This document sets out guidance on how to open hotels and other guest accommodation safely while minimising the risk of spreading COVID-19 . It gives practical considerations for how guidance can be applied in the workplace.

This guidance is designed to be relevant for people who work within the visitor economy; for example people who operate or run hotels and other types of accommodation (there is also a separate hotels and other guest accommodation guidance, indoor and outdoor visitor attractions guidance, and guidance for people who run or manage spaces for business or leisure events and conferences. There is also a separate guidance document on pubs and restaurants for food settings.

The focus is on a healthy green balanced recovery and what better example of this than the news that West Cornwall fishing has secured £220,000 to help projects that increase the sale and consumption of locally caught fish.

These guides cover a range of different types of work. Many businesses operate more than one type of workplace, such as an office, factory and fleet of vehicles. You may need to use more than one of these guides as you think through what you need to do to keep people safe. Further guidance will be published as more businesses are able to reopen.

Government to kickstart the economic recovery from coronavirus with £5 billion of infrastructure projects.

101 places to receive at least an additional £500,000 to spend on projects such as improvements to parks, high streets or transport links, including Penzance and St Ives

West Cornwall MP Derek Thomas is using the example of Porthcurno’s world-famous Minack Theatre to press Government to allow outdoor venues to re-open for performances immediately, if Covid-safe.               

In last week’s piece I mentioned the launch of the England Trees Strategy consultation.

Dental practices have been closed throughout the coronavirus pandemic with services limited to emergency dental care only in urgent dental centres located across the country.

Since the Government announced that shops selling non-essential items could reopen local leaders have been busy ensuring that our town centres in particular can open safely and that social distancing can be observed.

It was the Government that put the brakes on tourism in Cornwall and Scilly and it will be the Government that decides when to allow holiday-makers to visit again.