Wales Week USA is an annual event that takes place around March 1 – St. David’s Day. Wales Week is co-ordinated by the Welsh Assembly Government in New York in partnership with a wide variety of organisations, artists, writers and performers in both Wales and the USA.
The Welsh Assembly Government is the devolved government for Wales in the UK, brought into being by a referendum and subsequently by the Act of Wales 1998.
The Welsh Assembly’s USA headquarters are in the Chrysler Building in New York. We are involved in raising the profile of Wales in order to increase inward investment, trade, tourism and academic and cultural exchange between Wales and the USA.
All very good except the British still retain the right and responsibility to market Wales as a tourist destination in the USA and they continue to fail at it.
VisitBritain is as of now still marketing St Davids Day activities from 2007.
Clearly this state of affairs is damaging our tourism industry. The exclusive right and responsibility to market Wales as an overseas tourism destination must be taken away from the British and transferred to the Senedd. We can't afford not to.