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The Bowes Museum’s massive Canalettos has gone on show in a prestigious international touring exhibition that connects Durham and Japan.

13 Aug 2024

Regatta on the Grand Canal, Venice will return to the Museum in summer 2025. One of The Bowes Museum’s most loved and best-known paintings has gone on view in a […]

Visit County Durham

Latest group of Welcome to Durham ambassadors created

8 Aug 2024

Visit County Durham has recently created its latest group of Durham Ambassadors after they completed the popular Welcome to Durham qualification. During the one-day course, which took place in June […]

Industry

Durham Fringe Festival sees record visitor numbers over five days

6 Aug 2024

Durham Fringe Festival 2024, with its distinctive stretch-tent marquee and mobile box office on Palace Green, has drawn to a close with record visitor numbers and record ticket sales. More […]

Industry

Brits struggling to afford price of foreign holidays turn to UK getaways

5 Aug 2024

Two-thirds of Brits (66%) are struggling to afford the price of a foreign holiday this year and are instead turning to UK getaways this summer, according to new research revealed […]

Industry

Wave of success for Seaham Food Festival

5 Aug 2024

Thousands took a trip to the seaside to enjoy some fun, sun, and the return of one of the region’s biggest food festivals. People flocked to Seaham Food Festival this […]

Industry

Public Art Installation unveiled at Auckland Tower

1 Aug 2024

A major outdoor art installation, inspired by England’s oldest stained-glass windows, has been unveiled on the exterior of Auckland Tower in Bishop Auckland. Following a nationwide and rigorous selection process, […]

Visit County Durham

New media centre

31 Jul 2024

Visit County Durham's new online media centre is now live. Inside the media centre you'll find key photography and videography featuring the county's many amazing attractions, accommodation, food and drink […]

Industry

Tourism awards

31 Jul 2024

If you run a tourism, hospitality or leisure business - make sure you're in the running for the Destination North East England Tourism Awards! These prestigious awards celebrate everything from […]

Industry

Disability confident

31 Jul 2024

A new Disability Confident guide has been published by the Department for Work and Pensions, to help business managers recruit, retain and foster the progression of disabled people in the […]

Industry

North East England leads the way with Interactive 3D virtual tours &inclusivity training

29 Jul 2024

Visitors heading to some of the region’s top tourist spots can now feel safe, welcomed and included before they even arrive thanks to groundbreaking, interactive 3D photography and pioneering inclusivity […]

Visit County Durham

Visit County Durham welcome familiarisation trip

29 Jul 2024

Earlier this month Visit County Durham partnered with Group Leisure and Travel Magazine on a familiarisation visit to the county. The group was made up of 12 group travel organisers […]

Industry

Peace Doves artwork arrives in Durham Cathedral

26 Jul 2024

Visitors to Durham Cathedral this summer can experience a brand new immersive artwork as a canopy of paper doves is suspended in the cathedral's Nave. Peace Doves, a mass-participation artwork […]

Industry

Attractions survey results

24 Jul 2024

VisitEngland has published its 2023 Annual Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions showing that while visits to attractions across England continued to recover last year, they were still significantly down […]

Industry

How's business

24 Jul 2024

Please spare 10 minutes of your time to complete our latest How's Business survey. The results are important for us to see what is hapenning across the visitor economy and […]

Industry

Detailed access guides

24 Jul 2024

Today's travellers want detailed and factual descriptions of venue accessibility, in the form of an Accessibility Guide, to empower them to make personal choices. To support this, VisitEngland is providing […]