Do you have a view about skills and the visitor economy and the priorities that will deliver growth? A Skills Action Plan has been published by VisitEngland for consultation and sets out the priority actions to be implemented by the industry to help achieve 5% growth, year on year, in the value of tourism. Go to www.englandtourismframework.co.uk/news.aspx for further information and to access the Action Plan. Please respond by the 1 March 2012, we'd be interested in hearing about what actions LEPs can support.
Sorry, but I do not believe that tourism is the answer. Whilst tourism is highly advantageous in London and regionally there are pockets of where tourism can be exploited, I do not regard it as a major development in the growth of the economy. Germany, turned to production - the Volkswagon car - affordable to all citizens. Turn to history to find the answers and those nations which faced bankruptcy after the war and find out what they did.