Business Resource Library

Welcome to our Business Resource Library, a repository of articles, information, tool kits and more that we’ve curated to help with the diverse needs of tourism businesses in the Tamar Valley. Whether you’re seeking actionable strategies for growth, insights into industry trends, or practical resources to optimize your operations, we’ve got you covered. We’ll be adding more and more material to the library over time so please bookmark the page and feel free to visit regularly.

A Year in Brief 2023-2024

Visit Tamar Valley works in partnership with the Tamar Valley National Landscape to deliver The Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme’s (TLP) Come Visit Stay Awhile project. TLP is a 5-year project with 10 key focuses and its aim is to enhance the Tamar Valley for both residents and visitors alike.

Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Funding, funds have been allocated to:

– Further developing a fully resourced-destination website

– Proactively marketing the Tamar Valley as a place to visit

– Promoting hospitality and tourism businesses in the area

– Creating opportunities for local people to become involved in the industry

– Upskilling local businesses through workshops and training

– Creating a dedicated B2B support hub for local business owners

– And generating a tangible positive impact on the local economy as a whole

Visit Tamar Valley is now in the very early stages of delivering its second full project year. We’ve created this graphic to summarise year one and provide some insight into how funding has been spent. With our second year underway the focus will be on further developing green tourism initiatives, and growing group travel to the Tamar Valley for the benefit of all tourism and hospitality businesses in the Tamar Valley and bordering areas.

Suppliers and Products

In this section you’ll find a library of wonderful suppliers of products and services for the tourism and hospitality sector. We’re busy curating many more amazing local companies for this section of the website to help businesses find a solution quickly and easily when they have a particular requirement.

If your business has experienced wonderful service and/or great quality from a local supplier and you’d like to recommend the business for inclusion here, drop a line to [email protected]

Meanwhile, happy browsing…

Marketing and Creative

Graphic Words

Tamar Marketing

Identity Studio

Kite Vision

Funny Little Maps

Consultancy and Professional

Jo Butler Consulting

Beside the Box

Dawe, Hawkins & Dodd

Tamar Safety

Utilities

New Generation Energy

Organisations and Associations

Tavistock Chamber of Commerce

Launceston Chamber of Commerce

Articles & Took Kits

Tips for Developing Group Travel Products

Group travel refers to a form of tourism where people travel together as part of a larger group. These groups can vary in size and type, from small groups of friends or family to large tours made up of dozens or more participants. Organised group tours often include the expertise

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Four Key Questions (and answers) about Working with the Travel Trade

Working with the Travel Trade means working with anyone who operates between you as the supplier, and the customer as a tourist. In practice it means teaming up with a host of independent businesses operating globally using various channels through which customers can buy your products and experiences. Sounds good?

Top Tips to Attract Walkers

By Mark Owen, Former South West Coast Path National Trail Officer’ According to Visit England, walking is Britain’s most popular outdoor recreation. It’s popular among international visitors too with nearly one-quarter of overseas visits including a walk in the countryside on their itinerary. The domestic market is also strong: in

Workshops & Webinars

Visit Tamar Valley is on a mission to digitally upskill 100 tourism and hospitality businesses operating in, or nearby the Tamar Valley area. With thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and with the support of the Tamar Valley AONB as part of the Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme’s Come Visit Stay Awhile project.

Visit Tamar Valley is running a series of essential digital skills workshops, both online and in person over the next few years. We’ve chosen a range of topics that we think will give small business owners the skills that they will find the most effective to meet their business objectives.

Every workshop in the programme is fully funded and free to attend.

Here's what people who've attended our workshops are saying.

Very useful and learnt lots that I will use in the future.

Not too fast paced that you felt overwhelmed. Able to ask questions, great if you are requiring the basics.

Excellent workshop. Well delivered with humour and patience. A wealth of information.

The workshop was short & sweet. It was helpful that all participants had a similar skill level. Lots of useful tips and tricks to make design easy & fun

Sarah's instruction was very clear and it was really useful to be able to do an exercise as well ...

Very useful and targeted workshop - really enjoyed having the time to break for coffee and to create our own work - made it more engaging. The time flew by!

Tutor was really great, enthusiastic & knowledgeable

I have already implemented the banner suggestion. I found the stats really useful and thought the lesson was action packed and full of really helpful material.

I found it most enlightening and learnt an awful lot! I will be busy updating our pages and scheduling a plan for our Instagram and Facebook pages in the next couple of weeks so thanks again for a brilliant session!

Visit Tamar Valley Tourism Conference 2024 Slide Decks

Here are the slide decks that were used for some of the presentations at our recent Tourism Conference at the Bedford Hotel in February 2024. Click on each one to download a copy to keep.

Miscellaneous

In this section we’ve included materials that we think might be useful for reference documents. Click each one in turn to read and download.

Image Library

All of the images featured in this library are free of any licence restrictions. You may browse and download as many as you like. More images will be added over time.