Coronavirus: Tourism Industry Update
Please follow the news reports and for latest advice regularly visit the Public Health Wales website and the Business Wales website
BULLETIN CONTENTS: Keep Wales Safe: guidance for tourism and hospitality businesses; Keep Wales safe: face coverings; Keeping visitors and Wales safe this summer; World Drowning Prevention Day – 25 July 2021; Enjoy the holidays and keep Wales safe this summer says Economy Minister; FREE bespoke service for employers: Disabled People’s Employment Champions; Deputy Minister issues “national call to arms” to plant more trees; National Forest for Wales: stakeholder toolkit; Counting down the days until Wales becomes the focal point for the world of food and drink; New plan to help see more Welsh food and drink products on retailers’ shelves; Working in hot temperatures guidance; Protecting young people at work; Changes to right to work checks from 1 July 2021; UK Government fund opens for bids from communities across Wales; Sale of halogen light bulbs will be banned from September 2021; Useful COVID-19 information.
Keep Wales Safe: guidance for tourism and hospitality businesses
Guidance for tourism and hospitality businesses to keep employees and visitors safe during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Please ensure that you are aware of and following the updated UKHospitality Wales Guidance in addition to the Guidance for Tourism and Hospitality businesses. (Please watch this short film to help you find your way around the guidance).
Information is also available on recent and upcoming changes.
As each premises is different, businesses should read all guidance to understand the measures to be considered to operate the business safely. For further information visit Gov.Wales.
Keep Wales safe: face coverings
Face coverings are still required in indoor public places and on public transport, and social distancing still applies indoors.
Download the latest free posters from our asset bank including the easy print poster Covid rules are still in place in Wales. These can be displayed within the public areas of your business.
Keeping visitors and Wales safe this summer
At an online session hosted by Visit Wales, tourism businesses had the opportunity to hear from the RNLI and Adventure Smart UK on how to help guests and visitors stay safer in the outdoors this summer.
You can access a recording of the webinar, the presentations, answers to questions raised, and useful safety information and toolkits on the Visit Wales tourism industry website.
World Drowning Prevention Day – 25 July 2021
This Sunday 25 July, the RNLI will be marking the first ever World Drowning Prevention Day – created by the UN to officially recognise that drowning is an important international issue. Use your social media channels and website to help your guests and visitors stay safer in the outdoors this summer:
Enjoy the holidays and keep Wales safe this summer says Economy Minister
As the summer holidays begin, Economy Minister, Vaughan Gething has visited (Thursday 15 July) Dŵr Cymru’s Llys y Frân Lake in Pembrokeshire to officially open its newly redeveloped visitor attraction and recreational facilities.
The new development will be a boost for the regional economy as it provides facilities where people can participate in water-based activities and new land-based activities. The project was backed with £1.7 million of European Regional Development Funds through the Welsh Government.
Read the announcement in full on Gov.Wales.
FREE bespoke service for employers: Disabled People’s Employment Champions
The Welsh Government has employed a network of Disabled People’s Employment Champions, supported by Business Wales Disabled People’s Employment Advisors, to provide advice, information and support to employers across Wales.
Any business in Wales interested in increasing the diversity of their workforce and finding out more about the many benefits of and support available for employing disabled people can contact the Champions at: DPEC@gov.wales.
Visit the Business Wales website for more details.
Deputy Minister issues “national call to arms” to plant more trees
The Deputy Minister for Climate Change Lee Waters issued a “national call to arms” to ask the people of Wales to help to deliver real change to tackle the climate emergency.
According to the Climate Change Committee, Wales needs to plant around 86 million trees over the next nine years to achieve its ambition of reaching net zero by 2050. The Deputy Minister was visiting Stump up for Trees a small charity planting 100,000 native broadleaf trees in an area called Bryn Arw, near Abergavenny – it is the first significant tree planting on common land in Wales.
Read the announcement in full on Gov.Wales.
National Forest for Wales: stakeholder toolkit
A series of social media posts that you could share with your networks as we launch The Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG). We are encouraging all our stakeholders to join the conversation as we launch The Woodland Investment Grant (TWIG) as part of the National Forest for Wales Programme – a connected network of forests which will span the length of Wales.
Read the announcement in full on Gov.Wales.
Counting down the days until Wales becomes the focal point for the world of food and drink
The countdown is on with less than 100 days to go until the return of Wales’s largest international food and drink event, BlasCymru/TasteWales. Organised by Food and Drink Wales, the Welsh Government’s Food Division, Blas Cymru is a national and international trade event and conference, providing an opportunity for buyers and producers to develop new business.
BlasCymru/TasteWales 2021 held at the International Convention Centre (ICC Wales), The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport on 27 & 28 October 2021, is a two-day event and will allow food buyers and industry professionals to meet with leading Welsh food and drink businesses. The event will be approximately fifty per cent in person and fifty per cent virtual.
Read the announcement in full on Gov.Wales.
New plan to help see more Welsh food and drink products on retailers’ shelves
A new plan to help food and drink companies across Wales get their products on the shelves of major retailers was launched by the Welsh Government on 21 July.
The Food and Drink Wales Retail Plan has been developed alongside an industry expert group and aims to see the turnover value for the food and drink industry in Wales grow proportionally more than the UK as a whole. It has eight key objectives including creating a stream of new entrepreneurial food and drink businesses and accelerate the growth of companies with a turnover of more than £10m in the retail sector.
Read the announcement in full on Gov.Wales.
Working in hot temperatures guidance
With temperatures soaring in parts of Wales this week, make sure you have the right advice and guidance to work safely. It is important to remember the risks of overheating when working in hot conditions. The Health and Safety Executive has plenty of guidance on workplace temperature.
You can find more details on the Business Wales website.
Protecting young people at work
When employing a young person under the age of 18, employers have the same responsibilities for their health, safety and welfare as they do for other employees. Young people are more likely to be new to the workplace and could be facing unfamiliar risks. Workers are as likely to have an accident in the first six months at a workplace as they are during the whole of the rest of their working life. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have a wide range of relevant guidance available.
You can find more details on the Business Wales website.
Changes to right to work checks from 1 July 2021
Following the deadline for applications to the EU Settlement Scheme, the process for completing right-to-work checks on EU, EEA, and Swiss citizens has now changed. Employers can no longer accept EU passports or ID cards as valid proof of right-to-work, with the exception of Irish citizens. Instead, you need to check a job applicant’s right to work online using a share code and their date of birth.
You can find more details on the Business Wales website.
UK Government fund opens for bids from communities across Wales
People across Wales will have the chance to become owners of at-risk local pubs, theatres, post offices, sports grounds and corner shops with the launch of the UK Government’s Community Ownership Fund, which will see more than £7m set aside for projects in Wales.
The fund will run over four years (until 2024/2025). There will be multiple bidding rounds. The first opened on 15 July 2021 and closes on 13 August 2021. Voluntary and community organisations can bid for match funding.
Visit the Business Wales website for more details.
Sale of halogen light bulbs will be banned from September 2021
The UK Government has announced plans to end the sale of halogen light bulbs from this September 2021, as part of the UK’s wider efforts to tackle climate change. Legislation being brought forward will also include the removal of fluorescent lights from shelves from September 2023.
Visit the Business Wales website for more details.
Useful COVID-19 information
As each premises is different, businesses should read all guidance. This continues to be updated so please check back regularly for the latest information.
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Stay up to date with tourism industry news
We are committed to providing the support and assurance the business community needs during these unprecedented difficult times and have issued several Coronavirus (COVID-19) related bulletins which can be found on the Tourism Industry Coronavirus (COVID-19) Bulletins page.
Business Wales is providing businesses with tailored support and advice about dealing with coronavirus, from financial and supply chain planning to advice on staffing issues. We would advise Tourism businesses and stakeholders in Wales wanting specific guidance to visit the Business Wales website or call Business Wales helpline on 03000 6 03000, and to regularly visit the Public Health Wales website for up-to-date public health information for you, your staff and your visitors.
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