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Did you know that Lancashire with over 60 million annual visitors is the most visited county in the North West, and each year welcomes more visitors to its country, coast and city attractions than The Lake District?  The new Lancashire Visitor Guide is our invitation to experience Lancashire’s great hospitality and to plan your next […]

Simon Entwistle, current holder of Marketing Lancashire’s Lancashire Tourism Awards Special Recognition Award, is one of just ten finalists for the national Visit England Tourism Superstar 2013 award and now needs the public to vote him to victory.   This new tourism accolade, launched in 2012 as part of English Tourism Week, recognises exceptional characters […]

Marketing Lancashire, the organisation created to promote the county as an excellent place to visit, live, work, study and invest in, today announced the appointment of its new non-executive board directors from the private sector, who will play a key role in the strategic direction of Marketing Lancashire and the realisation of the company’s ambitions […]

On Wednesday 30 January The Villa, Wrea Green, will host the first Taste Lancashire Produce Event of 2013 with a menu created by Head Chef, Matthew Johnson who features local producer, Pugh’s Piglets.    Marketing Lancashire’s Taste Lancashire Produce dining events, in partnership with some of the county’s finest restaurants, help demonstrate the abundance of […]

This year Marketing Lancashire, in partnership with Dewlay Cheesemakers,  launched a mini profile-raising campaign called ‘Say Cheese For Lancashire Day’, inviting visitors, members and Lancashire businesses to load ‘smiley’ pictures to Visit Lancashire’s Facebook and Twitter streams.  West End star and Blackpool-Born Jodie Prenger, opening that day at the Blackpool Grand Theatre in One Man, […]

Marketing Lancashire has launched a mobile version of its essential guide to Lancashire, offering visitors access to accommodation providers, attractions, places to eat, special offers and inspiration while on the move. Visitlancashire.com has over 1million unique visitors a year and 25% of these people visit the website on mobile devices.  The new mobile visitlancashire.com will […]

The Awards The Lancashire Tourism Awards took place on Thursday 13 September at the Guild Hall in Preston, as part of the city’s Guild Year celebrations.  Following his own successful Vintage Weekend, held in Preston’s stunning Avenham Park, design guru Wayne Hemingway MBE was back in the city and delighted to present awards to Lancashire’s […]

PRIDE OF LANCASHIRE On 27 November 2012, Marketing Lancashire raises a proud toast to this year’s Lancashire Tourism Award winners as part of our Lancashire Day celebrations.  In the weeks following the awards, new Chief Executive, Ruth Connor has managed to visit quite a few of them, to learn more about their business and what’s […]

Marketing Lancashire today launched a social media campaign to help raise awareness of Lancashire Day, 27 November.  On this date in 1295, the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I and helped form what later became known as “The Model Parliament,” England’s first legally elected legislature.  This historic date […]

It’s full steam ahead for East Lancashire Railway’s (ELR’s) 88 volunteers who have all successfully completed Welcome Host training, part of the nationally recognised Welcome to Excellence customer service training programme, delivered by Marketing Lancashire. Welcome Host is one of the country’s most successful customer service training initiatives and helps delegates acquire new customer service […]

As the nights draw in and thoughts turn to Halloween, visitors to Lancashire can expect some top quality, spine-tingling thrills thanks to some of the county’s foremost purveyors of dark tourism and winners of prestigious Lancashire Tourism Awards 2012. World class scream park, Farmaggedon, took the coveted Best Visitor Experience of the Year award at […]

The popular BBC2 antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Blackpool. Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of two million viewers each weekday. The Blackpool Tower Circus will be hosting the Flog It! Valuation Day.  Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public […]