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The South East’s Best Tourism Businesses celebrate at The Awards

The South East’s Best Tourism Businesses celebrate at The Awards

The South East’s Best Tourism Businesses celebrate at The Beautiful South Awards 2019/20 It was celebrations all round for the winners of the last night’s Beautiful South Awards at The Grand Brighton hosted by travel journalist and broadcaster, Simon Calder. 80 of the very best tourism businesses and experiences in the South East were presented with gold, silver and bronze trophies in...

Simon Calder to host Beautiful South Tourism Awards 2019

For tourism businesses across the South East the wait is over. The finalists in the 2019/20 Beautiful South Awards have been chosen. This year saw a near record number of entries (170) in 23 categories from all parts of the region - 40% more than last year. They were shortlisted from their entry forms and mystery shopped by expert independent judges. Today 80 finalists were announced along with 24...

Finalists Announced

Finalists Announced for prestigious 2019/20 Beautiful South AwardsFor tourism businesses across the South East the wait is over. The finalists in the 2019/20 Beautiful South Awards have been chosen. This year saw a near record number of entries (170) in 23 categories from all parts of the region - 40% more than last year. They were shortlisted from their entry forms and mystery shopped by expert ...

How Stay Original Co. has grown its portfolio with Avondata

How Stay Original Co. has grown its portfolio with Avondata

The Stay Original Company was started eight years ago and now boasts a collection of beautiful hotels and inns in the South West. Since 2011 the team has been developing a number of old properties, turning them into original and stylish accommodation of all sizes, from gastro pubs to boutique hotels. Avon Data are proud to have been working with Stay Original Co. for just over two years and we caught...

Awards are now closed

The Tourism awards are now closed and we are delighted to announce that we have had a huge increase in entries across the board - 175 this year. The news follows a period of major changes for the awards with new websites, shorter and online entry forms and a launch to industry nearly two months earlier than in the past. Mark Smith, Chair of Tourism South East, said, “I’m blown away by...