Guide to Dartmoor
Visit Dartmoor’s Official Guide to Dartmoor is winging its way all over the world after being produced, designed and published in Okehampton.
As part of its strategy to promote, support and market the Visit Dartmoor member businesses, each year a Visit Dartmoor destination guide is published which is distributed to Tourist Information Centres all over the UK. The role of this guide is to promote Dartmoor as a short break destination, and to encourage visitors to stay longer!
This year it is packed with ideas for activities like cycling, walking, riding, dog-walking, fishing, kayaking and climbing. Visitors are encouraged to explore the history, myths and legends of Dartmoor, and to visit its wonderful galleries, attractions, craft shops, sculpture school and the new Artisan Trail. Of course it is full of superb accommodation and wonderful places to eat!
Jenny How of Visit Dartmoor said: ‘As always it will still be distributed all over the country, but we will be focusing more on the South West, particularly Cornwall to Dorset - and the brochures will also be available in motorway service stations to pick up those last minute bookings for our members. People from all over the world request their copies of the Guide by post, we’re always amazed at the number of countries we get orders from.’
The Guide is also available as a download or to be read online by the 56,000 website visitors who use the site every month.
Jenny said: ‘The Guide is free, sustained purely by advertising revenue as we do not receive any external funding. We also support local, non-tourism businesses with our business services section on the website. We have photographers, film makers, marketing consultants, local producers and local business support agencies signing up to this new initiative.
As the official tourism organisation for Dartmoor, Visit Dartmoor supports and promote member businesses in the tourism Industry on and around Dartmoor with an extremely powerful and high performing website, a huge social media following, and free training courses, workshops and business showcase days. And as tourism delivery Ppartner to Dartmoor National Park Authority, it promotes Dartmoor as a world class destination, regularly hosting press trips for national and international journalists and travel writers and by attending tourism and travel shows with the annual Dartmoor Guide, themed itineraries and other promotional material.
If anyone would like to know more about becoming a Visit Dartmoor member, or a business services partner, please email jenny@visitdartmoor.co.uk