of tourism in their areas. They carry a broad range of tourism activities such as promotion/information, planning, visitor and attraction management and... more
Rural Tourism: Post FMD, Will They Come Flocking Back?
By Haydn Morris At the height of the 2001 epidemic of Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD), which devastated Britain's rural tourism industry, the prospects for this sector looked extremely bleak. Many feared that it would take years to recover lost business. By the end of the... more
Tee Time – the Market for Golf Tourism
By Steve Beioley The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews or Tiger Woods, plus-fours or carbon fibre clubs? Whatever your image of golf, it is now undeniably a world-wide phenomenon, attracting huge media coverage and an estimated 50m players – and it all started... more
Transmanche - Contrasts and Connections
By Simon Curtis, Cheryl Mvula and Chris Bull The Transmanche Region, aiming to be perceived as a destination in its own right, is the location of a dynamic political partnership between Kent local authorities and the regional government of Nord-Pas de Calais, on whose agenda tourism features particularly... more