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Marketing Lancashire, the county’s destination management organisation (DMO), is leading on a new Visitor Economy Strategy (VES) and Destination Management Plan (DMP) for Lancashire and has appointed specialist consultants Blue Sail, to develop the strategy and plan. Blue Sail is a company renowned nationally for the successful delivery of visitor economy strategies and was selected […]

Winners of Marketing Lancashire’s Lancashire Tourism Awards 2013, who progressed to the national Visit England Awards for Excellence 2014, have brought silver honours back to the county. Bleasdale Holiday Cottages (Forest of Bowland), Sandcastle Waterpark (Blackpool) and The Parkers Arms (Clitheroe) were all awarded silver at the 25th Annual Visit England Awards which took place […]

Marketing Lancashire, the county’s destination management organisation, has provided a platform on the company’s top performing visitor website visitlancashire.com for the county’s many events marking the centenary of World War One 1914-1918, following a request from the pan–Lancashire WW1 Commemorative Group for a single resource for events and local information related to the 100th anniversary.  […]

Celebrating the finest in the Tourism Industry: VisitEngland Reveals Finalists for 2014 VisitEngland Awards for Excellence  Today, during English Tourism Week, VisitEngland announces the finalists for the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2014. The Awards celebrate the very best England has to offer and the winners of this prestigious accolade will be announced the Award Ceremony […]

WELCOME TO MORECAMBE BAY Helping to transform the Bay in 700 days Welcome to Morecambe Bay, a new and bespoke customer service training course, was launched on Monday 24 March at The Midland Hotel, Morecambe by Marketing Lancashire, Cumbria Tourism and the Morecambe Bay Partnership, as part of the partnership’s 700 Days to Transform The […]

Marketing Lancashire is calling on all Lancastrians to help create Lancashire’s Hall of Fame as partof a VisitEngland national campaign to find the country’s ‘great and the good’. From the country’s most notorious witch hunt in Pendle to spearheading the Industrial Revolution, Lancashire has played a huge part in the shaping of England’s history.  Add […]

Marketing Lancashire, the destination management organisation for Lancashire, is working with Creative England, to help raise the profile of the many unique and photogenic locations and venues available in and around the county, for television and film-makers. Creative England supports creative ideas, talent and businesses in film, TV, games and digital media and, as part […]

“Our hope is that the old home, so very dearly loved, may soon become a centre for education, crafts knowledge and beauty; a joy and benefit to many people.” Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth On 17 February 2014, the anniversary of Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth’s birth (17 February 1886), Gawthorpe Textiles Collection will launch an exclusive range of […]

Marketing Lancashire, the county’s Destination Management Organisation, in partnership with the Burnley Bondholders and Burnley Borough Council, has created a new and bespoke Welcome to Excellence training programme, Welcome to Burnley, which will see up to 500 participants take part in the destination’s biggest single initiative to develop customer service excellence and improve product knowledge […]

  Marketing Lancashire, the county’s Destination Management Organisation, has added a further two dates to its second series of FREE inspirational workshops led by Kate Hardcastle – due to increased demand for her no-nonsense approach to great customer service and achieving business success. The additional workshops will take place in the impressive, classical surroundings of […]

 Over 13 Million people shared in the VisitLancashire ‘Say Cheese For Lancashire Day’ social media campaign, organised by Marketing Lancashire in partnership with visitor attractions Dewlay Cheese Shop  and  Bashall Barn Visitor Food Centre. The campaign, to celebrate all things Lancastrian and to promote Lancashire Day*, invited visitors to share photographs or ‘selfies’ of themselves […]

Marketing Lancashire, the county’s Destination Management Organisation, has a new member on the team, former semi-pro Nottingham RFC and Fylde RFC rugby player, Nicholas King. Nick, 38, originally of Nuneaton in the Midlands joins Marketing Lancashire as Head of Business Development and brings his experience both on the field and with digital marketing agencies and […]