{"id":2821,"date":"2010-04-06T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T10:47:23","slug":"government-british-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/government-british-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Government is failing with British tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-tourism.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2822\" title=\"Government is failing with British tourism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/british-tourism.jpg\" alt=\"Government is failing with British tourism\" width=\"203\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The boss of Britain&#8217;s largest hotel and restaurant group has accused the government of a &#8216;systemic failure&#8217; to take the tourism industry seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alan Parker, chief executive of Whitbread \u2013 the owner of Premier Inns and Costa Coffee \u2013 said Britain&#8217;s place at the top table of the world&#8217;s tourist destinations is under threat from emerging nations and needs a new strategic vision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tourism has been a great British success story and we do punch above our weight but we could be doing so much more,&#8217; he said. &#8216;I&#8217;m not looking for government handouts but some recognition of the industry&#8217;s contribution.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Parker called on Chancellor Alistair Darling to bring back tax breaks on hotel developments, to help restore dilapidated tourist spots including some of Britain&#8217;s run-down beachfronts and town centres.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boss of Britain&#8217;s largest hotel and restaurant group has accused the government of a &#8216;systemic failure&#8217; to take the tourism industry seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sectoral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}