This blog extends some of the analysis in the Spending Time report to include non-urban local authorities. It shows that understanding the rural visitor economy can help contextualise many urban tourism trends in the UK.
Visitor spend is mostly in city centres. Understanding this fact, in combination with the few exceptions to this rule, will be key in the ongoing debate over tourism taxes.
On this page, you can find the answers to these questions and more, including the options available for bus reform, the current state of franchising around the country, and the potential risks of the model.
As COP29 drew to a close last week, here are three things the Government should do to reduce emissions here in the UK.
Explore the briefings, blogs and research below for Centre for Cities’ thinking and analysis on how a target-focussed and place-based policy agenda can address the UK’s sluggish productivity, address regional inequality and create a more prosperous country.
The Government will soon publish a white paper on devolution in England. This is likely to be the latest staging post in England's gradual move to having more power held at the level that an...
As well as providing a deep dive into the latest economic data on the UK’s cities and largest towns, Cities Outlook 2024 looks back at how cities have fared since 2010.
With 2024 a likely election year, this year's Cities Outlook looks back at how cities have fared since 2010 and where the economy would be today had pre-2010 trends continued.
The UK economy has flatlined, and all parts of the country are suffering. This won’t change unless productivity growth improves.
In a two-part series of Centre for Cities’ City Minutes podcast, Chief Executive Andrew Carter and Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney explore the findings and implications of the Centre’s annual snapshot of urban economies across the UK.
No part of the UK has escaped the impact of the flatlining of the UK economy since 2010, according to new analysis by Centre for Cities in Cities Outlook 2024.
Join Centre for Cities for an in-depth look at the findings from Cities Outlook 2025.
A parliamentary reception to mark the launch of Centre for Cities' new Restarting housebuilding report series.
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Rob Johnson, Analyst, and Oscar Selby, Researcher, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, ‘Spending time: the role of the visitor economy in UK...
In this episode of City Talks Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of Centre for Cities, is joined by Mark Muro, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, to discuss place based industrial strategy. They...
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