Cumbria Tourism Website Scoops National Award

We are proud to announce that our visitor website Golakes recently won a prestigious Travolution Award for the design of its website. Read the full story..

Cumbria Tourism Awards 2011 winners

The winners of the prestigious 2011 Cumbria Tourism Awards were revealed at a glittering ceremony in Kendal on Thursday 7th July 2011. See full list of winners.

3,000 Members

Cumbria Tourism has 3,000 business members and represents a strong industry voice to enable collaboration and coordination across a large geographical area.

Golakes website boasts 4.3 million users

Cumbria Tourism manages the award winning ‘golakes' website which attracts over 4.3 million users per year with cost effective advertising for accommodation and non accommodation businesses. See our on-line opportunities.

100 journalists hosted a year

Each year Cumbria Tourism's PR team host over 100 key journalists throughout the county, generate more than £2.5 million in equivalent advertising for the area deal with over 2,500 requests for information from journalists - the equivalent of around 50 enquiries per week. Read our current press releases.

320 businesses inspected with Quality Cumbria

Quality Cumbria are a local assessment scheme enables businesses to promote themselves in Tourist Information Centre's and visitor websites.

Promote The Lake District brand

Cumbria Tourism promotes The Lake District Cumbria brand nationally and internationally and delivers visitors to under developed parts of Cumbria such as Carlisle & Hadrian's Wall and West Cumbria.

Deliver an accommodation grant scheme

Cumbria Tourism delivers an accommodation grant scheme which for every £1 of public money invested levers an additional £6 from the private sector. Find out more about Tourism Connect.

Adventure Capital

Cumbria Tourism identifies new markets and is leading the development of Adventure Tourism in Cumbria.

Best Practice

Cumbria Tourism is regarded as a model of best practice in tourism development and marketing and rewarded by strong partnership support from the private and public sector.

Golakes.co.uk our official visitor website continues to go from strength to strength and with over 4.3 million users a year it's an advertising opportunity not to be missed. Sign up today..

Tourism Connect Programme

View the projects that have been supported by the Rural NW Tourism Connect programme.

Join Membership of Cumbria Tourism

We invite anyone who has a tourism business or is interested in tourism to become a member. You will have access to an extensive range of services, support and benefits to promote and develop your business.

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Golakes.co.uk

If you are planning a visit to Cumbria or are a Cumbrian looking for attractions or events throughout the county, take a look at Golakes for all your visitor needs.

Welcome to Cumbria Tourism's Corporate Website

Cumbria Tourism aspires to be excellent in all aspects of our Tourist Board and Destination Management remit. Achieving, maintaining and improving on our 'excellence ambition' is not an easy task but one which all staff at CT are totally committed to and determined to progress. The private sector and public sector partnership that is CT goes from strength to strength, we now have membership which represents over 3,000 visitor dependent businesses, in turn these businesses represent over 20,000 people, therefore reaching most people employed in some aspect or other of tourism in Cumbria.

Also in partnership on our Executive Board are valued representatives from the Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership, Cumbria County Council, the Lake District National Park Authority and the District Councils. Our working groups have input by private and public sector representatives and cover Policy and Development and Commercial Services, both report into the Executive Board.

Our shared Tourism Strategy for Cumbria has a clear vision - to become Europe's Number One rural tourism destination. Again, no shortage of ambition here. We won't achieve such ambition without the input of the commercial sector and we recognise the need to improve considerably on many fronts. Please keep involved and please keep helping us become a truly world class visitor destination.