Whilst I agree that the return of hospitality and tourism customers is a quick win for the region and agree it is a necessary part of recovery from the impact of Covid-19, the over reliance on those two aspects does not provide resilience in the present form.
https://www.dorsetlep.co.uk/news-article/tourism-crucial-to-dorset-s-economic-recovery
When we “locked down” what businesses carried on, carried on providing employment, reassurance and stability for their employees? In large part it was the service industries such as IT, marketing, PR, Digital and web. It was also some of those service companies that enabled stifled businesses to pivot, to become online businesses, to take orders and to deliver.
How to do make the hospitality and tourism sectors more resilient, to weather in the first instance, always an issue and to pandemics which is a harder one to tackle, if possible.
What about family breaks that are cookery weekends for everyone to join in, to learn and to do? What about learning to YouTube for the kids at technology camps to use up academic spaces? There must be more activities that are not fair weather dependent or wet weather is part of the make up.
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