Supporting the industry

Sponsors & Partners

The Bristol, Bath & Somerset Awards (inc Glos) programme offers sponsors and partners a range of year-round benefits, including web links, media coverage, industry profile, communications with business, networking and business development opportunities with Services for Tourism Ltd. Benefits start when we launch each spring, continuing for 12 months until the following spring.

There are a range of options ranging from £500 to £5000.  Information on 25/26 opportunities are available here.  For more information please contact Robin Barker, Services for Tourism Ltd, at rbarker@services4tourism.co.uk or 07870 397438.

Tozers

Tozers are the award-winning leading lawyers when it comes to park law. As legal advisers to the British Holiday and Home Parks Association for over 65 years, we are at the cutting edge of legal developments affecting the parks industry. Our dedicated and experienced team advise parks businesses small and large, throughout England and Wales, on a wide range of issues.

We offer a comprehensive legal service for both our commercial and private clients, always staying one step ahead and seeking new perspectives, which is why we are one of the top-rated law firms.

We put our clients first. We’re Tozers, thoughtful legal partners for a changing world.

Touch Stay

Touch Stay transforms your traditional house manual or welcome binder into a sleek, digital format that’s simple to use and effortlessly customisable. Add your own logo and colours, and include as much content as you need – whether it’s text, photos, videos, or links. With features like AI assistant to populate the guides in no time, AI chatbot to quickly answer guest questions, and the upsell widget to offer more and earn additional income, Touch Stay takes your guest experience to the next level.

Share your digital guidebook seamlessly with your guests through your pre-arrival emails, allowing them to access all the essential information directly from their device.

Visit Exmoor

Visit Exmoor works on behalf of businesses and partners to promote the Greater Exmoor area to visitors. It is the guardian of the Exmoor brand and works to promote an area including the Quantock Hills, West Somerset and Exmoor National Park. As the largest tourism industry body in the area, Visit Exmoor believes passionately in the delivery of high quality visitor experiences, and so is thrilled to be a sponsor. Visit Exmoor is a key player in helping to shape the work of the Hinkley Tourism Action Partnership and ensuring that the area benefits from the development of Hinkley Point C.

airband

Tourism is a vital part of the South West economy, combining amazing locations, iconic towns and cities , and beautiful landscapes. Airband is here to support you , even when the weather is not behaving !

As a leading provider of high speed fibre broadband solutions and innovative fixed wireless access, Airband specialise in connecting businesses from remote areas through to busy urban areas. Anywhere that traditional infrastructure falls short, Airband can provide your business with high quality , high speed broadband , combining telephony and innovative wi-fi solutions for your outdoor spaces

We partner with tourism businesses of all sizes, from B&B’s & hotels through to glamping , caravan & lodge parks. Our dedicated B2B services can be tailored to meet the unique demands of your operations

Be Somerset

Your stories. Your music. Your county. Be part of something special.

Be Somerset is a new, online radio station for the people of Somerset and beyond, sharing unmissable, big-hearted conversation, and carefully curated music. Until live broadcasts begin in the second half of 2025, there are wonderful interviews to listen to, on demand.With thousands of listeners already tuning into the conversations, head to besomerset.com to be part of it.

Be Somerset Radio is brought to you by Be Somerset Broadcasts C.I.C.

What’s On Somerset

Somerset. We love it. We live in it. We write about it. We entreat people to savour this remarkable county, the land of the summer people.

What’s on Somerset is delighted to be associated with the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards. Talent and hard work deserves recognition and accolations.

Metpow

Metpow is delighted to sponsor the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards. From our base in Topsham, we work closely with parks across the South West to bring modern energy management to camping and touring sites. Our wireless metering system connects directly to each pitch, so guests can see and pay for their electricity in real time, and operators can reduce costs, recover investments quickly, and improve sustainability. We’re already supporting leading businesses across Somerset and beyond, helping them meet rising energy challenges with practical, innovative solutions.

By working together, we make the region’s tourism offer stronger and fairer.

Bristol Airport

The West Country is blessed with fantastic tourist attractions, from beautiful natural landscape to culture, history and entertainment. Bristol Airport provides a convenient gateway for visitors, and the good news is that those flying directly into the region are likely to stay longer and spend more, benefiting the local economy. Creating a positive first impression for visitors is at the heart of our brand and a key consideration in the designs of current terminal developments. The West’s world-class tourism offer is also a key factor in attracting new routes and airlines to Bristol Airport. For all these reasons, we are delighted to sponsor these awards and wish all entrants the best of luck.

Hullabaloos

We believe that simple pleasures are important. We keep things simple with our traditional methods and natural recipes. Each bottle is made by hand in the South West, using real ingredients with No Baddies and No Bubbles needed.

Hullabaloos Drinks will leave a tingle on your tongue and make your taste buds come alive. Each and every drink is packed full of real fruit juice and come in a variety of Award Winning, tongue tingling flavours. They taste great on their own or can be used as a mixer to take cocktails to the next level.

Vickery Holman

As one of the most established and well respected firms of Surveyors, Vickery Holman deliver property consultancy services across the South West. With offices in Truro, Plymouth, Exeter and Bristol they deliver local expertise within the region to their regional and national clients. Regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors their local experts offer a full range of services and specialise within the leisure industry to provide:-

Commercial sales, acquisitions as well as business rates consultancy for hotels, holiday parks and self-catering complexes.

Service charge administration and management for commercial property and holiday parks;
Valuation for secured lending, accounting and tax purposes;
Building surveying services including surveys for purchase, project management and planned maintenance and new developments.

Age UK Somerset

Age UK Somerset is the largest charity working with and for older people in Somerset and North Somerset.  We are an independent local charity responsible for raising all our own funds which are only spent in the area.   With our local population increasing in age (in our area – Somerset and North Somerset –  1 in 4 of the population will be 65+ within 3 years. Nationally this doesn’t happen for another 20 years), our role to promote the wellbeing and independence of older people and add value to later life, is more important now than ever.

With the wide variety of services we offer (including information & advice, 100s of exercise sessions, a befriending service to reduce loneliness, toe nail cutting, benefit claims assistance, projects to get and keep people out of hospital), we put the needs of older people at the heart of what we do.  We are delighted to sponsor this award to find tourism businesses that are taking the same approach.

VisitWest

Visit West is the accredited Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP) for the West of England.  It brings together the business communities, local and regional authorities, with the domestic and international travel industry, and key strategic partners, to create a strategically focused and innovative delivery organisation with the clear purpose of developing a year-round sustainable visitor economy.

As well as operating the consumer brands of Visit Bath and Visit Bristol, Visit West delivers the Meet Bristol and Bath Convention Bureau, a comprehensive programme of travel trade activity and business engagement through events, and business support.

Quality In Tourism

Working with hospitality, tourism and leisure businesses, QiT provides the expertise and advice needed to quantify and improve business performance. From mystery shopping to quality assessment, sustainability reviews and market advice, our industry experts are available to share advice and guidance, benchmark businesses, and identify opportunities for improvement. We pride ourselves on looking at a business from the outside-in, looking at it from a customer perspective, from a community perspective, from an employee perspective and from a competitive perspective.

Helping businesses become the best they can be. We are not inspectors, we are not auditors, we are your businesses support team and your cheerleaders rolled into one.

WECIL

WECIL is an award winning, user led organisation supporting Disabled people to live the life they choose. Our approach is fully person centred. Our staff have lived experience and this informs the support we offer.
We challenge the barriers to independent living through the delivery of high-quality support and advice. We:
  • Provide a service for all Disabled people, whatever their background or needs;
  • Lead in best practice for the delivery and development of services that support Independent Living;
  • Deliver value for members, funders and service users by providing services that make a difference to people’s lives;
  • Challenge barriers to Independent Living wherever we encounter them;
  • Include the views and opinions of all the people who use our services in everything we do;
  • Are seen as the first place to go by anyone looking for support for Independent Living.

Anytime Booking

Anytime is an innovative online booking and management software, powering the outdoor holiday market around the clock. We support hundreds of campsites, holiday parks, glamping sites, motorhome hire businesses and holiday let agencies all around the UK. Our multi-accommodation focus is one of our key differentiators in this market, along with our reputation for having the fastest and highest quality support.

Save precious time with automation, live availability and payments, intuitive dashboard and reporting, and integrated guest services. Drive up sales using our carefully selected partnerships with leading distributors like campsites.co.uk, Cool Camping, Pitch Up, TXGB and Rentals United. If you need a new website, create one with our new drag and drop website builder – beautiful results with no need to code! Fully supported from our HQ in Cornwall, our cloud-based platform is mobile-friendly and is racked, stacked and packed with all the tools a busy holiday business needs to stand out and thrive.

Sunflower Social Media

Sunflower Social Media is delighted to support this year’s Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards.  Located in the South West, Sunflower Social Media supports a wide range of businesses, helping them to maximise the return from their social media.

Making time for social media can be hard.  Only you can run your business the way you know how and so we create and implement social media strategies for you, sourcing content and dealing with all your engagement and community growth, leaving you to do what you do the best.

Agilysys 

Agilysys helps properties optimise Return on Experience for guests and staff so they can achieve High Return Hospitality. Agilysys is the only hospitality software provider that synthesises data and workflows to elevate guest experiences and increase wallet share across a singular platform.

Knowing more about guests’ preferences provides personal, efficient service, leading to greater job satisfaction and retention. Guests who feel known do more, spend more and recommend more as champions of your property.

The Agilysys Hospitality Cloud™ combines core operational systems for property management, point-of-sale, and inventory and procurement with Experience Enhancers™ for mobile convenience and extensive digital interactions.

Booking.com

At Booking.com, we combine 20+ years of industry experience with continuous data-backed insights to provide you with the services, products and support you need to grow your business. That’s why we offer the tools, visibility and round-the-clock support you might not get on your own.

We’re proud to be the world’s number one accommodation site for bookings. More than 1.5 million room nights are booked on Booking.com every single day. With such a large customer base, we can help you reach a vast audience of potential guests, from every corner of the globe – meaning you have access to entire new markets, all in one place.