01/11/2021
Keith Beecham wrote for October 2021 Tourism Society e-Journal.
Untapping Potential - It's in Your Hands
Tourism consistently lags the rest of the economy in productivity. The UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) data suggests Tourism's Gross Value Added (GVA) is only 55% of the value of the construction industry and (a truly awful) 28% of the value of the manufacturing sector. Consequently, the pay was on average one third lower.
Young people fail to stay in our industry which too often doesn't invest in them, career paths are ill-defined, especially compared to more professionalized industries with benchmarked attainment standards. So, by inadequate investment in developing staff, and given the ...
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