School Holiday dates

Need help setting your prices and don't know when the school holiday dates are? You'll find them here (please note PDF document - 19 pages).

For members who have Excel installed on their PC or MAC, please download here

Members Discussion Board

to access the Bulletin Board, please enter the password.
If you do not know the password, please email jon.richmond@nwt.co.uk

The Voice of Tourism

Join us for:

• A United Voice for Tourism Operators in North Wales
• Contacts, industry networking and information
• Free entry on one of the most comprehensive North Wales tourism websites
• Extensive promotion of North Wales as a tourist destination
• Marketing opportunities
• A great range of Membership Benefits

• Join North Wales Tourism, and you will be part of the largest tourism membership organisation in Wales. NWT is a member of the Wales Tourism Alliance which has direct access to the Welsh Assembly Government. We provide you with a unified voice for the industry—there’s strength in numbers.

The stronger the organisation, the stronger the voice

• Get involved by attending our AGM, Half Yearly and other trade meetings held across the region where you can listen to guest speakers from the industry. Recent speakers have included Digby Jones, Director-General of the CBI, Richard Brunstrom, Chief Constable of North Wales Police, and Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England.
• Get even more involved by standing for election to our Board of Directors. Our Board is made up of 12 elected Directors from the trade across North Wales.
• Networking opportunities with other members from all sectors of the industry.
• Display our membership plaque—recognised as ‘the’ logo for tourism in North Wales.
• Our regular communications in the form of email updates provide you with the latest news of what is happening in the industry, notification of events, plus email alerts about scams, cons and ‘problem visitors’.

Promoting your business

• Save 20% when advertising in the North Wales Tourism Great Breaks brochure—one of the most requested holiday guides in the region. The associated website www.great-breaks.co.uk also features special offers.
• FREE! - Details of your business included on our main website—www.nwt.co.uk which receives 5,000 visitors a week.
• Need marketing advice? We’re here to help. Talk to us about press, PR and leaflet production.
• FREE! - Include your business on our ROOMCHECK online booking system www.stayinnorthwales.com. You can also link your own website into the system to show your current availability.

Purchasing power = Discounts!

• Preferential credit and debit card rates through Streamline Merchant Services with no minimum monthly charge or setupfees, enabling you to take payments and deposits with no fuss. Rates start from as low as 1.13% subject to turnover and ticket value.
• Preferential Business Bank Account Tariff & Electronic Banking through HSBC.
• 10% discount off Windsor Crown Plan Insurance - specially developed for serviced accommodation operators to give the widest possible cover for the lowest cost.
• Discount off website design, hosting, domain registration and search engine submission through PJ WebWorks, Blue Sky Technologies or Live Solutions.
• Unbeatable savings on Irish Ferries car fares to Ireland.
• Members Guide to Suppliers - special terms and discounts from a range of suppliers including: Refrigeration Norwest (Llandudno), Beds & Pine Ltd., Curtain Magic, Julia Jones, Linney Cooper, Pine Direct Wales, Cooks & Caterers, Northern Pottery & Linen Co., Dyno-Rod (N. Wales), Chris Morris Electrical, The Power Service (North Wales), 3663 First for Foodservice, Dwyfor Coffee & Tea Supplies, Llechwedd Meats, Poynton’s Butchers, R Jacobsen & Son, Siwgr a Sbeis, Squire Catering Supplies, The Patchwork Traditional Food Co., Willow Foods, Fron Gôch Garden Centre, Gardencraft, Stapeley Water Gardens, Design 2 Print, Micrographics Colour Imaging, JRS Mechanical Services, SSC Rotalux, Ironing by Pressed Express, Star County Textile Services, Impact Communications (Wales) Ltd., Tents & Events, Gwynedd Pest Control, Nebs Standard Forms, Aston Hughes & Co., Business Eye, Gamlins Solicitors, North Wales Tourist Guiding Association, Glasfryn Hire/Green Loos, Tourism Training Forum for Wales, Welcome Host Wales, Slaters of Abergele, R&S Travel, Roger’s Taxi’s, Ability Support Services and Catalyst Systems.

..and some useful value-added extras

• FREE Bedroom Browsers to all accommodation operators. Our popular compilation of visitor attraction leaflets, spiral bound to keep them in a handy book format is distributed just before Easter.
• FREE Great Days Out leaflets -send these out with your enquiries and help convert the enquiry into a sale.
• FREE Attractions Pass giving you free entry into around 100 attractions throughout Wales. Improve your knowledge of the attractions sector - and then pass that knowledge on to your guests.
• Holiday Cancellation Insurance - protect your income by offering this option to your guests, and earn yourself 20% commission on premiums paid! Peace of mind all round.
• Competitively priced ‘Welcome Products’, soap and shampoo/bathfoam/shower gel designed exclusively for members with a bilingual ‘Croeso i Ogledd Cymru / Welcome to North Wales’ message.
• NEW - 10% discount off your membership fee when you recruit a new member of North Wales Tourism!

Please click here to go to the Membership Form

Please click here to go to
Membership Benefits

What our members say about us: 

“ North Wales Tourism is the most effective voice when lobbying for support for tourism in the region. It also provides invaluable support to individual members, regardless of the size of their business, by circulating up-to-date information on a variety of topics affecting the industry.”

Pat Green – Glyntwrog House, Betws-y-Coed

“ As a new entrant to the tourist industry in North Wales I have found NWT to provide an invaluable resource and support structure . The meetings organised by NWT have given me the opportunity to gain information from speakers and to network with people who have got experience and can provide useful contacts and advice . The staff in the NWT office are always very helpful and have actively promoted my business on my behalf. I would still be ‘fumbling in the dark' without NWT. ”

Ashanthi Holmes—Caledfryn, Llanberis

What you can SAVE!

Hotel with ten bedrooms
pays a membership fee of £100, but would typically save:

£250 on card processing charges
£120 off insurance policy
£100 off food from 3663
£50 off laundry services through Star County
£20 off website design
£85 off entrance fees to visitor attractions
£50 commission on Cancellation Insurance premiums

A total saving of £675!!

Guest House with three bedrooms pays a membership fee of £60, but would typically save:

£100 on card processing charges
£50 off insurance policy
£30 off furniture through Pine Direct
£20 off website design
£45 off entrance fees to visitor attractions
£20 commission on cancellation insurance premiums
£35 discount off purchases from Northern Pottery

A total saving of £300!!

Attraction with 45,000 visitors p.a. pays a membership fee (including full, unlimited leaflet distribution to TICs) of £578, but would typically save:

£250 on card processing charges
£126 on advertising in the Bedroom Browser
£50 off coffee supplies
£100 off food from 3663
£50 off portable toilet hire
£20 off website design
£85 off entrance fees to other visitor attractions

A total saving of £681 plus your leaflets in every TIC in North Wales!!

Small Tourism Business with no leaflet distribution pays a membership fee of £80, but would typically save:

£100 on card processing charges
£50 on marketing advice
£30 off equipment through Catalyst
£20 off website design
£45 off entrance fees to visitor attractions

A total saving of £245!!

North Wales Tourism, 77 Conway Road, COLWYN BAY, LL29 7LN

Jon Richmond
Tel: 01492 539068
jon.richmond@nwt.co.uk

Deborah Nettleton
Tel: 01492 539067
deborah.nettleton@nwt.co.uk