Decision details

Developing a New Strategy for the Visitor Economy

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

that the Council sets out a brief but clear three to five year plan which sets the aspiration, establishes the baseline information and leads the initiative required to bring partners together to develop the visitor economy under one robust and coherent strategy. (Recommendation from Overview and Scrutiny Committee)

Decision:

RESOLVED

 

1)          On the recommendation of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, that Option 4 as set out in section 9.1 of the Report of the Tourism Task and Finish Group be agreed:- ’That the Council sets out a brief but clear vision which sets the aspiration, establishes the baseline information and leads the initiative required to bring partners together to develop the visitor economy under one robust and coherent strategy and five-year plan.’

2)          That the Project Initiation Document for ‘Developing a New Strategy for the Visitor Economy’ be approved and that, noting the detail of funding required totalling £65,000, funding of £46,000 be requested from the Pooled Business Rate Fund and £19,000 from CDC reserves be approved to cover this expenditure.

Report author: Mrs Jane Hotchkiss

Publication date: 09/07/2015

Date of decision: 07/07/2015

Decided at meeting: 07/07/2015 - Cabinet

Effective from: 16/07/2015

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