Our members are drawn from local authority tourism services across the UK and allocated to various generic category groups.  Category 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

City Three: Smaller regional hub locations with populations of 80,000-150,000.  Majoring on historic, rural and industrial attractions.  Very active in tourism, all with TICs

City Four: 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 – Southernmost counties: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire, Gwynedd

       South – Northernmost counties: Norfolk , Cambridgeshire, Rutland, Northhamptonshire, Leicestershire, Warkwickshire, West Midlands , Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Powys, Ceredigion

London: Greater London Authority and London boroughs

  
SUBSCRIBERS BY CATEGORY (at April 2008) 

Counties        Category Head: Hampshire
Bedfordshire, Cornwall Enterprise, Essex, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Norfolk, Suffolk, West Sussex

City One          Category Head: Leeds
Birmingham, Bradford, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Gateshead, Liverpool, Medway, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Salford, Sheffield, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent 

City Two          Category Head: Canterbury
Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Greenwich, Lincoln, Norwich, Oxford, Salisbury, Shrewsbury & Atcham, Southwark, South Warwickshire, Winchester, Windsor, York (City of)

City Three        Category Head: Exeter
Caerphilly, Cannock Chase, Carlisle, Chesterfield, Gloucester, Guildford, Halton, Lichfield, Maidstone, Peterborough, Rushmoor, Stockton-on-Tees, Torfaen, Tunbridge Wells, Wrexham