The Grand Brighton

The Grand Brighton sits on the iconic Victorian seafront as the city’s landmark hotel. Opened in 1864 as the original ‘palace by the sea’, today the 201-bedroom independent hotel is home to contemporary design-led spaces and famously outstanding service. Enjoy award-winning afternoon teas in the sun-soaked Victoria Terrace, ready to eat picnics to explore Brighton, epic Sunday roasts with all the trimmings, a locally-sourced and seasonal dining menu in Cyan, delicious cocktails and night caps in the bar, and more. The hotel also holds gold accreditation from the Meetings Industry Association, and is home to 13 flexible event spaces.

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Visit Brighton

VisitBrighton is the official tourism body for the city of Brighton & Hove.

We promote Brighton & Hove to visitors from the UK and around the world through a variety of means including:

• public relations and press liaison
• print and online marketing
• seasonal thematic campaigns.

Our website - www.visitbrighton.com - receives over 2 million unique visits a year and is the number one website for the city providing visitors with information on where to stay, what to do and where to eat out.

VisitBrighton also has a dedicated Conference Sales team to stimulate business tourism. We also manage the official VisitBrighton Contact Centre and Visitor Information Points.

Pear

Pear has existed for a number of years and from our humble beginnings, we slowly became the largest print distribution agency in the UK. We connected 1000’s of brands to new audiences,  help them reach the local market both during and post-covid, and engaged their visitors on multiple levels.

Pear expanded into several partner companies - giving multiple branches for our clients’ marketing needs.
Now, all of the brands you knew and loved are coming under one Pear-tree to make Pear Marketing. A full-service, multi-disciplinary marketing powerhouse that offers a full range of in-house offline and online marketing services.

Anytime Booking

Anytime is an innovative online booking and management software, powering the outdoor holiday market around the clock. We support hundreds of campsites, holiday parks, glamping sites, motorhome hire businesses and holiday let agencies all around the UK. Our multi-accommodation focus is one of our key differentiators in this market, along with our reputation for having the fastest and highest quality support.

Save precious time with automation, live availability and payments, intuitive dashboard and reporting, and integrated guest services. Drive up sales using our carefully selected partnerships with leading distributors like campsites.co.uk, Cool Camping, Pitch Up, TXGB and Rentals United. If you need a new website, create one with our new drag and drop website builder - beautiful results with no need to code! Fully supported from our HQ in Cornwall, our cloud-based platform is mobile-friendly and is racked, stacked and packed with all the tools a busy holiday business needs to stand out and thrive.

Lovetovisit.com

Lovetovisit.com is the revolutionary new way for people to discover and book things to do. Using the latest cutting-edge technology and industry insight, the platform promotes attractions, theatres, events, tours, destinations, and experiences to millions of monthly users.

Brimming with curated content, the user journey on Lovetovisit.com is simple: inspire, book, experience. Written by a team of in-house journalists, this content is engaging and inclusive – in turn, driving visitor numbers and ticket sales across the UK.

Operating a results-based model for partners and an on-booking experience for consumers, Lovetovisit.com ensures that everyone wins.

ADA Cosmetics

ADA Cosmetics International is one of the world’s leaders in guest cosmetics. For over 40 years we have been setting standards, inspiring the hospitality industry with the finest body care products for their discerning guests. Our aim is to make cosmetics a sensory and memorable experience for your guests.

ADA Cosmetics offers a unique and wide range of body care products and accessories. From collaborations with luxury retail brands such as Asprey, Lalique, Penhaligon’s and The White Company, to our own distinctive lifestyle and sustainable brands, we have a solution for every establishment including hotels, spas, B&B’s, holiday rentals and restaurants.

Innovation such as practical and eco-friendly dispenser solutions is at the forefront of what we do. ADA’s customer-centric thinking and pioneering role in issues like sustainability, has earnt us a reputation as a visionary leader in guest cosmetics.

Southampton Business School

Southampton Business School (SBS) is part of the University of Southampton, ranked in the Top 100 of Universities Worldwide (QS World University Rankings, 2020). SBS established the Careers, Employability, Placements, & Alumni Relations (CEPAR) team to support students in realising their career ambitions by:

• Offering a high-quality Student Placements service that positions SBS as a top destination for ambitious students
• Engaging with the business community and embedding Experiential Learning throughout the curriculum to enable students to work on live business challenges and learn through problem solving
• Developing SBS Alumni Relations and creating a mutually supportive community of former and current students

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SouthamptonBusinessSchool
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton-business-school/mycompany/
Twitter @SotonBusiness

Mews

Mews is an innovative hospitality management cloud that empowers the modern hotelier to improve performance, maximize revenue, and provide remarkable guest experiences.

A fully integrated ecosystem of six key products – Operations, Payments, Guest Journey, Business Intelligence, Marketplace and an Open API – harnesses the power of smart automation to make a real difference for properties and chains of all sizes.

With over 600 integrations and hospitality tech partners, Mews is the most connected solution on the market. It's also the easiest to use, with a clean, intuitive interface and outstanding support should you need it.

Tourism Network

Tourist Network are specialists in tourism video production, having produced thousands of videos for the industry. Our clients big and small include theme parks, heritage attractions, museums, hospitality providers, zoos, tourist events, and many more.

We’re also market leaders in Digital Signage installations in tourist information settings, and broadcast a number of destination-wide Tourist Information TV Channels that are piped exclusively into hotel bedrooms.

Hoseasons

With a history stretching back almost 80 years, Hoseasons has become a household and industry-leading name in UK holidays, offering more than 30,000 iconic places to stay, from luxury woodland lodges to family holiday parks, relaxing boating breaks and charming cottage holidays.

The UK travel industry is an ever-changing landscape, and Hoseasons prides itself on staying relevant – helping over 1.5 million holidaymakers find great value breaks and building long term and profitable business partnerships with holiday accommodation owners across the UK. Happy holiday experiences are at the heart of everything we do.

Sunflower Social Media / Social Media Management and Solutions

Sunflower Social Media is delighted to support this year's South West Tourism Excellence Awards.  Located in the South West, Sunflower Social Media supports a wide range of businesses, helping them to maximise the return from their social media.  

Making time for social media can be hard.  Only you can run your business the way you know how and so we create and implement social media strategies for you, sourcing content and dealing with all your engagement and community growth, leaving you to do what you do the best. 

Beyonk

Beyonk provides user-friendly and versatile online booking systems to experience providers and attractions, and we work with a range of partners - mostly DMOs - to enable direct booking of experiences on their own websites.

We work closely with both our partners and businesses to help everyone get the very best out of their online sales on an ongoing basis, feeding back latest best practice and frequently reviewing business’s online sales presence. We work with multiple DMOs, associations and industry bodies who trust us to act in the best interests of all the businesses we work with. 

Touch Stay

Touch Stay makes your guests happier!

Our digital guest books replace and revolutionise the printed guides and leaflets of the past. It’s time to put those wasted years managing Word docs, PDFs, binders, and clunky website templates behind you. Our digital guidebooks enable you to answer all your guests’ questions in a format that’s convenient and easy to use.

It works by storing your content in a single online location. Then we package the content into an easy-to-use format that guests love. It looks beautiful on any device or computer, works offline, and can even be saved to a PDF and printed.

If you’re wondering what the ROI is, it’s simple: better reviews lead to more bookings, and fewer questions mean more time to run your business. It’s a win-win.

Quality in Tourism

Quality in Tourism has been relaunched as an independent accreditation service, offering grading, mystery shopping and specialist tourism and hospitality expertise.

Our experienced team have worked in various tourism and hospitality roles, giving them a true empathy and understanding of the issues within the industry. From mystery customer visits and website reviews to RevPARr and marketing analysis, we work with our members to offer practical help and assistance, with the aim of driving additional sales and increasing profit.

Our assessor team can star rate your property without the prescriptive standards of other schemes, recognising your quality and its appeal to customers, without insisting on outdated physical measures irrelevant to your customers. Our entry level scheme gives assurances to your customers, it is appropriately named Safe Clean & Legal TM. We offer special accolades to help you promote your properties to customers looking for your particular offerings.

Our experience, expertise and insight into the industry allows us to respond to current trends and assist members to deliver what the customer actually wants.

NFU Mutual New Forest, Isle of Wight and Bournemouth Agency

It’s our mutuality which sets us apart. NFU Mutual is owned by and run for over 900,000 customers, and we work hard to protect your interests. From 300 local offices offering personal service to our tailored quotes you can’t get on price comparison sites, your needs are at the heart of everything we do.

Gaining accolades is one way of being recognised for the high standards of customer service and cover which we provide. We take pride in the fact that many of our general insurance products have received recognition from third parties, demonstrating our commitment to providing a comprehensive level of cover.

But we’re not standing still. Supporting our communities is very important to us. We’re committed to helping protect the environment, championing rural communities through events and initiatives, and continuing to offer the best care possible.