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Tourism Marketing Strategy
Bold Vision, Bright Future
Our Goal & the Challenge
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Delivering a World Class Experience
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Our Measures

The strategy intends to make a real difference to tourism generated revenue and its success will be measured against the following targets:

  • Achieve 5% growth per annum of the value of visitor revenue


  • Increase the value of domestic staying visitor tourism to £2,493million by 2010


  • Increase staying business tourism from 23% to 27% of the overall value of staying visitor revenue


  • Increase international tourism from 13% to 20% of the overall value of staying visitor revenue


  • Increase visitor satisfaction by 1% per annum to 2010


  • Improve upon Yorkshire's current position as 3rd place amongst English regional brands in terms of awareness and consideration to visit by our key target market segments
An Exciting Time Ahead

Yorkshire is a vibrant, thriving region with a wonderful mix of people, places and attractions.

This marketing strategy signals the start of an exciting time for our region. It's a blueprint for Yorkshire's future that, through partnership, will increase the quality of the visitor experience leading to new opportunities, and greater tourism-generated income.

Moreover, it maps the journey by which Yorkshire will become England's number one, regional destination.

Further information
A longer summary document of this strategy, which includes details of the in-depth market research commissioned by the Yorkshire Tourist Board, is available for download.

PDF file - Download the longer summary of the Tourism Marketing Strategy 2006-2010 - 1.88MB Click here to download the longer summary
(PDF document - 1.88MB - Estimated download time 4.5 minutes with a 56k Dial-up connection. Less than a minute with a broadband internet connection).
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For further information, please contact Julie Kelly.
Email: jkelly@ytb.org.uk
Tel: 01904 773321

Other useful downloads

PDF file - Download the Strategic Framework for the Visitor Economy - 1.34MB Download the Strategic Framework for the Visitor Economy (PDF document - 1.34MB - Estimated download time 3.5 minutes with a 56k Dial-up connection. Less than a minute with a broadband internet connection).

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