VisitEngland's annual Visitor Attraction Survey has revealed that England's tourist attractions rose by 2% in 2008 - with the most significant rise around Liverpool, the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
As usual, Team LDSTS is bustling about the countryside, distributing the latest leaflets and brochures to venues across the region. New promotional publications arrive every day from all corners of our service area, and we are frantically delivering the latest issue of What's On in Chester & Cheshire over the Bank Holiday weekend.
Where has January gone? Soon it will be 'silly season' (the frenzied run up to Easter) for LDS Tourism Services and we will be dashing from one TIP to another, distributing all the last minute brochures and leaflets.
No sooner had we celebrated our first white Christmas for many years and seen in 2010 with a dusting of more fluffy stuff, than winter struck the region with a frightful vengeance. Severe weather warnings were issued by the Met Office and it started to snow, and snow, and snow…
We can finally reveal that our long awaited "brand new service" has been launched for the autumn/winter of 2009/10: LDS Tourism is now offering to build effective social media marketing campaigns for existing clients and other businesses.
Although small firms employ over fifty-eight per cent of the private sector workforce and contribute more than 50% of the UK turnover, the expansion of large national and international companies into every corner of British industry is heavily responsible for the demise of local trade.
LDS Tourism Services are extremely excited about 2010 - not least because they are now working with several new partner companies in other parts of the UK.
As long-standing members of the Chester Partnership (not to mention sole distributors for the group), we received an invitation to attend the official opening of the Visitor Information Centre at Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet on 4th March.
The two-week Easter break was more hectic than even we had anticipated and our headquarters frequently resembled Churchill's war rooms at the height of WWII...
Better known for its romantically beautiful gardens and tranquil lake, 19th century Cholmondeley Castle will become the focus of military combat demonstrations, powerboat racing and motorbike scrambling displays on the weekend of 17th-18th July.