Campaigners call for more Welsh language provision at tourist attractions

Good points. See also the (lack of) availability of Welsh-language menus in pubs/cafés/restaurants.

The findings are unsurprising. I am often saddened by the number of websites for businesses in Cymru that not only have an English only website, but also fail to use a national TLD (.cymru or .wales - though I personally think that .wales is superfluous). The legislation is also at fault, neither the Deddf yr Iaith Gymraeg 1993 nor the Mesur Iaith Gymraeg 2011 place a universal obligation on bodies or businesses to provide services and information in Cymraeg, and the legislation demands that a bureaucratic process is entered into to determine what a business or service is legally required to provide. Quite simply, language legislation is a mess. In my opinion both pieces of legislation need to be scrapped and simpler legislation adopted that determines that there is an equal and statutory obligation on all bodies and businesses in Cymru to provide services in Cymraeg and that the vast majority of information is available in both Cymraeg and English (in that order). Only information of very marginal, specialist interest, aimed at say, a target of 150 people or fewer, should be acceptable for English only publications, with all medical training publications being an important exception. Clearly we'd still hear the wails and gnashing of teeth from those who are anti-Welsh, but those voices can be easily ignored. For small businesses, there should be substantial grant funding to help with the costs of making the necessary changes. I would further add, that, in the area increasingly referred to as Arfor, that the default for signage of any variety should be Cymraeg only - most people carry a smart phone and can access Google Translate easily. For the few who don't have such a device, they have a tongue in their heads, and most of the locals are at least okay about speaking English to lost or confused tourists. Not only would having signage in Cymraeg only profoundly change the psychological environment, acting as a boost to speakers of Cymraeg, but also enhance the experience for tourists through amplifying the sense of being somewhere 'foreign'.

Wales is in a Faustian pact with tourism -- it has become the staple industry in certain regions, and the revenue it generates (some of which doesn't stay in Wales) is vastly outweighed by the negative impacts, of which environmental degradation (e.g. Y Wyddfa), occasional acts of vandalism (e.g.Dinorwig), and the issue covered in this article are among the most significant. Tourism needs a major refactoring, and a different mindset.

If you want anything that Cymru can offer tourists it's on offer in other parts of the UK. Apart from Cymraeg. It's our USP - Unique Selling Point The presence of Cymraeg both seen and heard is a advantage to the tourism industry. Whoever is providing the tourist experience, being able promote that experience as being different and unique is an advantage. Ultimately if we rule out those tourism providers with a lack of business acumen and imagination we're left with the prejudiced that plead poverty and other false reasoning up to those that had hissy fits when Bannau Brycheiniog National Park dropping the English name.

Excellent idea and long overdue, when I travel I expect to see and hear the indigenous language

Wales without the Welsh language being both seen and heard everywhere might as well just be another provincial part of England. I want to see the Welsh language wherever I go in Wales, just as I expect to see French everywhere in France.

We, the Welsh people, need to start a grassroots movement to produce more Welsh language content so that we can prove that it's profitable. If we can spend our own money to invest into Welsh-language civil society to prove its economic feasibility, maybe more and more companies will jump onto it.