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The Tourism Awards are once again open for entry across the South East and South West Published on 8 Jun 2021
Tourism Awards
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- The Tourism Awards are once again open for entry across the South East and South West
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- Tourism Awards
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This week, CLA Cymru has sent a detailed briefing to Members of the Senedd outlining our strong opposition to the proposed Tourism (Visitor Levy) Bill. If passed, this legislation would introduce a new visitor tax on overnight stays in Wales, a move that could seriously harm the rural economy. Published on 4 Mar 2025
Tourism Bill brief to Members of the Senedd
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- Wales
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- wales, politics, economy, tourism
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- This week, CLA Cymru has sent a detailed briefing to Members of the Senedd outlining our strong opposition to the proposed Tourism (Visitor Levy) Bill. If passed, this legislation would introduce a new visitor tax on overnight stays in Wales, a move that could seriously harm the rural economy.
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- Tourism Bill brief to Members of the Senedd
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The Welsh Government has announced that they are proposing a Bill in the Senedd that will see a Tourism Levy applied across Wales from 2026. We explore the details so far. Published on 10 Dec 2024
Tourism Levy Announced in Wales
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- The Welsh Government has announced that they are proposing a Bill in the Senedd that will see a Tourism Levy applied across Wales from 2026. We explore the details so far.
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- Tourism Levy Announced in Wales
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With concerns over the Visitor Levy, the 182-day rule, and increasing regulation, many tourism businesses in Wales are feeling the strain. Some may close or lower their flags to half-mast on St David’s Day to highlight the growing challenges they face.
Published on 26 Feb 2025
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- With concerns over the Visitor Levy, the 182-day rule, and increasing regulation, many tourism businesses in Wales are feeling the strain. Some may close or lower their flags to half-mast on St David’s Day to highlight the growing challenges they face.
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- Tourism Levy, Feedback and Strikes
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The Welsh Government looks to create powers for local authorities to levy a tourism tax. Nigel Hollett blogs, looking at the implications for rural providers of holiday accommodation in Wales
Published on 24 May 2022
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- The Welsh Government is committed to introducing a Tourism Tax. What will its impact really be? Could it work to support our rural tourism businesses? Nigel Hollett met tourism industry leaders and Members of the Senedd, and blogs.
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- Tourism Tax: what will it do? How will it affect rural tourism businesses?
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The welsh Government has launched "Brilliant Basics," a £5m fund for small investments in car parking, toilets, signage, and info-boards to support tourism. But the sector still has intensely challenging regulation to bear.
Published on 15 Feb 2023
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- Wales
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- The Welsh Government’s “Brilliant Basics” £5 million tourism fund will do little to restore confidence of rural providers of holiday accommodation in the light of a visitor levy, a statutory licence and challenging tax thresholds
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- Tourism fund needs to do more to attract visitors to stay over in rural areas
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CLA Senior Business and Economics Adviser Charles Trotman explains why mixed messaging from Government has put tourism businesses at risk
Published on 18 Feb 2021
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- Charles Trotman
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- CLA Senior Business and Economics Adviser Charles Trotman explains why mixed messaging from Government has put tourism businesses at risk
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- Tourism sector given mixed messages
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With trail hunting in the spotlight, CLA National Access Adviser Claire Wright explains how the latest practical guidance can help you better understand landowner liability
Published on 22 Jan 2026
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- Claire Wright
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- With trail hunting in the spotlight, CLA National Access Adviser Claire Wright explains how the latest practical guidance can help you better understand landowner liability
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- Trail hunting, legislation and landowner risk
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The Wales Farm Safety Partnership (of which CLA Cynru is a member) endorses a new safety campaign highlighting the safe use and management of farm trailers. In 2019, research showed that a significant proportion of which had brake, bearing and hitch-eye defects. Published on 11 Apr 2023
Trailing danger!
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- New campaign highlights the safe use and management of trailers.
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- Trailing danger!
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Discover how CLA members, the Leatham family, have converted a 1,100-acre farm in the Yorkshire Dales into a series of thriving rural businesses
Published on 24 Sep 2025
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- Henk Geertsema
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- The North
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- Discover how CLA members, the Leatham family, have converted a 1,100-acre farm in the Yorkshire Dales into a series of thriving rural businesses
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- Transforming a Yorkshire Dales farm into a diverse rural enterprise
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Bolesworth Estate in Cheshire is now arguably the most visited attraction of its kind in the UK: The Ice Cream Farm
Published on 23 Feb 2021
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- The Midlands
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- Jonathan Fell - The Ice Cream Farm, Cheshire
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- Transforming a dairy farm into an award winning ice cream business
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A CLA member on the Llyn Peninsula in Wales has turned her hobby into a flourishing business that also helps support the viability of her family’s smallholding Published on 16 Jul 2024
Transforming a hobby into a lucrative rural business
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- Jasmin McDermott
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- Wales
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- A CLA member on the Llyn Peninsula in Wales has turned her hobby into a flourishing business that also helps support the viability of her family’s smallholding
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- Transforming a hobby into a lucrative rural business