Welcome from South West Tourism

South West Tourism welcomes you to your first FREE ‘Tourism Industry News’ designed to bring you latest tourism trends, research, laws, events and vital tourism breaking news.

As many of you may be aware we have an emerging new structure to support the tourism industry in the South West region. Destination management organisations will deal with your local needs, and South West Tourism, as the regional tourist board, will concentrate on the key strategic, regional and national issues helping to ensure our industry thrives.

We understand how important it is to maintain our engagement with our existing members and the wider industry in the South West, so we can work towards:

• Helping to make the region a better place to visit
• Understanding the needs of our visitors
• Raising the profile of the region and what it offers to potential visitors
• Making the region more competitive and productive by offering practical advice, latest news and updates about our Government lobbying.

Tourism Industry News will be a monthly e-newsletter, which will enable you to ‘Have your Say’ on current tourism topics, so please remember to comment or send any feedback on articles featured.

We are also keen to hear from you about what you want from a regional tourism industry website and what information will help you and your business. Therefore if you have time to complete our short online survey we would be very grateful.

To view the survey please visit the following link:
http://www.visitsouthwest.co.uk/swtresearch/survey/swt/web.htm

I hope you enjoy the first edition.

Malcolm Bell
Chief Executive of South West Tourism