VisitSussex News

www.visitsussex.org  

The official Sussex Tourism web site continues to go from strength to strength. Supported by the trade, and be every local authority in Sussex, it has attracted 50% more visitors  in the 12 months to November 2009 than in the previous 12 months. Total visitors to the site are rapidly approaching 400,000 per Year.

Although every tourism business has a free entry on the site (subject to certain conditions) this relies on customers searching for you in your specific category. Now you can make your tourism establishment or facility more visible by taking advantage of our Promotional opportunities which are available at very reasonable rates. 

Click here for details

Polling now live on www.visitsussex.org

www.visitsussex.org is one of the first destination web sites in Britain to have introduced Polling. 

This means that if you are a visitor accommodation establishment which has signed up for on-line booking with your local destination or with one of VisitBritain’s commercial partners (e.g. Late Rooms; Superbreak) ,  your availability will be shown in real time in response to a customer search  and the customer will be given a choice of which booking agent to chose. It is then a simple and secure process for the customer to make the booking on the chosen agent's web site. Booking transactions take place locally and not directly on visitsussex.

To take advantage of this opportunity contact your Local Authority destination or Tourism manager, who will be able to explain how to get inviolved and sign you up Free of charge.*

* please note that bookings are commissionable.

Free product listings for Sussex Tourism Businesses

From 1^st April 2009 all tourism businesses in Sussex which are either:

1.  advertised through their local destination brochure or web site, or

2.  Members of  Tourism South-east

will receive a free full product listing on www.visitsussex.org.

Additionally, tourism accommodation businesses which are neither of the above, but which are accredited under NQAS and have a valid and current grading from VisitBritain or the AA will receive a free line entry.

This means that www.visitsussex.org can begin to realise its true potential as a comprehensive portal web site for Sussex; in support of the industry and of our local visitor destinations. There are currently over 4,000 Sussex tourism products listed on the site.

3 ways to highlight and promote your tourism business

There is now the opportunity to make your business highly visible to over 30,000 web site visitors each month via Banner Advertising; Sponsorship or Product Features. Please click here for full details If you would like to take advantage of any of these please contact

Richard@visitsussex.org.  

Help to shape the future of this web site

www.visitsussex.org is managed by the VisitSussex Working Group of the Sussex Tourism Partnership. If you would like to help develop tourism in Sussex and have some expertise in tourism business or IT you might like to join the group. Meetings take place every 6 weeks and last for 2-3 hours. Please contact Richard@visitsussex.org