Saffron Academy, Cornish Traditional Cottages, and Your Partnerships have joined forces to create an event solely for the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel, and Tourism sectors. Come, meet and share experiences as well as hear from hospitality leaders about new legislation and the trends within tourism in Cornwall and across the UK.
The next Tourism Together event is to be held at Saffron Academy offices in Newquay on Wednesday 7 February 2024 from 09:30 – midday.
There will be 2 key speakers at the event; Alistair Handyside, MBE, Executive Chair of the Professional Association of Self Catering (PASC), along with Malcolm Bell, MBE, Chair of Visit Cornwall.
Alistair Handyside is focussed on business advice roles in IT, tourism, and the food and drink sectors. He specialises in business development and business turnaround, mediation, lobbying, mentoring, and marketing. Alistair is the Westminster representative for the West of England Catering.
Malcolm Bell, will be speaking about the Cornish tourism industry and the challenges and positives within the future of tourism in Cornwall and beyond. He understands and is helping develop the vision of sustainable, regenerative, and inclusive tourism. Previously the Chief Executive of Visit Cornwall, Malcolm’s passion for the industry is second to none.
A question-and-answer session will take place following the presentations to exchange knowledge and experiences.
Charmian Licsauer from Cornish Traditional Cottages says: “We are honoured that Alistair and Malcolm will be joining us on 7 February to speak to Cornwall’s Tourism Businesses about: The new Fire Regulation changes that are coming into force and the challenges that are affecting the industry at this time and in the future in Cornwall and across the country.”
Claire from Saffron Academy and Charmian from Cornish Traditional Cottages have decades of experience within the industry so who is better placed to co-host the quarterly meetings? The next meeting is on 1 May 2024, and plans are already afoot about the next topics to be covered. They have always been passionate about developing skills and people to help with the future economy and promoting tourism is a career which can take people all over the world.
Claire from Saffron Academy added: “Now the European Funding has been completed the industry which has been reliant on the funding in so many ways and years are going to find training and developing staff even more of a challenge. We all know that the first things to go when the bottom line is struggling, are the training and marketing budget, which are 2 of the most important areas to grow your business and the team around you. By attending the meeting we are looking at collaborative ways of working together to get the best value for money when developing our teams.”
To book places then please click the link or contact hello@saffronacademy.co.uk
We look forward to seeing as many businesses represented at the event in February as possible.