Conference Announced

The Visitor Giving Conference 2012 could not be more aptly timed. Destinations across the UK are facing increasingly difficult challenges regarding the maintenance and protection of the visitor attracting landscapes we all know and love.

For years Tourism professionals have understood their role in landscape conservation and in some destinations this understanding has been extended into partnerships between tourism businesses and conservation organisations that quietly protect the very fabric of our landscape based destinations. The most notable example, Nurture Lakeland, implemented Visitor Giving in 1994 with continued startling success.

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Consultants needed for Cycle Tourism Project

Preparation of a Feasibility Study and Delivery Plan for Cycle Tourism in Penrith and the Eden Valley

Nurture Lakeland wish to appoint experienced consultants to prepare a Feasibility Study for the further development of: Penrith as a ‘Cycle Hub’ and cycle tourism in the Eden Valley. The company will need to have proven practical experience in working with organisations and key stakeholders to develop cycling infrastructure and cycle tourism.

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Wildzone Launches With A Wear Red For Wildlife Week

The Wildzone’s ‘Wear Red for Wildlife’ initiative (October 8 to 30) draws inspiration from some of Cumbria’s most iconic creatures, the endangered red squirrel and red deer, but also focuses on birds such as red-breasted merganser and red kite, the red leaves of autumn, red flora and red sunsets over Morecambe Bay.

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Cumbria gets green light for £7m low-carbon

The Department for Transport has today announced the successful bidders for its Local Sustainable Transport Fund and a proposal from Cumbria County Council made in partnership with the Lake District National Park Authority is one of 39 bids across the country to win approval.

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Bridge over the river Kent

staveley_riversideThis is an exciting week for the Staveley Riverside walk ‘Miles without Stiles’ project. As I type, the sound of cranes cranking up outside the windows down here at Staveley River Mill tells me that the new, bespoke bridge will very soon be in place.

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