Latest News (Business Support) - English Riviera Trade

In a significant step to support the recovery of the tourism industry across Devon, South West Water have pledged a £1.2 million Destination Marketing Recovery Fund over the next three years, to be managed by the English Riviera BID Company.

A new free online software tool is being launched to provide tourism businesses with access to a vast range of data from many different sources showing sector and visitor trends.

Visit England have published the results of their latest Annual Attractions Survey.  The survey covers trends for attractions in England regarding visitor numbers and profiles, entrance fees, marketing, funding, and more.

Partners including the ERBID Company have joined forced to promote and manage the growth of Devon's local visitor economy.

Business, hospitality and tourism came together earlier this month with the first Riviera Connect EXPO. 

Local tourism and hospitality businesses got together in early July at a series of ERBID destination marketing focus groups. The aim of the meetings was to present ERBID's destination marketing activities to date, and to gather feedback and fresh ideas from BID partners, ahead of making destination marketing decisions for 2024.