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Grand Depart: Lasting legacy or anti-climax?

I went to the launch of International Business Week on Friday. In attendance was trade minister Lord Livingston and Welcome to Yorkshire’s own Gary Verity, amongst other delegates from

I asked Gary whether Yorkshire was ready for this kind of sporting event, that previously would have been held in London, like the Olympics had, with the infrastructure and the highly evolved tourism industry, and he looked shocked I would even ask.

He mentioned that Welcome to Yorkshire had also secured a deal for an annual cycling championship to come to Yorkshire every year….more news of that to come!

Yorkshire has a strong tourism industry compared to our Northern contemporaries, but will the legacy of the Grand Depart last beyond 2014 in real terms? Leave a comment of email me on clare.burnett@bdaily.co.uk.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .