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It’s full steam ahead for East Lancashire Railway’s (ELR’s) 88 volunteers who have all successfully completed Welcome Host training, part of the nationally recognised Welcome to Excellence customer service training programme, delivered by Marketing Lancashire. Welcome Host is one of the country’s most successful customer service training initiatives and helps delegates acquire new customer service […]

As the nights draw in and thoughts turn to Halloween, visitors to Lancashire can expect some top quality, spine-tingling thrills thanks to some of the county’s foremost purveyors of dark tourism and winners of prestigious Lancashire Tourism Awards 2012. World class scream park, Farmaggedon, took the coveted Best Visitor Experience of the Year award at […]

The popular BBC2 antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is coming to Blackpool. Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of two million viewers each weekday. The Blackpool Tower Circus will be hosting the Flog It! Valuation Day.  Rather like a treasure hunt, members of the public […]

The winners of the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2012/13 were announced last night (Thursday 13 September 2012) at the Guild Hall, Preston in the first formal event organised by Marketing Lancashire, the new company charged with promoting the county as a great place to visit, work, invest and live in. The evening was hosted by guest […]

Marketing Lancashire is pleased to announce that acclaimed fashion designer and style guru Wayne Hemingway MBE will be guest presenter at the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2012/13 which will be held at The Guild Hall, Preston on Thursday 13 September 2012.     Wayne Hemingway MBE was born in Morecambe, Lancashire and established his fashion label Red or […]

As the Olympic Games came to a spectacular close on Sunday 12 August, Marketing Lancashire and VisitEngland were putting final touches to a two day tour of Lancashire, which was offered to unaccredited media through the London Media Centre. Hundreds of unaccredited media arrived in England to cover the social and cultural events surrounding the […]

Marketing Lancashire, the organisation created to promote the county as a great place to visit, work and invest, has announced the appointment of its first Chief Executive. Ruth Connor, previously Managing Director of Shearings Holidays, is taking up the key role this month. She will work alongside Paul Heathcote, recently appointed as Chairman, to spearhead […]

This year, British Food Fortnight coincides with the start of the Olympics so what better way to celebrate Team GB than with a feast of home grown goodies. Running from 27 July until 12 August, British Food Fortnight is the definitive national celebration of food. So it is the perfect time to promote your food […]

SCHOOLS OUT – EVENTS ARE IN! ………..you’ll find them in Marketing Lancashire’s handy summer calendar, The Big Event with hundreds more on the visitlancashire.com, an easy to use, searchable database of things to do and places to visit – many of which are FREE. Fetes, festivals, outdoor performances and even a world record-breaking attempt make […]

The Sparrowhawk in Fence, is the final venue in Marketing Lancashire’s Taste Lancashire Produce spring/summer dining programme, and offers a truly traditional Lancashire menu for diners on Wednesday 11 July 2012. Marketing Lancashire’s Taste Lancashire Produce dining events, in partnership with some of the county’s finest restaurants, help demonstrate the abundance of superb produce available […]

Brockholes Nature Reserve has won three awards at Britain’s architecture Oscars. The Visitor Village, at the Lancashire Wildlife Trust reserve, off the M6 at Preston, was chosen as the North West’s Building of the Year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) at a ceremony at the Queens Hotel in Leeds, last night. And […]

MAKE, TASTE & TALK AT THE GUILD FOOD FESTIVAL! Taste buds are set to be tickled all over Lancashire, on 1 and 2 September, as the Preston Guild 2012 SQUARE FOOD FESTIVAL on Preston’s beautiful Winckley Square showcases some of the region’s finest food and drink. The festival, which is set to be a fitting […]