The Beautiful South Tourism Awards programme offers sponsors and partners a range of year-round benefits, including web links, media coverage, industry profile, communications with business, networking and business development opportunities with Services for Tourism Ltd. Benefits start when we launch each spring, continuing for 12 months until the following spring.
There are a range of options ranging from £500 to £5000. Information on opportunities is available HERE, for more information please contact Robin Barker, Services for Tourism Ltd, at rbarker@services4tourism.co.uk or 07870 397438.
Sponsors & Partners to date are:
Title Sponsors
All Sponsors & Partners
The Grand Brighton - Beautiful South Tourism Awards Event Partner
www.grandbrighton.co.ukThe 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.
Twitter: @grandbrighton
Instagram: @thegrandbrighton
Facebook: @thegrandhotelbrighton
Visit Brighton
www.visitbrighton.comVisitBrighton 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.
Tozers
www.tozers.co.ukTozers 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.
Anytime Booking
www.anytimebooking.co.uk.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.
Mews
www.mews.comMews 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.
Sunflower Social Media / Social Media Management and Solutions
www.sunflowersocialmedia.co.ukSunflower 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.
Touch Stay
touchstay.comTouch 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.
Visit Kent
www.visitkent.co.ukVisit Kent Ltd is the Destination Management Organisation for Kent (the Garden of England).
It is recognised as one of the country’s leading DMOs, targeting UK and overseas markets to raise Kent’s profile as a premier destination, improving quality and skills within the industry, and growing investment in tourism. Visit Kent is a public/private sector partnership supported by Kent County Council, Medway Council, district and borough councils, and the leading sector tourism businesses in Kent.
For further information visit visitkent.co.uk (consumer) or visitkentbusiness.co.uk (business), or tweet @visitkent.
Booking.com
www.booking.comAt 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
City Cruises
www.citycruises.comCity Cruises began life as a family-owned business operating sightseeing cruises on the River Thames. In 2014 and 2016, Blue Line Cruises in Dorset and York Boat joined the fleet, and the company became a family of three – City Cruises London, City Cruises Poole and City Cruises York.
At the end of 2019, just before the global pandemic hit, City Cruises was acquired by the US cruise operator, Hornblower Cruises & Events. And today, City Cruises is proud to be part of a global brand of companies, including Walks, Devour, Venture Ashore and Journey Beyond.
Stopham Vineyard
www.stophamvineyard.co.ukStopham Vineyard is an award winning 6 hectare estate located in the beautiful South Downs National Park near Pulborough in West Sussex.
We are specialists in crafting aromatic still white wines from Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Bacchus and classic method sparkling wine from the champagne varietals, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
Our vineyard was planted in 2007 by our head winemaker, Simon Woodhead who found the perfect site at Stopham for the varietals that we grow. Our 21,000 vines sit on south facing slopes in free draining sandy soil at a low altitude maximising exposure of our grapes to heat and sunshine.
We pride ourselves on our sustainable approach to winemaking and grape growing and we consistently win industry awards for our high quality wine. We are open for tours every Saturday from April - October.
Instagram, Twitter & Facebook - @StophamVineyard
Made for Life Organics
www.madeforlifeorganics.com/Made for Life Organics celebrates its 20th Anniversary as an artisan, luxurious 100% Organic range of award-winning skincare, hand blended and supported by an exceptional training and education programme. Made for Life Organics has led the way and innovated from its inception, creating authentic organic skincare and educating spas and therapists to welcome all people, including those living with cancer.
Made for Life was the first skincare range to receive 100% organic accreditation and the first UK Spa brand to receive B Corp certification. All products are certified Beauty without Cruelty and are used in leading hotels and spas across the UK.
Quality in Tourism
www.qualityintourism.comQuality 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
www.nfumutual.co.uk/agent-offices/new-forest/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.