Mandy Davies was born in Cardiff and has a background in hotel management and event organisation. She returned to South Wales in 1999 with her husband and two sons to run a guest house and self-catering business on the outskirts of Cowbridge. Mandy founded the Vale Marketing Group in 2003. As chair, she has been responsible for the growth and implementation of VMG as a non-profit tourism initiative aimed at increasing awareness of the Vale of Glamorgan as a tourist and visitor destination and liaising with other tourism bodies and associations to enable the group to continue to grow and flourish. She serves on a number of tourism bodies including chairing both Capital Region Tourism and the South East Wales Tourism Forum. She is a board member of the Wales Tourism Alliance and a member of the tourism advisory panel to the Welsh Assembly Government.

Don’t play Welsh tourism into the bunker

There is a once-in-a-generation to transform the fortunes of the Welsh tourism industry. Can the Welsh Government, Visit Wales and the industry rise to the challenge?