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Key partners Blackpool Council, Marketing Lancashire and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership have submitted a bid to host the Great Exhibition of the North, a two month exhibition celebrating the best of art, culture and design across the North of England.  Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announced the competition in April and invited towns and cities across […]

Lancashire’s best food & drink producers, restaurateurs, chefs and retailers, keen to see Lancashire food and drink achieve the recognition it deserves, are invited to the first Lancashire Taste Exchange; an afternoon of tasting, talking and trading developed by Marketing Lancashire with the aim of generating new opportunities for Lancashire’s food and drink businesses.  From […]

Over 63 million visitors choose Lancashire for their days out and short breaks each year, and the county’s Visitor Economy Strategy has set, amongst its ambitions, to increase that number to 70 million by 2020. To grow visitor numbers to Lancashire and to better inform decisions on product development Marketing Lancashire, the county’s destination and […]

Marketing Lancashire was named winner of the Downtown Lancashire in Business Best Social Media Presence of the Year award, at the Downtown Lancashire in Business Awards held at the Mercure Blackburn Dunkenhalgh Hotel & Spa on Thursday 16 June.    Marketing Lancashire’s Chair of the Board of Directors, Tony Attard OBE (pictured right) and Chief Executive […]

Applications open today (13 June) for the annual Lancashire Tourism Awards #LTA16, celebrating tourism excellence and rewarding the achievements of industry colleagues across the county.  The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a spectacular event to be held in Blackburn Cathedral, the Cathedral of Lancashire, on Thursday 10 November; organised by Marketing […]

Championing Lancashire as a place to live, work, study and invest in, as well as being one of the UK’s top visitor destinations is Marketing Lancashire’s mission. The organisation leads the charge in placing Lancashire front and centre on the national and international stage showcasing its strengths and assets to attract more interest and investment. […]

Marketing Lancashire is proud to announce that the Lancashire Tourism Awards will once again take place in Blackburn Cathedral, the Cathedral of Lancashire, on Thursday 10 November, supported by Blackburn with Darwen Council.  The annual awards, celebrating excellence across a wide range of visitor economy businesses, reveal the brightest and best stars working in Lancashire […]

40 of Lancashire’s most respected best food producers, chefs, retailers, butchers, farmers and growers gathered this week to debate and discuss the future of Lancashire Food & Drink at an event led by Marketing Lancashire at Brockholes Conference Centre. Food writer and broadcaster with Lancastrian roots,  Matthew Fort, chaired the debate and urged the county […]

Following a year of significant growth and new developments Marketing Lancashire has appointed Maria Moriarty Eames as the company’s Head of Partnerships. Blackburn-born Maria will drive Marketing Lancashire’s commercial strategy, develop the corporate partnerships programme and lead the work of the partnerships team, which is responsible for growing Marketing Lancashire’s business relationships. Maria previously held […]

Overview: Marketing Lancashire is the destination management organisation for Lancashire; our activities in marketing and communications, commercial membership and place marketing are all designed to grow the volume and value of the county’s visitor economy and develop the profile of Lancashire as the first choice destination to visit, live, study, work and invest in.  It […]

Marketing Lancashire has appointed Creative Tourist, to develop a cultural tourism narrative for Lancashire, which will help raise the county’s profile as a year-round cultural destination. The development of cultural tourism reflects one of the key ambitions expressed in the county’s new Visitor Economy Strategy, which aims to increase annual visitors from 63million to 70million […]

Marketing Lancashire, has appointed specialist food and drink PR agency Lemon Zest PR, to help promote the region’s remarkable food and drink on a national and international level. The appointment of Lemon Zest forms part of a wider Lancashire Visitor Economy Strategy, which sets out a vision to establish Lancashire as a world class visitor […]