Finalists Announced for the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards The Finalists have been announced for this year’s Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards sponsored by NFU Mutual Clifton and Wrington.  The winners will be announced by Laura Rawlings from BBC Bristol on 21 November at a prestigious dinner at the Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre, with guest speakers Bev and Sarah...

Kathryn Davis, last year's winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Tourism Award has been appointed interim CEO at Visit Bath until Spring 2020.  Kathryn said, “I am thrilled to be part of the Visit Bath team and look forward to being able to work with members, partners and stakeholders in the strategic development and delivery of the visitor economy in Bath and North East Somerset.&...

For those who live life to the full outside of the usual 9-5, Clarks Village is pleased to announce the opening of three new stores. Haribo opened its doors on 22nd August. Rebecca Fox, Retail Manager at HARIBO, comments: “We’re super excited about our latest store launch; it’s more than just a place for people to purchase their favourite treats, they also get to immerse themselves...

AWARDS RECORDS SMASHED AFTER EARLY LAUNCH Entries to the Tourism Awards have been broken again with 737 entries already received from across the South West and 133 from Bristol, Bath and Somerset. The news follows a period of major changes for the awards with new websites, shorter and online entry forms and a launch to industry nearly two months earlier than in the past. It also follows the organisers...

We’ve teamed up with Forthglade to launch the first ever South West Dog Friendly Pub award. So, if you run a dog friendly pub now is the time to get your visitors to nominate you and they will be in with a chance of winning a dog friendly package worth over £1,000.  Nominations must be made before 18 August and can be done here. Forthglade have produced free promotional material...

The organisers of the region’s Tourism Awards are celebrating today following news of their own Gold Award in the Awards Trust Mark scheme, making them the first awards scheme of any kind in the South West and the first tourism scheme in the country to win the accolade....