CLH News #215 August 2018

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ISSUE 215

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Editor's Viewpoint

AUGUST 2018

Hospitality & Tourism Sector Facing Jobs “Black Hole”

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The UK's vital tourism sector risks being overwhelmed by record number of visitors and growing skills gaps, council leaders warn. The UK’s tourism sector provides 3.1 million jobs, is worth £126 billion to the economy and generates £7 billion in tax from overseas visitors.

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Overseas visitors spend £22 billion annually in the UK and the tourism sector projects above average annual growth in spend of 3.8 per cent every year up until 2025. The Tourism Alliance has reported that 38 per cent of hospitality and tourism businesses are reporting that they are struggling to fill vacancies and it is getting increasingly harder to fill vacancies, while 21 per cent of businesses are reporting that the staff that they are employing lack essential skills. It is believed that an extra 1.3 million new employees will need to be recruited to cope with the rapid growth of tourism in the UK by 2024.

language skills. Deirdre Wells OBE, chief executive officer, UKinbound said: "The industry currently employs large numbers of workers from the European Union to fulfil these roles, but our members are reporting that many of their EU employees are starting to return home. "They are struggling to find replacements from within the British workforce, predominantly due to their lack of advanced language skills." In what looks likely to be a record summer for tourism, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said that councils are playing a leading role in boosting local tourism. For example:

This current warning follows a report by UKinbound which revealed a growing language skills gap facing the UK tourism industry which they said has been caused by a "combination of Brexit and the decline of language training in the UK.

• Cornwall Council has invested significantly in the growth of the creative and cultural industries as part of work to provide sustainable, well paid jobs and boost Cornwall’s tourism offer. This investment has helped establish Cornwall as the number one UK tourist destination, attracting 4.5 million overnight visitors and 14 million day trips a year and creating 58,000 regional jobs in the tourism supply chain. Cornwall is currently in the running for UK’s Best Holiday Destination for the tenth year running.

Research conducted by Canterbury Christ Church University highlighted a lack of capacity in the UK's education system to meet the shortfall in higher level

• Allerdale Borough Council will be hosting the ‘Allerdale Days in Manchester’ event on the 10 -11 August to promote Cumbria as a place to visit, live

and invest, as well as provide local businesses with the opportunity to sell their products in new markets. The event is part of the Allerdale Borough Council’s Business Growth Strategy which has been developed to boost business in the borough. • In 2017, Birmingham’s tourism sector celebrated the most successful year on record. Led by the West Midlands Growth Company and supported by the Discover England Fund, ‘England’s Waterways’ is a new project to inspire international visitors to explore the canal networks in Birmingham and the wider Midlands region. In 2022, Birmingham will host the Commonwealth Games, which will enable the city to continue to deliver positive results in the tourism market. • Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has announced plans to invest in the pier in order to increase the local tourism offer, and continue to attract a high number of visitors to the area. In autumn this year, work will start on the expansion of the penny arcade, and there are plans for a new visitor pavilion on the former Bowling Deck. Recent figures have shown that there were a total of 47,048 visitors to the world’s longest pier in May, compared to 37,349 recorded in May 2016. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3...)

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