Tourism Industry Update
BULLETIN CONTENTS: Hospitality can offer rewarding careers; National Events Strategy for Wales 2022–2030 launch highlights; HSE: Working in hot temperatures guidance; Temporary Use Ban (hosepipe ban) to protect Pembrokeshire’s water supplies and environment; Al fresco dining boost for businesses; Wales’ Cultural Recovery Fund provided a lifeline to the Creative sector, new report.
Hospitality can offer rewarding careers
The hospitality industry offers rewarding, varied and exciting careers Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales Lesley Griffiths said on a visit to Dylan’s restaurant in Llandudno.
Dylan’s are running their own hospitality training academy, in partnership with Grwp Llandrillo Menai, which aims to create a sustainable and accessible apprenticeship training programme for young people who are seeking to find a satisfying and rewarding career in hospitality, with a guaranteed job at the end of their course.
Dylan’s have also supported the Visit Wales recruitment campaign which was launched to encourage more people into Wales’s tourism and hospitality industry to address staff shortages currently being experienced across the country.
With a huge variety of roles currently on offer, Visit Wales is bringing together voices from across the sector to highlight the many benefits of working in the hospitality sector – and in helping to deliver great experiences to guests and customers.
The campaign in partnership with Working Wales, provides one simple route for young people aged 16-24 in Wales to access the sector through the Young Person’s Guarantee offer. It encourages people to join ‘the experience makers’ and highlights the many and varied career opportunities in the sector.
Read in full on Hospitality can offer rewarding careers | GOV.WALES.
National Events Strategy for Wales 2022–2030 launch highlights
Welsh Government Minister for Economy, Vaughan Gething MS recently invited representatives from the events industry to join him for the launch of The National Events Strategy for Wales 2022–2030. The event focused on the key challenges and opportunities the sector faces and how we can work together to ensure Wales maintains and enhances its reputation as a leading events destination through a mixed portfolio of cultural, sporting and business events, delivering benefits across the year, and across Wales, in line with the Welsh Government’s wellbeing goals.
Held on Wednesday 13 July 2022 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff, the event concluded with a networking reception at which delegates and speakers continued their discussions on how the public and private sectors can work together to sustain and develop the events offer in Wales. Take a look at the highlights of the National Events Strategy for Wales launch.
HSE: 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 (HSE) has plenty of guidance on workplace temperature
Find out more on: HSE: Working in hot temperatures guidance | Business Wales (gov.wales).
Temporary Use Ban (hosepipe ban) to protect Pembrokeshire’s water supplies and environment
Following the driest year since 1976, record temperatures and an increased demand for water, water resources (or reservoirs) for the Pembrokeshire area are approaching drought levels.
While this does not pose an immediate risk to water supplies for the area, Welsh Water is having to take steps to ensure enough water remains to continue supplying customers and to protect the local environment over the coming months.
From 08.00am on 19th August, a Temporary Use Ban (TUB), more commonly known as a ‘hosepipe ban’, will come into force for customers in Pembrokeshire and a small adjoining part of Carmarthenshire. This will mean those that have water supplied by Welsh Water in this area will not be able to use a hosepipe to carry out activities in and around their property, such as watering plants or filling paddling pools or hot tubs.
For further details visit Temporary Use Ban (hosepipe ban) to protect Pembrokeshire’s water supplies and environment | Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water (dwrcymru.com).
Al fresco dining boost for businesses
Temporary changes, brought in to help pubs, cafes and restaurants take advantage of the warm weather and operate outside, are extended and will be made permanent next year.
Temporary changes brought in during COVID-19 which make it quicker, easier and cheaper for business to get a licence to serve food and drink on pavements and pedestrianised roads have been extended.
The extension will continue until the changes are made permanent in the spring.
Find out more on: Al fresco dining boost for businesses | Business Wales (gov.wales).
Wales’ Cultural Recovery Fund provided a lifeline to the Creative sector, new report
The Welsh Government’s £108 million Cultural Recovery Fund was fundamental to the survival of many cultural organisations in Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic which helped safeguarded 2,700 FTE jobs, a new report has shown.
Further details are available on: Wales’ Cultural Recovery Fund provided a lifeline to the sector, new report | GOV.WALES.
Stay up to date with tourism industry news
Take a look at our latest Visit Wales industry newsletters and bulletins: Tourism Newsletter/Bulletin | Business Wales (gov.wales).
These include the latest tourism industry news from Wales and information for the industry on Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Useful Links
For specific 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 to visit the Business Wales website or call Business Wales helpline on 03000 6 03000. You should 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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