Our members are drawn from local authority tourism services and DMOs 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

  
SUBSCRIBERS BY CATEGORY (at 31 March 2010) 

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

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

City Two:          Category Head: Greenwich
Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Canterbury, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Lincoln, Oxford, South Warwickshire, Winchester, Windsor and Maidenhead, York

City Three:       Category Head: (rotates by meeting)
Caerphilly, Cannock Chase, Chesterfield, Exeter, Gloucester, Guildford, Maidstone, Peterborough,  Torfaen, Tunbridge Wells,