"Radical Change" to the Role of ETC Announced in Parliament.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2002 The English Tourism Council The English Tourism Council (prior to 1999 the English Tourist Board) was the tourist board for England. In 2003 it merged with the British Tourist Authority to form VisitBritain. today welcomed Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell's announcement of "radical change" for the English Tourism Council, to enable English tourism to compete more effectively with other countries. Addressing the anomaly whereby English tourism is currently not promoted at a national level to people who live in the UK, Tessa Jowell announced plans to reform the marketing of England as England A refers to England's developmental national teams in several sports. Players on these teams often "graduate" to slots on the appropriate senior national team. The phrase may refer to:
It may contain one or more tourist attractions or visitor attractions and possibly some "tourist traps". (1). Welcoming the announcement, ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). Chairman Alan Britten said: "This is good news for English tourism and for England PLC. We now have an opportunity to put England on an equal footing with other countries in the UK. The potential is huge and a marketing role will provide the level playing field See net neutrality. England needs to win more business. We look forward to joining in further discussions with the Government and industry on this new agenda to provide support for everyone working in English tourism." ETC also welcomed Tessa Jowell's announcement of a stronger role for Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the strategic leadership of tourism and Regional Tourist Boards as the natural delivery partners for the RDAs. Notes (1) The English Tourism Council is a strategic body, supported by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (sometimes abbreviated DCMS) is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, for example broadcasting. . It was created in 1999. Its predecessor was the England Tourist Board which had a marketing function. ETC has no marketing function. It was created to provide strategic advice to Government on tourism policy; to conduct research; and promote best practice, better quality and training in the England tourism market. Currently, marketing to the domestic market is delivered by the Regional Tourist Boards and local authorities as well as by the private sector. |
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