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The Regional Growth Fund’s failure to support tourism in England in its first round of grants worth £440m has been described as a lost opportunity to meet the industry’s aim to create 236,000 new jobs. Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive, of the British Hospitality Association, said the decision to refuse VisitEngland’s £29m bid for domestic tourism promotion was very disappointing. “It ignores the prime minister’s promise in the government’s own Tourism Strategy to …

The British Hospitality Association welcomes the publication of the government’s tourism strategy, and the support it gives to UK tourism, but it believes there are risks to its implementation.  “Many of the recommendations resonate with the BHA’s own report – Creating Jobs in Britain: a Hospitality Economy Proposition – which the association published last October,” said Ufi Ibrahim, chief executive. “We are very pleased the government has taken many of them up.  …