Foreign languages and the health of UK tourism

Deplores the decline of domestic trips, in the short‐term, in the UK, owing to various prohibitive events taking place such as petrol strike action, foot and mouth and even the 9/11 atrocity. The vulnerability of tourism in the face of such events, to a particular destination, means the tourism sector must be competitive as there are many more places to go. Posits the UK’s backward position with regard to language skills among both tourism enterprises and organizations. Concludes UK tourism as a whole will continue to be under attack unless simple things such as foreign language skills are properly addressed.