Tourism News

Tourism and hospitality businesses have been taking advantage of specialist training to help them to succeed in the group travel market.

This month, Visit County Durham delivered an interactive group travel course, providing businesses with top tips and inspiration on how to stand out in this highly competitive market.

Durham is a popular destination for group travel, with a great selection of group-friendly attractions and accommodation, along with a dramatic coastline, historic city and stunning countryside.

Durham City’s group travel offer is now even better thanks to the introduction of a new coach drop-off and pick-up point.

From this month, coach parties visiting the historic city will alight on the other side of the River Wear on Framwelgate Waterside instead of the former drop off point at Freeman’s Place.

Durham County Council has carried out the work and its tourism service, Visit County Durham, is now promoting the new location to coach operators, highlighting the vastly improved arrival experience it affords both visitors and drivers.

Tickets now on sale for ‘The Big Build’ Depot Open Days event 

16-18 June, Acton Town, west London 

• Visit London Transport Museum’s Depot in Acton – a working museum store full of amazing objects from London’s transport history  
• Enjoy a rare opportunity to explore the Depot at ‘The Big Build’ Depot Open Days event this June, with talks, tours, vehicle displays, and family activities  
• Peruse a vast collection of historic Tube trains, buses, maps, and signs
• Adult tickets costs £17.50 and £8.50 for children. Children aged 3 and under go free!
• Concessions available for local residents in Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon   
• Book in advance online at ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/depot/depot-open-days-big-build

View the RPO’s brand new 2023–24 London Season of concerts in our latest groups brochure (attached) – created especially for groups, with clear seating plans and group price charts listed for each venue.

Launched today (Wednesday, 3^rd May), and running to 14^th June inclusive, cruises included in the savings offer chances to seek out Lapland’s summertime wildlife, venture into the Arctic to witness the Midnight Sun, and to sail many size-restricted waterways including along Norway’s narrow Trollfjord and the Hudson River and Cape Cod Canal in America.

More than 50 cruises are included from May to December 2023, with departures available from Liverpool, Newcastle, Rosyth, Southampton and Dover, and ranging from two to 93-nights. Sailings start from £599 per person.