{"id":1660,"date":"2010-08-13T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2010-08-13T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T16:30:46","slug":"pm-commits-to-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"PM commits to tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Prime Minister has pledged to make Britain one of the top five tourist destinations in the world.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nMr Cameron said the income generated from the \u00a3115 billion-a-year tourism sector was \u2018fundamental\u2019 to rebuilding the UK\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The PM was speaking at the Serpentine Gallery in London to an audience of representatives from the tourist industry, on Thursday 12 August. He said: \u201cTourism is a fiercely competitive market, requiring skills, talent, enterprise and a government that backs Britain. It\u2019s fundamental to the rebuilding and rebalancing of our economy. \u00a0It\u2019s one of the best and fastest ways of generating the jobs we need so badly in this country. And it\u2019s absolutely crucial to us making the most of the Olympics and indeed a whole decade of great international sport across Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cameron said that between 2008 and and 2009, UK had fallen from sixth to 11th place in the World Economic Forum\u2019s travel and tourism competitiveness ratings. If it was now to take advantage of the \u201chuge economic opportunity\u201d that was opening up and break into the top five, it needed to improve its international competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the new coalition Government was now committed to building the \u2018strongest possible tourism strategy\u2019 and ask the tourist industry audience to work with the Government to develop a tourism strategy by the end of this year. \u00a0\u2018I believe we can come together in a new nationwide effort to make this coming decade the best ever for tourism in Britain.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Number 10 News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.number10.gov.uk\/news\/topstorynews\/2010\/08\/pm-makes-speech-on-tourism-54491\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister has pledged to make Britain one of the top five tourist destinations in the world. Mr Cameron said the income generated from the \u00a3115 billion-a-year tourism sector was \u2018fundamental\u2019 to rebuilding the UK\u2019s economy. The PM was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}