YORK has the ninth highest proportion of tourism jobs in the UK.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 12.9 per cent of the city’s overall employment was in tourism.
The city comes behind Torbay, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, East Cumbria and Blackpool in England, while in Scotland and Wales, Lochaber, Skye and Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae, Argyll & Bute and Gwynedd are more dependent on tourism.
London accounts for as much as 16 per cent of all tourism jobs in the UK, but within London tourism industries only account for 10.4 per cent of the capital’s overall employment.
The ONS figures also showed the importance of tourism to, for example, Wales, where tourism accounts for only 4.7 per cent of total UK tourism jobs but as many as 9.6 per cent of total Welsh employment.
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