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    Overseas Travel

    Requested Tue 10 May 2022
    Responded  Wed 20 July 2022

    This is an information request relating to overseas travel by councillors or council officials.

    Please include the information for each of the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22.

    1. The total annual spend by the council on overseas travel.

    2. A breakdown of expenditure on overseas travel. Please include:

    a. Destination

    b. Length of trip

    c. Number of officials involved

    d. The name and address of the hotel(s) booked

    e. The flights booked, including which class

    f. Purpose of trip

    g. Expenses for food, drink, taxis (please, where possible, provide receipts)

    h. Please make clear whether a trip was fully funded by the council, only part funded, or was fully funded by an external body. If funded by an external body, please make clear which body.


    Response

    Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

    Please include the information for each of the following financial years: 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22.

    2019

    Workshop B on 'Intermodality for Visitors at Tourist Destinations', Bremerhaven, Germany

    Fully funded by DESTI SMART ERDF EU programme x 1 person

    Hotel Haverkamp - €220.40

    Train ticket Bremerhaven Hamburg Airport - conference DB £38.42

    Train £24 - to Gatwick

    easyJet flights - £102.36 London Gatwick to Hamburg

    £20 on refreshments

    2020

    To attend tourism consumer shows to promote 1066 Country Vakantiebeurs Exhibition (part funded by 1066 Country Marketing

    Travel free - due to complimentary travel by Eurostar

    Utrecht Hotel Mary K, 5 nights - £583.25

    Travel - £143.53

    Subsistence - £121.05

    2020

    Salon des Vacances (part funded by 1066 Country Marketing Partnership, a private/public sector organisation

    Travel free - due to complimentary travel by Eurostar

    Brussels Hotel Ibis (1 night) - £152.31, Hygge Hotel (3 nights) - £327.68

    Travel - £53.30

    Subsistence and metros - £110

    No trips taken in 2021/22

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