Rewarding Tourism
ExSEllence
The 2008 Tourism ExSEllence Awards programme, the regional heat of the national Enjoy England
Awards for Excellence, saw further growth in terms of the volume and quality of businesses entering
the programme, the value of PR that it generated and the level of sponsorship the awards attracted.
a dedicated website getdiscovered2008.co.uk was developed to
congratulations to both Blenheim Palace and royal Windsor Tourist
support the awards programme in a number of ways, including
Information centre who went on to secure silver awards at the
helping to make entry as easy as possible. It received over 7000
national Enjoy England awards for Excellence on the 23 april 2009.
visitors representing nearly three quarters of tourism businesses in
the South East.
The Gala dinner and awards ceremony, hosted by Simon calder,
TOURISM SOUTH EAST
also saw a growth of 15% in ticket sales over the previous year,
TOURISM EXSELLENCE
contributing to a total growth of 80% in the last three years. The event
has become one of the most significant in the tourism event calendar.
WINNER
SailnetUK Ltd
The Macdonald Compleat Angler
The Gardeners Rest
Royal Windsor Information Centre
Blenheim Palace
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