Who we are....
Working together for Essex
Tourism is a key economic driver for the Essex economy. Visit Essex’s core aim is to raise the value of tourism to Essex by promoting day trips and short breaks, and ensuring we have a compelling visitor offer that generates income for the county. We do this by being the shop window for Essex tourism businesses, maintaining a high profile for the county through our digital presence, collaborating with travel intermediaries and encouraging collaboration generally between tourism stakeholders, challenging outdated perceptions and being an advocate for high quality products and services with a warm visitor welcome.
The Visit Essex board consists of a team of tourism professionals with a variety of industry experience who work closely with us and together for the greater good of tourism in Essex. Visit Essex is a membership organisation with a range of levels of engagement, so contact us to find out how you can become involved. We can help you up-skill at one of our regular training workshops, meet other tourism businesses at our popular networking events, or have access to market intelligence and industry updates at our annual tourism conference. For more information about membership and how to work with us, please contact Andrew Poulton, Partnership Manager Email: Andrew Poulton Telephone: +44 (0) 33301 30106
The 2017 Visit Essex Annual Conference took place on 21 March at Hedingham Castle with a focus on 'How to grow your business through food, film and funding.
Visit Essex commission annually market intelligence to help the you keep up-to-date with the latest research carried out.
The Annual Summer Networking Event took place at Stow Maries on Wednesday 22 June. The presentation from the event can be found here.
European Funding - PROFIT
Visit Essex is now working on the INTERREG 2 SEAS PROFIT project which aims to grow the economy of our coastal destinations by creating conditions that enable and stimulate cross-border SMEs to be innovative. This support will lead to the development of new products, service and technology solutions that meet the need of visitors, making the region more competitive and the businesses more profitable.
The partners working with Visit Essex include Westtoer (Belgium), Visit Kent (UK), Pas de Calais Tourisme (France), International Social Tourism Organisation (Belgium), Chamber of Commerce Opal Coast (France), HZ University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) and Impuls Zeeland (Netherlands).
Interreg is a European funding initiative founded in 1989 with the aim of supporting cross-border, transnational and inter-regional co-operation between different European Member States. The Interreg programmes have been and will continue to be a key vehicle for local authorities and organisations to work with EU partners on projects of common interest.
Explore our county
Explore our 350 miles of coastline, the longest shoreline of any county in England, a place of surprising wild beauty, rich in wildlife and sprinkled with history and hidden cultural gems.
