Thousands of visitors enjoy Carmarthenshire each year, but is your community making the most of its tourism potential? Or if you run a tourism business, are you maximising its full potential?
Carmarthenshire Tourist Association's Rural Tourism Clusters Project, which runs until December 2013, aims to encourage those of you rural Carmarthenshire to work together to have a positive impact on your community by boosting tourism in your area. And importantly, provides the support to develop ideas and opportunities - through industry expertise, training courses, best practise visits, feasibility studies and a range of grant support.
Whether you run a business, are part of a group or association, or simply lucky enough to live in rural Carmarthenshire - you're encouraged to get involved by coming along to your area's meetings and becoming part of your local tourism cluster group. As well as those involved in the tourism industry, we're also calling upon those of you familiar with your area's unique history, heritage, culture, myths & legends, wildlife, architecture and so on - as these are the things that make your area distinctive and special and important in attracting visitors and tourists.
East Tourism Cluster Meeting
Date: Monday 20th February
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Castle Hotel, Llandovery
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Central Tourism Cluster Meeting
Date: Thursday 23rd February
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: St Peters Civic Hall, Carmarthen
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North West Tourism Cluster Meeting
Date: Wednesday 22nd February
Time: 6pm
Venue: Red Dragon Hall, Drefach Felindre
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North Tourism Cluster Meeting
Date: Wednesday 29th February
Time: 6pm
Venue: Pumsaint Coronation Hall
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West Tourism Cluster Meeting
Date: Tuesday 28th February
Time: 6pm
Venue: Jabajak, Whitland
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Your Tourism Cluster Groups
Five tourism clusters have been formed - with meetings, activities and new tourism initiatives taking place in each of these for the duration of our Project. These tourism clusters will take in a wide range of communities, villages and towns - and dividing the county's rural wards into five different areas surrounding the key strategic hubs of the Rural Development Plan. So, our Tourism Clusters are: Central, East, North, North West and West Carmarthenshire. To find out more about the areas, please see the map above.
Details of your next local tourism cluster meetings and events and can be found in the 'News and Events' column on the left - together with all the other latest updates on what's happening as part of the Project in your area. For full information, simply click on your local tourism cluster page from the main menu or by clicking on the map above.
The project team is here to provide the support and guidance you need to take your ideas forward, to maximise your business' potential - and to make a positive difference to your community.
Project Team Gossip...
We have been busy organising the first working group meeting – Promotions, Marketing & Communications Seminar in the Halfway, Nantgaredig. The meeting went really well and we are now busy in the process of organising the two other working group meetings for January.
The first working group theme on the 19th January 2012 is:
Events & festivals, Food & Retail
The second working group theme on the 25th January 2012 is:
Trails, Signage, the Great Outdoors & Activities
Dates for the second Clusters Meetings held in February will be sent out shortly
We look forward to seeing you all then!
Carmarthenshire Tourist Association, Business Resource Centre, Parc Amanwy, New Road, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, SA18 3EP
T: 01269 598140 E: info@visitcarmarthenshire.co.uk
This project is part of Carmarthenshire's Innovative Hubs Project - and has received funding through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 which is funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
