What is Wales?

Most people reading this would have found your way here from Twitter, so thanks for following me, and thanks for meeting me here too! As someone who lives and breathes tourism in Wales, I am always interested in whether or not you’ve ever been to our country, where you are from and more importantly, what immediately springs to [...]

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The Perfect Tourism brief?

Tension – from The Pork Roast Tourism Study Originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness] Thank you to all the tourism consultants who have recently sent us copies of strategy briefs and expressed an interest in undertaking the work for my client. Details have now been passed over to the procurement department who will handle the tendering process [...]

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Tourism workshops, the follow up.

Anyone who has attended the series of workshops that TruTourism has staged throughout Wales and parts of England recently, a big thank you.  I hope you enjoyed them.  Probably the most interest was created in the workshops tackling the application of social media in tourism, and how businesses can apply these techniques to promote their small business. [...]

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Stars or stripes?

Increasingly we’re coming across many businesses in Wales starting to question the true value of star grading for accommodation.  They have done for years but it has definitely escalated.  I think everyone knows that it is an official indication of quality to the consumer, it lets you know where you stand in the pecking order, [...]

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