Sent To Jack Sargeant -The Fourth Minister With Responsibility For Tourism Within Just A Few Months
Sent 13th August - Jack Shit received in response. That's democracy at work, right?
Hi Jack, the response from your officials, as always, is wholly unacceptable, as it goes no way to answering my concerns or indeed addressing any issue raised.
I'll be frank. Visit Wales is poorly managed and in a most demonstrable mess with regard to its not fit-for-purpose onboarding protocols.
I can and have evidenced this and I would like to put this matter to bed once and for all, so in the interests of doing so, I request a meeting with you, to chat through the issues and hopefully make progress, seeing Visit Wales working for not against tourism in Wales.
Whatever your staff may have reported, I do not stand alone in this matter and my evidence, once understood, is shocking.
The First Minister at the time, Mark Drakeford, met with me and he assured me that Visit Wales should not be onboarding certain businesses, in competition with mine, without them having been accredited. I assured him that they continued to do this, wilfully and in full knowledge. I can say that with confidence as I was communicating with Visit Wales staff at the time. Unfortunately, Mark has given up on asking questions of the relevant minister, there have been so many.
Now, your office’s response is in stark contrast with the written documentation as displayed on the Visit Wales website, so once again I feel that Visit Wales staff are misleading both me and you. Wales Outdoors is now live on Visit Wales because I sold it! That simple eh? Who would have thought it?
I want explanations and I think it is in everyone’s interest that I have those explanations. I am tenacious and will raise this issue wherever I come across a Visit Wales member of staff and for very many years to come.
Let’s meet and draw a line under the matter.
Kind Regards,
Andy Lamb.
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