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date	30/01/2023
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2023 To Question 124155 on Tourism: India, whether her Department has a strategy to promote Greater Manchester as a destination to Indian tourists.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	135457
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2023 answer text <p>The government promotes Britain as a holiday destination to tourists from India through VisitBritain, the national tourist board. India is one of VisitBritain's core markets and has staff based in Mumbai and New Delhi.</p><p>VisitBritain (India) works closely with UK inbound tourism businesses, with a particular focus on the North of England, including Greater Manchester, to inform them of the potential of the Indian market. This is done by encouraging UK inbound tourism businesses to tailor their offers and products to the Indian market, as well as educating them on the nuances of working with the local industry and how to provide a quality service to Indian visitors.</p><p>In January, VisitBritain hosted the ‘Showcase Britain’ event where they welcomed more than 120 international travel trade buyers for a series of educational visits across Britain including Greater Manchester.</p><p>As part of the wider Business and Tourism Programme (BATP), VisitBritain (India) has been utilising Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to encourage longer stays across the UK.</p><p>VisitBritain has been building on the work delivered in 2019 during the Cricket World Cup to promote the north of England, positioning Manchester as the Gateway of the North. The exciting events of 2023 such as the King’s Coronation and Eurovision in Liverpool will further help to attract international visitors, including to Manchester as the UK’s third most visited city.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 07/02/2023 16:42:07 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1567315

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to promote British holiday destinations to tourists from India.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	124154
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The government promotes Britain as a holiday destination to tourists from India through VisitBritain, the national tourist board. India is one of VisitBritain's core markets and has staff based in Mumbai and New Delhi.</p><p>VisitBritain (India) works closely with inbound UK tourism businesses to inform and educate them on the potential of the Indian market and encourage them to consider the Indian market in their offers and products.</p><p>In 2022, VisitBritain (India) undertook a paid content campaign with Jio, one of India’s largest telecom service providers and content creators, to showcase visitor experiences within Birmingham and the West Midlands in tandem with the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.</p><p>As part of the wider Business and Tourism Programme (BATP), VisitBritain (India) engaged with over 1000 industry partners across India to promote Birmingham and the West Midlands using the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games to encourage longer stays.</p><p>In addition to this VisitBritain has been building on the work delivered in 2019 during the Cricket World Cup to promote the north of England, positioning Manchester as the Gateway of the North.</p><p>Later this month, VisitBritain will host educational trips for international trade buyers across Britain. The delegation of Indian buyers will visit the West Midlands.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 19/01/2023 12:52:18 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1567316

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what estimate her Department has made of the number of tourists from India who visit Greater Manchester each year; and what assessment her Department has made of the impact of those tourists on the economy of Greater Manchester.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	124155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2023 answer text <p>The latest International Passenger Survey from the Office of National Statistics (and supported by VisitBritain) found that in 2019 there were 39,990 visits to Greater Manchester from India.</p><p>Visits from India were equivalent to 2% of the total 1.9m international visits (1,894,760) to Greater Manchester that year, and the £52m spend (£51,959,650) from Indian visitors represented 6% of the total spend from international visits of £850m (£850,075,740) in Greater Manchester.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Pudsey answering member printed Stuart Andrew question first answered 23/01/2023 16:58:15 answering member 4032 label Biography information for Stuart Andrew
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1467777

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Tourism: India
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment her Department has made of the impact of tourism from India on the economy of (a) Greater Manchester and (b) United Kingdom in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	13263
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, the expenditure of visitors to the UK from India was steadily increasing. In 2019, the total expenditure of visitors from India was £752.46 million and the average spend per visit was £1,088 - in Greater Manchester the total expenditure was £51.96 million and the average spend was £1,299 per visit. In 2019, there were 692,660 visits from India to the UK; 39,990 of these were to Greater Manchester.</p><p>The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 53% reduction in seat capacity from India to the UK in 2020 and in 2021 was 54% behind pre-COVID levels.</p><p>The Government is committed to assisting and accelerating the tourism sector’s recovery from COVID-19 which is why we published the Tourism Recovery Plan (TRP) in June 2021.</p><p>The TRP sets out ambitious and stretching targets to recover inbound visitor numbers and spend to 2019 levels by the end of 2023 and recover domestic overnight trip volume and spend by the end of 2022 - at least a year faster than independent forecasts predict.</p><p>We are now showing the rest of the world that the UK is open, and ready to welcome visitors from around the world for a blockbuster year of events which began with the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee last weekend. India has been one of VisitBritain’s key campaign markets for the upcoming Birmingham Commonwealth Games taking place this summer. As well as the Commonwealth Games, we will also be showcasing the breadth of the UK’s culture, creativity and innovation through Unboxed, ‘Creativity in the UK’.</p> answering member constituency Mid Worcestershire answering member printed Nigel Huddleston question first answered 16/06/2022 11:05:22 answering member 4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra