Don't miss our forthcoming
VisitWiltshire Partner Opportunities
Marketing Opportunities
New City Campaign
Launching January 2017 Information on this campaign can be downloaded here. For further information or to register your interest contact Fiona.
Are you interested to drive more
visitors during the shoulder months?
In order to generate business during the shoulder months we would encourage you to offer your customers a reason to visit 'now'. If you are able to create special 'good value' offers eg. Two for One or add value in any way please let us know so we can help push this message out for you. Contact Flo with details.
FREE Events Listings We require Fireworks, Christmas and New for 2017 events and activities. Please submit details via our event form.
Filming in Wiltshire We are compiling a list of films and TV series – if you know of any big screen or TV series that have been filmed here over the last year – or are due to be filmed here in the future – please could you email Jenny with details.
Last Call Outs Last call out for 2017 events calendar and last chance to be included for any advertising/editorial opportunities in our 2017 publications. Please contact Jenny
Partner Meetings & Training Events Please add the following dates to your diary and contact Theresa to book a place:
Its been great to see so many partners at our local networking events over the past few weeks. A future meeting programme will be advised in due course.
New Training Events:
An Introduction to Website Marketing Wednesday 26 October
10am – 4pm, Central Salisbury
An Introduction to Social Media Wednesday 2 November
10am - 4pm, Central Devizes.
We are continuing to work with Newsquest on our VisitWiltshire pick of the week offers and so far have featured Malmesbury Carnival, Mayfield House Hotel, Castle Combe and Salisbury Contemporary Craft & Heritage Festival. The number of voucher redemptions has varied but partners have all appreciated the free local awareness of their events/activities. If you would like your event or attraction featured for free please contactFlowith details of your offer.
See our latest press releases here. Please note that the VisitWiltshire website will feed content for press releases so if please make sure you have filled in the events form in order to have the chance to be included!
Travel Trade Update We are currently planning our Autumn Familiarisation Visit to Wiltshire from Sunday 2 - Tuesday 4 October. Thank you to all our partners who are supporting this event. We have 18 buyers attending representing 6 travel trade wholesales /operators, 3 press and 4 group travel organisers. The 'one to one' meetings being held at Marlborough College on Tuesday 4 October has had 22 Wiltshire tourism businesses signed up to attend.
Industry News
VisitBritiain/VisitEngland News The VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2017 are a great opportunity for you and your business or organisation to be recognised and rewarded on a regional and potentially national basis for providing excellence. Simply by taking part you could improve your business performance in terms of turnover, profitability, quality, sustainability, staff morale and customer satisfaction. Applications are now open. Find out more and apply here.
Tourism Alliance News The Tourism Alliance have issued the new UK Hotels Forecast 2017 and it looks like PWC are forecasting occupancy and RevPAR outside London to continue to grow in 2017. The report can be downloaded here.
New Partners We would like to welcome our latest VisitWiltshire partners: Cross Keys Inn
The Old Ale and Coffee House
Norman Allen Group
Andrew James Coaches
VisitWiltshire's Business Enews is a bi-monthly newsletter designed to keep you informed of the latest opportunities, activities and news. 15 September 2016
