Our Press Releases
The Lancashire Tourism Awards return to Blackburn Cathedral in 2016
Marketing Lancashire is proud to announce that the Lancashire Tourism Awards will once again take place in Blackburn Cathedral, the Cathedral of Lancashire, on Thursday 10 November, supported by Blackburn with Darwen Council. The annual awards, celebrating excellence across a wide range of visitor economy businesses, reveal the brightest and best stars working in Lancashire […]
Marketing Lancashire Reveals Plans to Put Lancashire on the Culinary Map
40 of Lancashire’s most respected best food producers, chefs, retailers, butchers, farmers and growers gathered this week to debate and discuss the future of Lancashire Food & Drink at an event led by Marketing Lancashire at Brockholes Conference Centre. Food writer and broadcaster with Lancastrian roots, Matthew Fort, chaired the debate and urged the county […]
New Head of Partnerships for Marketing Lancashire
Following a year of significant growth and new developments Marketing Lancashire has appointed Maria Moriarty Eames as the company’s Head of Partnerships. Blackburn-born Maria will drive Marketing Lancashire’s commercial strategy, develop the corporate partnerships programme and lead the work of the partnerships team, which is responsible for growing Marketing Lancashire’s business relationships. Maria previously held […]
Research Tender – Lancashire Visitor Survey and Segmentation Study
Overview: Marketing Lancashire is the destination management organisation for Lancashire; our activities in marketing and communications, commercial membership and place marketing are all designed to grow the volume and value of the county’s visitor economy and develop the profile of Lancashire as the first choice destination to visit, live, study, work and invest in. It […]
Marketing Lancashire appoints Creative Tourist to help develop county as year-round cultural destination
Marketing Lancashire has appointed Creative Tourist, to develop a cultural tourism narrative for Lancashire, which will help raise the county’s profile as a year-round cultural destination. The development of cultural tourism reflects one of the key ambitions expressed in the county’s new Visitor Economy Strategy, which aims to increase annual visitors from 63million to 70million […]
Lemon Zest specialist food PR agency appointed
Marketing Lancashire, has appointed specialist food and drink PR agency Lemon Zest PR, to help promote the region’s remarkable food and drink on a national and international level. The appointment of Lemon Zest forms part of a wider Lancashire Visitor Economy Strategy, which sets out a vision to establish Lancashire as a world class visitor […]
Spotlight on Lancashire’s Heritage City
The new Lancashire Visitor Economy Strategy 2015 -2020, developed by Marketing Lancashire and following considerable consultation with stakeholders, identifies the city of Lancaster as one of the best opportunities for visitor economy growth in the county. The city’s heritage assets, cultural offering and geographical location provide the essential ingredients for Lancaster to become a key […]
Winning smiles for English Tourism Week
Marketing Lancashire’s finale to English Tourism Week (5-13 March) was the official presentation of the VIP prize to the winner of the #LancashireDay photography challenge. The presentation took place at Ribby Hall Village with the winner David Fort and his family on Saturday 12 March. English Tourism Week is organised by VisitEngland and is a […]
Silver, Bronze and Highly Commended for Lancashire at the national awards
The winners of the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2016 were revealed at its 27th annual ceremony held last night at Winter Gardens Blackpool. Celebrating excellence across the industry, the prestigious ceremony – held for the first time this year during English Tourism Week – announced 16 winners including Best Tourism Experience, Best Visitor Attraction and […]
The Great British Sewing Bee’s Patrick Grant to showcase new Community Label at BOBNorth
The Best of Britannia (BOB) team is delighted to announce that British fashion designer Patrick Grant and popular judge from BBC Two’s The Great British Sewing Bee, will be showcasing his new Community range to the public for the first time at BOBNorth (12-13 March) in Preston. Commenting on this announcement Patrick Grant said: "I […]
Preston potter to officially open BOB North event
After a hugely successful debut event in 2015, Best of Britannia (BOB) heads back to Preston, Lancashire with a bigger and better BOB North (11-13 March 2016), promoting the best of British Manufacturers from across the North of England and beyond. Best of Britannia is supported by Creative Lancashire, Marketing Lancashire, Preston City Council and […]
Northern Powerhouse Tourism Reception
On Tuesday 09 February, Politicians and Business Influencers attended a House of Commons reception celebrating the on-going success of the £20M Northern Tourism Growth Fund (NTGF). The event was hosted by VisitEngland Chair Lady Cobham CBE, on behalf of 38 Northern England Destinations and their business partners. Invited guests heard from Minister for Tourism the […]