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Lancaster Canal Boats who operate the summer season canal cruises and waterbus from their Aldcliffe Road mooring have been selected as a finalist under the recreation and tourism section of the 2013 Waterways Renaissance Awards! with its Lune Aqueduct Experience cruises. For the past 11 years the Awards have recognised over 120 exceptional projects that […]

National tourist board VisitEngland has joined forces with UK charity Action on Hearing Loss to launch Listen Up! – a new guide for tourism businesses.  Designed to help businesses become more accessible for customers with hearing loss, the free resource is available online at www.visitengland.org/access. More than 10 million people in the UK (one-sixth of […]

Marketing Lancashire is pleased to announce that five Lancashire Tourism Award Winners 2012/13 have been named as finalists in the prestigious Visit England Awards for Excellence, and go forward to the national finals which will be held at Lancashire County Cricket Club, Old Trafford, on Monday 20 May 2013. Lancashire’s 2013 finalists are: Access for […]

Thwaites Inns of Character has been announced as a winner at the prestigious Publican Awards 2013. Leading Northern-brewer Thwaites which currently has six Inns of Character in its growing portfolio has been awarded the title in the Best Accommodation category at a glittering awards ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The award follows […]

Craig Bancroft, Managing Director of Northcote, Lancashire has been awarded the special Association of Portuguese Wine Importers (APWI) Award on at the Annual Awards Dinner held on Tuesday 5th March, at The Ambassadors Residence, Embassy of Portugal, London the home of the ambassador his excellency Dr Joao de Vallera. It is only the third time […]

As the sun shone on the parkland outside Haigh Hall on Tuesday 5 March, inside, local producers and buyers were preparing to ‘talk shop’ at a Made in Lancashire Meet the Local Producer event. Marketing Lancashire had a good presence on the day, through their Taste Lancashire RDPE Defra funded campaign aimed at supporting local […]

Three years after quitting her role as an NHS Director Celia Gaze has opened The Wellbeing Farm dedicated to fighting stress and providing restful corporate away-days. “I was in a very stressful job, working long days and weekends whilst also looking after a one year-old” explains Celia “Eventually, I went off with stress.  But it […]

A chance to own a pirate ship which played a starring role at a Lancaster theatre recently could soon be yours. The Hispaniola was the centrepiece of the set for Treasure Island which entertained thousands of people at The Dukes over Christmas. And this unique piece of scenery could soon be sailing its way to […]

A chance to own a pirate ship which played a starring role at a Lancaster theatre recently could soon be yours. The Hispaniola was the centrepiece of the set for Treasure Island which entertained thousands of people at The Dukes over Christmas. And this unique piece of scenery could soon be sailing its way to […]

Lancashire is one of the stars of a national campaign highlighting some of England’s rural gems. Marketing Lancashire, the Destination Marketing Organisation for Lancashire, has been working with the national tourism agency Visit England, on a four week media campaign to promote short breaks and days out in rural Lancashire.  The campaign commences this week […]

Marketing Lancashire is proud to see three of the county’s finest eating establishments listed in the Budweiser Budvar Top Gastro Pub Awards, organised by The Publican’s Morning Advertiser and voted for by a panel of prestigious food industry professionals and business leaders. The winners were revealed at a lunch ceremony at the Crazy Bear in […]

A Boost to the Local Tourism and Economy Morecambe Bay Partnership has secured half a million pounds for Bay-wide tourism projects from the government’s Coastal Communities Fund.  Susannah Bleakley who co-ordinated the bid said: “This is great news for the Bay area – we hope this will bring an economic boost to the whole area, […]