The Voice of Tourism representing the UK tourism industry: The Tourism Alliance

Magazine columns

Kurt Janson has written columns for Destination UK and Leisure Opportunities.

Records 1 to 10 of 15

TICs Prove their Value (Leisure Opportunities - July)

Thursday 09 July 2009, 1:56 PM

A new report by VisitEngland shows that Tourism Information Centres play a strong role in developing local tourism economies.

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TICs Prove their Value

Thursday 01 January 1970, 1:00 AM

A new report by VisitEngland shows that Tourism Information Centres play a strong role in developing local tourism economies.

Self Catering Under Threat (Destination UK - June)

Thursday 09 July 2009, 1:50 PM

The proposed repeal of the FHL Rules represents a significant threat to self-catering sector and the rural and seaside communities that depend on the visitors that use this accommodation.

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Back To the Future (Destination UK - April)

Thursday 09 July 2009, 1:47 PM

The establishment of VisitEngland is tacit acknowledgement of the mistakes that Government has made in its restructuring of tourism over the last 10 years.

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Letter to MPs - Budget Puts Investment into the Wrong Sectors

Tuesday 05 May 2009, 11:37 AM

A letter to MPs from Bob Cotton OBE, Chairman, Tourism Alliance

Letter to MPs - How to Support Tourism

Friday 28 November 2008, 10:23 AM

A letter to MPs from Bob Cotton OBE, Chairman, Tourism Alliance

The Tsunami on the Horizon (Destination UK Article)

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 9:24 AM

I recently attended a UKinbound meeting to talk to their members about the state of the tourism sector. During the talk I produced a number of slides which showed the dire state of the US property market, the enormous growth in securitised mortgages and the resultant emergence of the toxic Collaterized Debt Obligations that are now choking the whole financial system.

Testing Times (Destination UK Article)

Wednesday 18 June 2008, 3:31 PM

Global tourism growth has averaged over 4% for the past 10 years. Fuelled by a strongly growing global economy and a boom in personal wealth it has shrugging-off the impacts of 9/11, the second gulf war, SARS and a host of other difficulties.