BHA Member: Memories of China

Press: June 2012

Obstacles in the way of encouraging the Chinese market

June 07, 2012

Comments by the British Ambassador to China regarding visa controls in the UK have the support of Britain’s hospitality and tourism industry, says Ufi Ibrahim, Chief Executive, British Hospitality Association. Sebastian Wood, Britain’s Ambassador to Beijing, in a confidential letter, said that the British government had allowed a ‘completely self defeating’ caricature of ‘fortress UK’ to take hold which increased the chances of the Chinese taking their ‘tourist dollars’ elsewhere. “This has been …

Obstacles in the way of encouraging the Chinese market