VisitEngland in partnership with the tourism organisations of London, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are stepping up its UK-wide ‘Escape the Everyday’ campaign to drive domestic day trips and overnight breaks as the summer holidays begin.
UK announces Tourism Recovery Plan
The plan sets out a clear policy direction for the future and outlines the ambitions for domestic and international tourism.
VisitBritain sets out priorities to support tourism recover and rebuild
VisitBritain sets out its priorities to support the sector to recover and rebuild.
Escape the Everyday – campaign launched to boost UK domestic tourism
The ‘Escape the Everyday’ campaign, which first launched in autumn 2020, highlights the quality destinations, visitor attractions and experiences on offer across the UK to build back demand for domestic breaks.
English Tourism Week encourages support for sector as businesses reopen and start to rebuild
English Tourism Week is fast approaching with this year’s week dedicated to showing support for tourism businesses and destinations across the sector as they reopen and start to rebuild.
WTTC ‘Safe Travels’ stamp reaches 250th destination
St Lucia, Fiji and Ethiopia join the ever-growing list of destinations to get world’s first global safety and hygiene stamp.
Best of UK tourism at VisitBritain’s global trade event ‘ExploreGB’
VisitBritain is gearing up to host virtually its flagship global travel trade event ExploreGB from 1 to 5 March.
VisitBritain’s predicts first signs of slow recovery for 2021
VisitBritain’s inbound tourism forecast for 2021 is predicting the first signs of a slow recovery for overseas visits to the UK.
ExploreGB will go virtual in 2021
VisitBritain has announced that its flagship annual travel trade event ExploreGB will run as a virtual event in 2021.
VisitBritain reports on year of tourism growth
Visitors spent £951 million in Britain in the last financial year as a result of activity by national tourism agency VisitBritain/VisitEngland latest figures show.