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The winners of the 2010/11 Lancashire and Blackpool Tourism Awards took centre stage today, with TV wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan, host of the tourist board’s most hotly contested awards ceremony to date, held at the Mercure Dunkenhalgh Hotel, near Accrington. The Awards are supported by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). With more award categories […]

 Lancashire businesses recognised in top food awards A spring water business, an ice cream farm; a brewery; a cookie specialist and a healthy dessert company are the Lancashire businesses short-listed for this year’s prestigious Food Northwest Awards. Twelve of Lancashire’s fine food products are also named as winners in the Fine Food Northwest Awards 2010. […]

Northcote’s Head Chef Lisa Allen, crowned the winner for HRH! Winning the honour of cooking for The Prince of Wales in the final of this year’s BBC series, Great British Menu, is an amazing achievement. What makes it all the more remarkable is that Lisa Allen is the only Female chef to do so.  Battling […]

The results are in for the people’s choice – Best Tourism Event Award The Lancashire and Blackpool (LBTB) Tourism Awards 2010/11 are just a week away and the public have chosen their Best Tourism Event of the Year – the only finalists to be decided by visitors to Lancashire. Over 20,000 identified visitors to Lancashire […]

Blackpool FC Heroes welcome After an absence of thirty nine years the whole Fylde coast and North West is celebrating Blackpool FC’s  (Tangerines) return to the Premiership, following their triumphant 3-2 win over Cardiff in the Coca-Cola Championship Play Off  Final , at Wembley on Saturday 22 May. The team will have a heroes welcome […]

Picnic fun at Clitheroe Castle A FEAST of family fun and goodies galore will be on offer at Clitheroe Castle on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, when it hosts the Clitheroe Castle National Family Week Picnic. Thousands of picnickers are expected to converge on the Clitheroe Castle Field for the event, which marks the end of […]

New Orangery at The Gibbon Bridge Hotel 17th May 2010 – This week sees the unveiling of The Gibbon Bridge Hotel’s new Victorian-styled Orangery, a £250,000 investment to the hotel and labour of love by proprietor, Janet Simpson and The Gibbon Bridge team. Featuring large glass doors opening onto a spacious patio and the hotel’s […]

VISITENGLAND RESEARCH SHOWS STAYCATION HERE TO STAY Today, VisitEngland announces findings from the first significant research into the staycation phenomenon by the national tourist board.  Tourism statistics indicate that in 2009, England enjoyed an 18 per cent increase in the number of holiday trips taken with holiday makers spending £1bn more than in the previous […]

Work is well underway at Brockholes, a new Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near J31 of the M6 at Preston. Last December work began on the floating visitor centre. The designs by Adam Khan, chosen through a RIBA competition, are set to provide Lancashire with a new landmark that will attract visitors from all over the UK. […]

Guest Presenter – Really Wild about Lancashire Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board (LBTB) today announced that one of TV’s most popular and busy wildlife presenters, Michaela Strachan, will present the Lancashire and Blackpool Tourism Awards, taking place on Wednesday 09 June 2009 at the Mercure Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Nr Accrington. Michaela, who now lives in South […]

Lancashire Gold Winner: Blackpool Illuminations, Tourism Event of the Year  Lancashire Silver Winner: The Ashton, B&B, Lancaster Extracts from Visit England release follows : VisitEngland announces Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2010 winners The National Trust has scooped VisitEngland’s Outstanding Contribution to Tourism Award for its unswerving role as the bastion of some of England’s most beautiful and outstanding attractions. […]

VisitBritain has created a questionnaire to monitor the impact of the ash cloud on UK tourism. This will help VisitBritain to inform the Tourism Industry Emergency Response Group regarding appropriate messaging and response measures.If your business has been affected by the ash cloud then please take a couple of minutes to respond to the survey. Anything […]