Roadshow reveals the legacy of 2012 (From Thisisdorset)

Roadshow reveals the legacy of 2012

12:01pm Friday 21st July 2006

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DELEGATES attended an Olympics roadshow when it stopped off at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.

The aim of the event on Portland was to highlight the long term benefits of the country hosting the 2012 Olympics including sailing events off the Dorset coast.

Keith Mills, who is deputy chairman of London 2012, and Jack Lemley, from the Olympic Delivery Authority, were among the experts at the academy.

The roadshow was held as the focus shifts nationally to the impact of the games and how businesses can benefit.

Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell said in a recent speech that businesses had a once in a lifetime opportunity to lift themselves out of their comfort zone and reap the benefits of hosting a major sporting event.

The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary told 200 business leaders at Leeds Town Hall that the whole of the UK would be able to benefit as the event would lift the mood of the country and that thousands of contracts would be on offer to businesses in the coming months.

She also launched the widest ever' consultation of the tourism industry in a bid to maximise the potential benefits of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games.

She said: "I often think we do cynicism very well in this country, but this is an opportunity to do something different."

Ms Jowell unveiled a package of measures to support businesses in the run-up to the 2012 Games.

These included the Olympic Delivery Authority's new procurement policy, which shows how the ODA procures and manages the delivery of goods and services to deliver new venues and infrastructure in a sustainable way, as well as the tourism consultation.

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