Advantage boss hails govt's openness to addressing travel's skills gap

It comes as Sir John Whittingdale – who is providing maternity cover for tourism minister Julia Lopez – raised the issue of post-16 travel and tourism qualifications at a Tourism Alliance conference early last week. 

“The comments made by tourism minister Sir John Whittingdale reiterating the government’s commitment to developing a youth mobility scheme to address the skills shortage in the travel industry tourism are very welcome,” said Lo Bue-Said, who has also met with Whittingdale to discuss the issue.

“Having the government recognise the challenges the UK outbound travel industry faces when it comes to skills shortages is an important step forward.”