Anthony Rawlins is the founder of Digital Visitor and has over 15 years’ experience in crafting digital and media strategies. In his opening day seminar, he’ll be discussing why marketing your tourism business as an experience is a key strategy for success, and, more importantly – how to do it (10.30am on 25 March).
Question: It’s cold. It’s wet. It’s green. What is it? Tip: it’s not the Incredible Hulk on ice-skates. Nor a pickled gherkin in a freshly-rinsed ramekin. Answer:The land is green, the sky is grey (not always!) and the tea is biscuit orange. Talking of tea, here is the place where anything from an immense family…
The last 10 years has seen Birmingham skyrocket as a global tourism destination. Through recognizing and acknowledging the city’s incredible history, we can see what has led to the UK’s second city continuing to flourish and grow, to now attracting 42 million visitors each year and generating over £7bn economic impact. Once seen as the…
Golden sands, a calm sea breeze and clear blue skies, it’s the holiday dream for most, and judging by many adverts it’s the reality. However, what you see isn’t always what you get. The internet has made booking holidays easier than ever. Sadly it has also opened up consumers to extensive dishonest marketing. The old…
With TV shows like Ancestors and Who Do You Think You Are? attracting well known celebrities to explore their family history, ancestral travel has continued to rise in popularity in recent years. Genealogy is reported to be one of the second most popular hobbies. The forthcoming 400th anniversary of the historic voyage of the Mayflower…
Big speaker announcements are coming in fast for this year’s British Tourism & Travel Show, as it adds experts from VisitEngland, AGTO, Tourism Alliance, Tourism for All, the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK, Green Bus and Coach, Digital Visitor, and Travlaw to its business seminar line-up.
British Tourism & Travel Show has launched this year’s BTTS ‘Industry Snapshot Survey’. Open to tour operators, GTOs, travel agencies, DMOs, visitor attractions, destinations and hotels across the UK and Ireland, the findings (to be announced next month) will provide a ‘snapshot’ of how the domestic tourism sector has fared over the last 12 months…
Our next speaker Q&A features Wendy Hartley-Scarff, CEO of the Association of Group Travel Organisers. Here she talks about everything from trends, personalisation, and sustainable tourism, to who inspires her, what’s next for the AGTO, and her favourite destination to visit.
Which key tourism trends will be shaping travel and tour itineraries in the year to come? That was the question the British Tourism & Travel Show posed to some of its regular visitors ahead of its next show in March. Their expert predictions provide a snapshot of some of the trends driving staycation/excursion bookings this…
Isn’t it interesting how a crisis or environment of austerity can suddenly galvanise people to rise out of the doom and gloom and pull together to make amazing things happen. Take Salisbury and the Novichok ‘incident’. Catastrophic though this was, it caused the community, councils, businesses and media to pull together and, would you believe,…