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Promoting Tourism for Halifax
We have just heard that Yorkshire is to make a BIG effort to promote TOURISM
The Conservative Shadow Minister Jeremy Hunt [ who recently visited Halifax ] has issued a statement on what the next Conservative Goverment will do to promote tourism and says about local goverment
" Part of much broader strategy is to encourage local authorities to take a real interest in and ownership of the promotion of tourism for their areas.
Our decentralisation plans will allow local authorities to keep any increase in business rates that they attract for six years. They will therefore have a real incentive to attract new tourism businesses.
And we will help them attract these new businesses by giving councils the discretionary power to cut business rates however they like. This will give them a real incentive to support the development of a local tourism industry. ."
This must be encouraging for us here in Halifax and throughout Calderdale where we have so much to offer in our Pennine setting.
Not only our town centre, with the Parish Church hoping to become a Minster Church, The Piece Hall and many other historic buildings, Bankfield Museum with The Dukes Regimental Museum, Shibden Hall and Park, Eureka and in Sowerby Bridge the Historic Canal Wharf all play a part in attracting tourists.
We have some excellent Hotels, Restaurants and Pubs, especially those serving Real Ale.
The new Railway service to London and a revamped Station show that we mean to put Halifax on the Tourist Map
What we need is a Conservative Goverment to allow our Council to develop Tourism without constraints from outside.
5th April 2009
   
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