New activities, marketing updates, industry insights and business opportunities from Visit North Yorkshire.
New Visit North Yorkshire Website
The new Visit North Yorkshire website has now gone live replacing our interim website and each of our legacy websites. The site has launched with a selection of features, and new functionality will be added over the coming months. We would encourage businesses who...
Drop In and See Us
Drop-In Sessions and Networking Opportunities Visit North Yorkshire is hosting a series of networking events and drop-in sessions throughout the year. These events will allow tourism businesses to meet the Visit North Yorkshire team, find out about partnership...
New Head of Tourism for Visit North Yorkshire
Tony Watson joins North Yorkshire Council as Head of Tourism at the end of March 2025 to head up the Visit North Yorkshire team. Here’s a welcome from Tony: I wanted to take the opportunity to say hello before starting my new role at the end of March. Tourism and...
Whitby Restaurant Week debuts with great success
Following the success of similar events in Harrogate and Selby, Whitby Restaurant Week provided the perfect opportunity for restaurants, cafés, tearooms, and bars across Whitby to attract residents and visitors to dine somewhere new at an affordable price. Eateries...
Upcoming North Yorkshire Literature Exchange Events
North Yorkshire accommodation providers are invited to attend two upcoming literature exchange events at Newby Hall, Ripon and Eden Camp Modern History Museum, Malton. These events allow B&Bs and hotel owners to collect promotional materials from a diverse range...
Sustainability Spotlight: SEA LIFE Scarborough
Sustainability is one of the guiding principles embedded throughout the North Yorkshire Destination Management Plan (DMP). Our partners are already leading the way with some impressive projects and initiatives, so we are excited to shine a spotlight on some great...
English Tourism Week 2025
How Your Tourism Business Can Benefit from English Tourism Week 2025 English Tourism Week is an annual celebration of the tourism industry, organised by VisitEngland to showcase its importance to local communities and the economy. Running from March 14 to March 23,...
Taking North Yorkshire to The Netherlands
This January 2025 saw the Visit North Yorkshire team attend the Vakantiebeurs Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands alongside stand partners Make it York, the North York Moors National Park, and Castle Howard. Vakantiebeurs is an internationally renowned annual...
Visit North Yorkshire’s first Christmas campaign
2024 saw the launch of our first county-wide destination festive marketing campaign, ‘Christmas in North Yorkshire’. Running from September to December 2024, the objective of the campaign was to raise the profile of North Yorkshire. The campaign’s key audience was...
Twenty-Four great things we did in 2024
2024 was certainly a busy year for Visit North Yorkshire. Over the last 12-months we have achieved some great things, delivered successful projects and campaigns and hit significant milestones in the development of the new destination management and marketing...