§ Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the prospects for the tourist industry in 1991; and what assessment he has made of the percentage change in the proportion of British holidaymakers remaining in the United Kingdom this year.
§ Mr. ForthThe English tourist board has made no assessment of the proportion of British holidaymakers likely to stay in the United Kingdom this year. Latest available figures show that 79 per cent. of holidays taken by United Kingdom residents in 1989 were spent in the United Kingdom. My Department is giving its full support to the tourist board's "Britain's Great" campaign which is designed to promote holidays at home in 1991. We are also making available an additional £800,000 to the British Tourist Authority to market Britain overseas in the aftermath of the Gulf war.