OxLEP digital Q&A: ‘How can Oxfordshire’s world-class visitor economy recover from the Coronavirus pandemic?’

In-light of the current Coronavirus outbreak OxLEP will next week continue its series of digital Q&As as a panel – made-up of some of the county’s leading business figures – come together to again tackle key themes around the global pandemic.

Over the past two years OxLEP has hosted numerous business Q&As covering key economic priorities for the county such as ‘Productivity’ ‘Placemaking’ and ‘Connectivity’ along with topical areas of discussion including Brexit.

Following-on from the success of these events – that’s helped to bring dozens of Oxfordshire businesses together – the local enterprise partnership have now taken its series of Q&As online the first of which‘Supporting businesses through the COVID-19 pandemic’aired earlier this week.

The second Q&A session: ‘How can Oxfordshire’s world-class visitor economy recover from the Coronavirus pandemic?’ will be available via OxLEP’s YouTube channel from midday on Thursday 7 May and the organisation is currently welcoming questions from the county’s business community through its social media channels using the hashtag #OxLEPQandA.

It will again be chaired by former BBC Radio Oxford presenter Howard Bentham who will ask a panel of business leaders questions on issues such as; how is the county’s visitor economy currently coping with the current pandemicwhat measures are needed to encourage pick-up in the visitor economy post-pandemic and – given that the sector equates to 10% of our county GVA – what can we collectively do to best protect it and help the sector recover.

The Q&A will in-particular review Experience Oxfordshire’s recent impact report analysing the immediate effect of the pandemic on the county’s visitor economy.

The following panel members will take part in the Q&A:

• Hayley Beer-Gamage: Chief Executive – Experience Oxfordshire
• Tagore Ramoutar: Managing Director and Co-Founder – The Oxford Artisan Distillery (TOAD)the current #1 of ‘things to do’ in Oxford on Trip Advisor
• Hedley Swain: Area DirectorSouth East – Arts Council England

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