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Tourism operators in North Wales and North West England can take plenty of positives from the first major British holiday of the year.

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.

Reading is a large historic university town in the southern midlands of England which is usually buzzing with student types, shoppers and business people using cars and public transport to get around. Unfortunately, the city, despite its large size and population, doesn't have a tour bus!

Last week, Jenny and I were lucky enough to be invited to the official launch of the all new Liverpool Football Club Stadium Tour.

Mixed messages are reaching members of the local tourism and hospitality industries...

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.

Romantic cottages for holidays or weekend escapes.

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…

You will probably notice a few changes around here since your last visit, not least to our title, which has become Swift Flyer.

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...

Wayne Lowe interviews Paula Bardell-Hedley about the future plans of LDS Tourism Services Ltd.

New leaflets and brochures continue to arrive at the Border Distribution Centre every day, including many from brand new clients such as The Trentham Estate in Staffordshire - which is currently undergoing a £100 million regeneration project aimed at creating a unique visitor destination of national importance.

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.

Chester Railway Stations's Visitor Information Point has finally opened to the public...

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.

LDS Tourism Services has had a web presence since 1995 and has fully embraced e-marketing and, more recently, social media networking techniques.

As ever at this time of year, we are hectically busy preparing for the schools to close - in fact, some have already broken up for the summer.

At LDS Tourism Services we have a name for unauthorised leaflets that appear in our display units from time to time.

As Britain basks in glorious sunshine, there is every indication that camping and caravanning holidays are enjoying an enormous resurgence.

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.