Explaining your church to visitors is one of the biggest challenges for any parish but it also offers a wonderful opportunity to introduce a new audience to the Gospel, to Christian history and to the Church. This event will help you to improve the experience of visitors to your church – be they local residents, […]
The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) [Alliance member] has announced its members’ visitor figures for 2014 showing an average increase of 6.5% on 2013 visitor numbers. The British Museum remained the most popular visitor attraction overall for the 8th year running with 6,695,213 visitors. In 2nd place was the National Gallery, which saw a 6.4% increase to […]
The Tourism Alliance has launched its Manifesto outlining a number of detailed asks so that the tourism industry can continue to deliver high levels of growth and employment for the UK. The Manifesto, The Tourism Briefing 2015, argues that even though tourism has been at the forefront of the UK’s economic recovery and is the fifth […]
VisitBritain and VisitEngland are to be charged with getting more overseas visitors to travel beyond London to maintain the UK’s tourism boom, the first Triennial Review of the two public-bodies has recommended. Triennial Reviews are a way of reviewing the necessity of non-departmental public bodies, as well as reviewing their functions, performance, control and governance arrangements. The […]
Here is the CVTA March 2015 Newsletter which includes a report back from the CVTA Southern Symposium. CVTA NEWSLETTER – MARCH 2015.pdf
Read the CVTA November 2014 newsletter which includes a report back from the CVTA Northern Symposium. CVTA NEWSLETTER – NOVEMBER 2014
The Church of England has teamed up with cycling charity Sustrans to produce a series of tours linking the country’s Cathedrals and historic church buildings by bike. The Towers and Spires series are been created to provide a new way to explore the country’s magnificent church buildings. The materials have been published by ChurchCare which supports those […]
How do you reconcile the spiritual role of a place of worship with the fact that many visitors will also or only be interested in the architecture or the history of the building? And what can you provide for those visitors who have no idea of the spiritual function of the building and how it […]
We’re open all hours – what’s your excuse? Bob Calver PCC Secretary Is your church open? If not why not? I ask these questions based on the experience of my village church, St. Peter’s Pipe cum Lyde just north of the city of Hereford. For many years it was kept locked except for the hour […]
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