The Attainment and Wellbeing Scrutiny Inquiry Panel have recently started to review issues around wellbeing in Schools across Swansea. As part of this inquiry they have decided to visit a number of schools to look at good practice. They made their first visit to Morriston Comprehensvie School today. They spoke to the Headteacher and chair of […]
Tourism Panel speaks to local business
November 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Tourism Inquiry Panel recently met with a number of people who are knowledgeable about this subject including represenatives from the Business Improvement District (BID), Swansea Bay Tourism Partnership, an events organiser and a senior lecturer in Tourism Management at the Metropolitan University. The Panel found the meeting hugely benefical with a number of key issues being […]
Survey to help improve tourism in Swansea
November 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
TOURISM operators are being asked to fill in a survey to help improve Swansea Bay as a visitor destination in future. The survey has been made available online and comes in response to a request from a Tourism Inquiry Panel set up by Swansea Council Members. Councillors put the Tourism Inquiry Panel in place to […]
Tourism and the public realm in Swansea
October 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Tourism Inquiry Panel met on the 26th September to look at destination planning in relation to environment and transport issues as part of their review of Tourism in Swansea. The Director for Environment and officers from the Tourism and Marketing Section attended the meeting to take part in a question and answer session. The discussion […]
Tourism and the local economy
September 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Tourism Inquiry Panel met last week to look at tourism and the local economy, as part of their review of Tourism in Swansea. They invited officers from the Economic Regeneration and Planning Department to take part in a question and answer session. The discussion was wide and took in range of issues including for example: […]
Budget and Finance Performance Panel
September 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A panel has been set up to monitor the budget process and will meet for the first time towards the end of September where it will look at the budget and finance monitoring report for the first quarter of this financial year (Apr – Jun). The report details any significant variations to the agreed budget and the actions that are planned to […]