Welcome to the Autumn 2008 Time for Tourism Newsletter and the first electronic version. To all our Norfolk Tourism partners we hope you enjoy this new format and ask that you please cascade this to your individual members with the suggestion to sign up to receive all future issues.
This issue contains information on the new Norfolk Tourism Team, networking events to attend, marketing and training opportunities plus a round-up of the summer tourism events that captured visitor imaginations here and abroad. We hope you enjoy it and sign up for the next issue in the Spring. |
| TEAM NEWS |
Norfolk Tourism's New Team
 It's full steam ahead for the Norfolk Tourism team of four - with leisure and business tourism joining forces across the county.
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N&N Conference Bureau
 Since it began in July 2005, Norwich and Norfolk Conference Bureau has attracted almost 400 enquiries potentially worth £2.8m to Norfolk.
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Broadland Council Appoints Rosie Carter as Tourism Co-ordinator.
The focus of her work will be to promote the market towns and the cultural offer of the district as well as working to improve quality standards. Contact her on 01603 430563 or email rosie.carter@broadland.gov.uk. |
| EVENTS |
Norfolk Tourism Awards
 And the winner is… find out at the Fourth Annual EDP Tourism in Norfolk Awards
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Annual Review Meeting
6 November -
Tourism is a £2.3 billion industry in Norfolk supporting some 40,000 jobs.
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| MARKETING |
Norfolk Travel Trade Manual
Bigger and better than ever, the 2009 Travel Trade Manual due out in November is the only countywide publication dedicated to the group travel market.
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Exhibitions – Raising Norfolk's Profile
The latest market research on Exhibitions shows you have to be in it to win it.
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www.visitnorfolk.co.uk developments
New pages and top Google rankings pushed visitor numbers higher than ever on Norfolk's most popular county-wide website.
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Norfolk Tourism Business Survey 2008
 Thank you to everyone who completed the 2007 Business Survey. We had an excellent response and the information collated gave a valuable insight.
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| TRAINING |
Norfolk Tourism Leads the Way on Training
Looking for specialist Tourism Training but don't know where to start?
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Broadland Council Training Services, BCTS, will be offering small to medium sized businesses across the county the chance to improve staff skills. A series of five, 3-hour sessions on sujects such as IT, Marketing, Customer Service and Business Law will be delivered at venues around the county. Contact Hannah on 01603 788950 or business@broadland.gov.uk |
| SUMMER ROUND UP |
Norfolk Summer Tourism Round Up
It's been an exciting time this summer as Norfolk became one of the UK's more exotic destinations. From Go Elephants! in Norwich to giraffes at Banham Zoo and crocodiles in Cromer's new Amazona Zoo, the county was animal crazy, and also offered plenty of local species at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, home of BBC Springwatch.
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It's Official, Brits Are Less Boring. Why do they say that the English always talk about the weather? Well last week I met a foreign national, who surprised me by laughing and saying, "Well you guys have much more to talk about now than the weather" Curious to explore this comment further I asked him exactly what he meant.