Free opportunities with Visit Kent

There are a number of ways tourism businesses of all sizes across Kent can work with Visit Kent.

FREE for all tourism business across the county:

  • Representation for your business on the Visit Kent website, www.visitkent.co.uk, which continuously tops the Google rankings for tourism-related searches and attracts over 2 million visitors a year
  • Free Business Advice – through our businesses advisors
  • Access to research and business support tools
  • Access to “RIBOS” –an online system which provides the national tourism agency Visit England with accommodation occupancy figures.  At Visit Kent we have direct access to all Kent data, and can tap into it instantly for feedback to our businesses (all data is held confidentially).  The advantage to you is that you can instantly access this data and benchmark your performance against similar businesses in the UK, creating charts and tables easily and instantly.

What we can offer your business for a small fee:

  • Advertising opportunities in the Visit Kent Magazine 2012, the only official destination guide for the whole of Kent, backed by a £2m advertising campaign, distributed in Kent, across the UK and near Europe, Take a look at the rate card enclosed for more details
  • An Enhanced entry on www.visitkent.co.uk showing your property images and text (enhanced entries appear higher in the rankings than basic listings)
  • Business support and advice from tourism professionals covering a wide range of expertise
  • Quality support - Over the phone, face to face advisory service and workshops covering the delivery of quality standards including the National Quality Assessment Scheme and the new Local Accommodation Assessment Scheme to be launched in 2012.
  • Out & Abouts - One day coach tours designed to discover some of the best-kept secrets in your local area.  Visit a host of interesting attractions while meeting others in the industry at the same time.
  • Welcome to Kent - Highly subsidised, one-day customer service training courses taking place locally or within your business (min 10 participants required). 
  • Welcome to Kent on-line – NEW highly interactive, on-line training tool for your staff in the form of a quiz game.   Welcome to Kent is designed to help users acquire new Kent product knowledge and brush up on the most important customer service skills.   

To find out more about working with Visit Kent contact enquiries@visitkent.co.uk