Business Planning & Economics

Sound business planning is a cornerstone of our consulting service. Locum is well known and regarded for its ability to combine creativity with realism in the delivery of business plans and financial models. We understand how to excite the interest and enthusiasm of potential investors, while providing them with the evidence base, research and analysis that engenders confidence and security. Whether we are advising banks or venture capitalists, the lottery funds or public agencies, local attractions or large developers, we develop bespoke business planning solutions tailored to the individual client’s requirements.

Locum Consulting has also developed unrivalled expertise in the visitor economy. Locum was the only private sector consultancy invited onto the national panel of experts, academics and officials tasked with developing the UK’s first Tourism Satellite Account. We regularly provide expert evidence on visitor economy issues for planning submissions and enquiries. We continue to work independently and in association with leading academics to explore the complex relationship between destinations and their wider economies.

Click on the links below to view examples of Locum’s work and to view relevant articles about this service area:

Articles
Click on the titles below to view relevant articles published in Locum Destination Review:

Artistic development - The rise of Yerba Bueba Gardens in San Francisco
Commercialising Culture - Retail and catering in cultural destinations
Crystal Ball Gazing - Market analysis, the rights and wrongs
Cultural and artistic anchors - Can cultural attractions become the new 'anchors' of mixed-use developments?
Cultural Impact - How can the economic effects of culture be measured?
Culture Club - Can culture really lead urban regeneration?
Destination Effect - How to create more imaginative developments and greater returns for investors
Economics without tears - Museum outsourcing
Live, work and play - Tom Bloxham on the secrets of successful urban development
Museums and Minerva - How are museums coping with the pressured economic climate?
Not for Profit - Creating museum stores in North America
Olympic economics - Converting Olympic achievement into economic success in Sydney
On the waterfront - The development and branding of Dublin's Docklands
Under the Microscope - Measuring the return on culture

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