The future of tourism on the horizon

Mr Vaizey is the keynote speaker at Expanding Horizons, a one-day summit organised by Peel Heritage, which will be held at Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire on Thursday, September 12.

The international line-up also includes the deputy director of Cultural Production at the Louvre, Agnès Alfandari, the head of the Heritage Lottery Fund for Yorkshire and Humber, Fiona Spiers, and the president of the European Historic Houses Association, Count Rodolphe de Looz-Corswarm.

It is expected that 100 delegates from the heritage, museums and cultural tourism sector will attend the conference, where they will participate in a debate about the future of the sector and consider the latest thinking in the field of audience and visitor development.

This is the second year that Peel Heritage has organised the conference. Susannah Daley, managing director of Peel, said: “We are delighted to have attracted such a strong panel of speakers.”