AWARDS RECORDS SMASHED AFTER EARLY LAUNCH Entries to the Tourism Awards have been broken again with 737 entries already received from across the South West and 133 from Bristol, Bath and Somerset. The news follows a period of major changes for the awards with new websites, shorter and online entry forms and a launch to industry nearly two months earlier than in the past. It also follows the organisers...

We’ve teamed up with Forthglade to launch the first ever South West Dog Friendly Pub award. So, if you run a dog friendly pub now is the time to get your visitors to nominate you and they will be in with a chance of winning a dog friendly package worth over £1,000.  Nominations must be made before 18 August and can be done here. Forthglade have produced free promotional material...

The organisers of the region’s Tourism Awards are celebrating today following news of their own Gold Award in the Awards Trust Mark scheme, making them the first awards scheme of any kind in the South West and the first tourism scheme in the country to win the accolade....

Tourism Awards Workshops To give entrants the best chance of success, a series of workshops have been laid on across the region, with tickets costing just £40pp. ...

We are delighted to announce that this years tourism awards are now open earlier than ever before, to give entrants time to complete their forms before the season starts in earnest....

Click here to see a short video from last year's Awards event and here for photos of the ceremony in 2018....