Our Members

Our members, who are designated as either Principal Destinations, Major Destinations or Destinations are drawn from local authority tourism services, Destination Management Organisations and destination partnerships across the UK and allocated to various generic groups. Group definitions are as follows:

Counties: County Council tourism departments or county-based DMO/DMPs.

City One: Renaissance cities: post-industrial cities (not obviously historic or traditional) using tourism marketing and development for regeneration. 

City Two: Small historic cities with a strong emphasis on heritage, culture, shopping and year-round tourism and small regional hub locations with populations of 80,000 - 150,000.  Majoring on historic, rural and industrial attractions.  Very active in tourism, all with TIC's.

City Three: Large, mainly urban. Towns and cities with populations over 200,000.  Historically, economies have tended to be based upon heavy industry and manufacturing.  Geographically, tend to be in Midlands or North.

Coastal: Coastal resorts of all sizes with a significant stretch of urban or rural coastline and possibly a rural hinterland.  Will comprise a main seaside town or several small resorts which generate the majority of tourism activity and economic wealth.

Rural: Destinations that are rural in nature but may have coastline.  Districts tend to have low populations and contain small, little-known market towns with few major attractions.  They promote themselves as a mix of countryside pursuits, arts, literature and heritage.

      North – Destinations in all counties in N Ireland; destinations in counties in northern England and Wales up to and including Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire, Gwynedd.

       South – Destinations in counties in southern England and Wales up to and including Norfolk , Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Warkwickshire, West Midlands , Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Powys, Ceredigion.

  
Sunscribers by Generic Group 2011/12 

Counties:        Group Head: Hampshire
Cornwall, Durham, Essex, Herefordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Suffolk, VistWiltshire, West Sussex

City One:          Group Head: rotates by meeting
Bradford, Coventry, Gateshead, Leeds, Liverpool, Medway, Portsmouth, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland 

City Two:          Group Head: Greenwich
Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Cannock Chase, Canterbury, Chesterfield, Chichester, Exeter, Durham, Guildford, Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells, Winchester, Windsor and Maidenhead, York

City Three:          Group Head: rotates by meeting
Dudley, Rochdale, Stockport, Trafford, Wolverhampton

Coastal:             Group Head: Hastings
Blackpool, Bournemouth, Bridgend, Conwy, Dover, Eastbourne, East Lindsey, East Riding of Yorkshire, English Riviera, Fylde, Great Yarmouth, Isle of Man, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Kings Lynn & West Norfolk, Lancaster, North Down, North Norfolk, North Somerset, North Tyneside, Pembrokeshire, Purbeck, Redcar & Cleveland, Scarborough, Sedgemoor, Sefton, Southend, South Tyneside, Swale, City & County of Swansea, Tendring, Vale of Glamorgan, Waveney, Weymouth and Portland, Worthing

Rural South:      Group Head: Lewes
Cherwell, Forest Heath, New Forest, Powys, Rother, Wealden, West Berkshire, West Oxfordshire, Wycombe

Public Sector Bodies :  Office for National Statistics