Friends and MP raise tourism as concern
Challenge is to identify other more ecologically-sustainable ways of living in the rural area
A North Wales Build Back Better (BBB) group set up by a Friend from Porthmadog Meeting has agreed with its local MP that tourism in the area is a particular concern.
The BBB group for the Llŷn and Eifionydd area and beyond, set up by Friend Frances Voelcker, met remotely with Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts to discuss how Wales could move to a greener and fairer economy.
Frances Voelcker told the Friend: ‘In discussion with Liz Saville Roberts, we have agreed that an area of particular current concern is tourism. It is a disproportionately large employment sector in North West Wales, but it is poorly paid, seasonal and unreliable, and, this summer, very damaging. Tourism (including one particularly antisocial aspect of it, second homes) is unsustainable, so the challenge is to identify other more ecologically-sustainable ways of living in the rural area, and build those up while easing away from tourism.’
The Zoom Meeting on 27 August discussed ideas on tax reform, nuclear waste, military recruitment and sustainable agriculture.
The BBB group is not specifically Quaker. North Wales Area Meeting has been enrolled as a supporting organisation.
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