Sponsors & Partners

It’s our mutuality which sets us apart. NFU Mutual is owned by and run for over 880,000 customers, and we work hard to protect your interests. From 280 local agency offices, we offer a personal, local service and you won’t find us on price comparison websites. 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, champion rural communities through events and initiatives and continuing to offer the best care we can.

Working with hospitality, tourism and leisure businesses, QiT provides the expertise and advice needed to quantify and improve business performance. From mystery shopping to quality assessment, sustainability reviews and market advice, our industry experts are available to share advice and guidance, benchmark businesses, and identify opportunities for improvement. We pride ourselves on looking at a business from the outside-in, looking at it from a customer perspective, from a community perspective, from an employee perspective and from a competitive perspective.

Helping businesses become the best they can be. We are not inspectors, we are not auditors, we are your businesses support team and your cheerleaders rolled into one.

Touch Stay transforms your traditional house manual or welcome binder into a sleek, digital format that’s simple to use and effortlessly customisable. Add your own logo and colours, and include as much content as you need – whether it’s text, photos, videos, or links. With features like AI assistant to populate the guides in no time, AI chatbot to quickly answer guest questions, and the upsell widget to offer more and earn additional income, Touch Stay takes your guest experience to the next level.

Share your digital guidebook seamlessly with your guests through your pre-arrival emails, allowing them to access all the essential information directly from their device.

With over 30 years serving the UK and Irelands hospitality sector, Bunzl Rafferty Guest Amenities provides premium products that enhance every guest experience. Whether you are a hotel or a holiday park, we can supply bedding, bedroom accessories/capital items, textiles, furniture, consumables, and guest amenities, featuring leading brands like Rituals, Bvlgari, and Paul Costelloe. Our eco-friendly innovations—from carton-packaged water to reusable bottles—reflect our commitment to sustainability. Through personalisation, we help properties express their brand across every detail, from umbrellas to welcome mats.

More than a supplier, Bunzl Rafferty is a trusted partner driving sustainability, efficiency, and excellence in hospitality.

Tozers are the award-winning leading lawyers when it comes to park law. As legal advisers to the British Holiday and Home Parks Association for over 65 years, we are at the cutting edge of legal developments affecting the parks industry. Our dedicated and experienced team advise parks businesses small and large, throughout England and Wales, on a wide range of issues.

We offer a comprehensive legal service for both our commercial and private clients, always staying one step ahead and seeking new perspectives, which is why we are one of the top-rated law firms.

We put our clients first. We’re Tozers, thoughtful legal partners for a changing world.

At Colour Blue Productions, we help businesses tell their story through film and photography that actually drives results. We create content that builds trust, showcases your brand, and makes you stand out—whether it’s a website film, social media content, or a full-scale campaign. We’ve worked with everything from ambitious local businesses to larger brands, blending creative storytelling with marketing strategy to deliver content that gets noticed and grows your bottom line.

Our focus is on making your brand impossible to ignore, while helping you see real returns on your investment.

With 43 million annual passengers, London Gatwick is the UK’s second largest and one of Europe’s top ten airports. It is a vital piece of national infrastructure that drives both the national and regional economies, generating £5.5 billion GVA and supporting over 76,000 jobs. London Gatwick is the most efficient single runway airport in the world, with almost 60 airlines flying to over 200 destinations. 

A six-year, £2 billion sustainable growth programme includes an ambitious plan to be a net zero airport by 2030 and to increase capacity by bringing the airport’s existing Northern Runway into routine use.

Agilysys helps properties optimise Return on Experience for guests and staff so they can achieve High Return Hospitality. Agilysys is the only hospitality software provider that synthesises data and workflows to elevate guest experiences and increase wallet share across a singular platform.

Knowing more about guests’ preferences provides personal, efficient service, leading to greater job satisfaction and retention. Guests who feel known do more, spend more and recommend more as champions of your property.

The Agilysys Hospitality Cloud™ combines core operational systems for property management, point-of-sale, and inventory and procurement with Experience Enhancers™ for mobile convenience and extensive digital interactions.

Sunflower Social Media is delighted to support this year’s Beautiful South Tourism Awards.  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.

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 10 flexible event spaces.

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At Booking.com, we combine 20+ years of industry experience with continuous data-backed insights to provide you with the services, products and support you need to grow your business. That’s why we offer the tools, visibility and round-the-clock support you might not get on your own.

We’re proud to be the world’s number one accommodation site for bookings. More than 1.5 million room nights are booked on Booking.com every single day. With such a large customer base, we can help you reach a vast audience of potential guests, from every corner of the globe – meaning you have access to entire new markets, all in one place

Outdooractive is the leading digital platform for outdoor activities, connecting 60 million active consumers with official-verified routes and destination content. Designed for tourism destinations and visitor-related businesses, it offers a powerful full-service solution for digital route management, visitor data insights, and sustainable destination marketing.

With advanced mapping tools and a global reach, Outdooractive helps LVEPs, DMOs, tourism boards, local authorities, accommodation providers, and outdoor brands drive engagement, enhance visitor experiences, and promote responsible tourism through a single integrated platform.