Experience

Cumbria Tourism 

The visitor destination management organisation for Cumbria, with a 3,000 strong membership, representing a £3bn industry. I deliver their essential research activity including:

• Monthly occupancy surveys with over 300 businesses
• Research with visitor attractions 
• Annual tourism volume and value assessment
• Business performance surveys
• Countywide visitor surveys

• Adventure Capital
• Allerdale Borough Council
• Amec Foster Wheeler (NuGen)
• Association of Show and Agricultural Organisations (ASAO)
• BAE Systems
• Brand Events
• Brewery Arts Centre
• Callander Landscape Partnership
• Calon Cymru Fostering
• Carlisle City Council
• Carlisle, Eden & West Cumbria Carers
• Coniston Coppermines
• CN Group
• Cumbria Community Foundation
• Cumbria’s Brand Management Group
• Eden District Council
• Encounter Eden
• Forth Rivers Trust
• GoLakes Travel
• Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds University
• Lake District Estates
• Lake District National Park Authority
• Lakes Culture
• Lake District Foundation
• Lancaster City Council
• Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority
• Leeds City Council
• Morecambe Bay Partnership
• Nenthead Community Group
• Nexus Fostering
• Out of Eden
• Prince’s Countryside Fund
• Scottish Heritage
• South Lakeland District Council
• South Lakeland Parks
• The Predator Experience
• The University of Cumbria
• Urquhart Castle
• Wetheral Parish

I conduct visitor surveys and economic impact evaluations for various events to profile event audiences, assess satisfaction and areas for improvement, and collect data to assess their impact on the local economy, and return on investment including for:

• Light Night Leeds
• Leeds Armed Forces Day 
• Light up Lancaster 
• Poynton Show 
• The Royal Cheshire Show 
• Carlisle City of Lights 
• Lakes International Comic Art Festival 
• Kendal Mountain Festival 
• Taste Cumbria Food Festival (including some of the Taste Christmas events)
• Keswick Mountain Festival 
• Penrith Show 
• Workington Winter Festival 
• Kendal Food Festival 
• Ulverston Dickensian Festival
• Lakesman Triathlon 
• Northbound Street Party 
• Kendal Torchlight 
• Ambleside Festival of the Fells 
• Allerdale in Manchester 
• Bowness Markets