Issue - meetings

York Tourism Partnership

Meeting: 16/07/2007 - Executive Members for City Strategy and Advisory Panel (Item 24)

24 Development of the York Tourism Partnership PDF 49 KB

This report sets out a proposal for the development of the York Tourism Partnership.

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Leader be advised to:

· Endorse the arrangements for establishing a new tourism partnership in York as set out in the report.

Decision of the Executive Leader

RESOLVED: That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON: This will enable the Council and tourism partners to deliver transformation change in developing York as a European destination.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which advised them of the proposal for the development of the York Tourism Partnership.

Officers updated that there was an error in the last sentence of paragraph 6 of the report and this should read ‘The Chairman of the CLG would be expected to work on tourism partnership basis for an average of one day a week…’.

Members discussed the new structure proposals which would comprise a board of 13 directors, including 3 nominated by the City of York Council. The Chair and 8 other directors would be sought by open recruitment by advertisement, the remaining board position would be filled by the Chief Executive. Members thought that changes should be for the benefit of the city and realised they would face challenges as part of the streamlining of the tourism industry.