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Membership of YTB provides free of charge access to large discounts in a wide range of product categories including fresh / frozen foods, alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks, telephone calls, credit card facilities, insurance, energy and much more. Please contact ipa to find out more.
Finesse is a UK based, independent company that examines your existing utility supply arrangements with a view to offering you savings.
Streamline (www.streamline.com)
300 YTB members using Streamline cannot be wrong! Competitive preferential rates are available to Yorkshire Tourist Board Members.
(N.B. Rates will differ if more than 50% of transactions are Card Holder not Present.)
Cumberland Building Society (www.cumberland.co.uk)
Providers of a range of financial services.
Travellers Protection Services Limited (www.tpsltd.com)
For as little as £8.50, your guests can benefit not only from protection against cancelled bookings, but also personal accident, car breakdown and Homeplan to name just a few. And for every policy sold, you earn a generous 20% commission - it is as easy as that!
P J Hayman & Company Ltd (www.pjhayman.com)
From just £7, our UK Plus Insurance can protect your guests' bookings against cancellation. UK Plus also provides cover for curtailment, medical repatriation, personal accident, personal liability, baggage, personal effects and money, and travel delay. For every policy sold, you will earn 20% commission. Apply for details of UK Plus today!
Windsor Insurance Brokers to Windsor Partners Ltd. (www.windsor.co.uk)
Competitive rates for YTB members.
Westfield Health (www.westfieldhealth.com)
Health Insurance but without the expensive price tag.
Ryan Hospitality Insurance Division Ryan Hospitality Insurance Division (www.hospitality-insurance.co.uk)
Ryan’s Hospitality Insurance Division is an experienced team who specialise in providing insurance solutions to the hospitality industry, specifically for Hotel's, B&B's & Guesthouses, Self Catering Accommodation, Restaurants, Pubs & Inns.
Innway publications (www.innway.co.uk)
InnWay Publications is owned and operated by Mark Reid, freelance travel writer and author of 'The Inn Way' series of walking guidebooks covering the North of England. Specialist subjects include hill-walking, country pubs and outdoor pursuits. Mark Reid also operates teamwalking.co.uk, which offers team building, guided walks and unique corporate entertaining in the Great Outdoors.
Elmtree Press (www.elmtreepress.co.uk)
Elmtree press publish and distribute Yorkshire bedroom browser folders to accommodation providers.
Leeds press LTD (www.leedspress.co.uk)
Print, direct mail, distribution fulfilment and storage.
Northern Print Distribution LTD (www.npdnorth.co.uk)
Distributors and merchandisers of leaflets and guides. Print material storage and order fulfilment throughout the North of England.
Around and About Tourism (www.aroundandabout.net)
Distribution of leaflets and order fulfilment.
Dalesman Publishing Company LTD (www.dalesman.co.uk)
Publishers of magazines, books and videos about Yorkshire the lake district and the peak district.
Welcome Folders Ltd
Welcome Folders publish and distribute bedroom browsers to accommodation providers throughout the Harrogate and Yorkshire Dales areas.
Tel: 015394 45607
Email: enquiries@welcometolakeland.com
AY Creative Services (www.aycreativeservices.com)
AY Creative Services (AYCS) is the trading arm of Audiences Yorkshire and is the region's market leader in print distribution for the creative sector, distributing 37.2 million leaflets in the last year to key regional sites.
Audiences Yorkshire (www.audiencesyorkshire.org.uk)
Audience development agency for Yorkshire and the Humber; providing expert audience research; marketing and audience development consultancy; mentoring; training; events and print distribution. Call us and find out how we can help deliver the results you want, on time and on budget.
Ware & Kay Solicitors (www.warekay.co.uk)
Expert, friendly help and advice whatever your needs. Ware & Kay provides professional legal services to individuals and businesses throughout Yorkshire.
Garbutt and Elliott (www.garbutt-elliott.co.uk)
We are one of the larger independent firms of accountants, taxation and business advisors in the North and our aim is to offer small and medium sized businesses a comprehensive range of specialist support and advisory services as and when required. All businesses, large and small, now operate in an increasingly complex and fast changing business environment.
Barry crux & company (www.barrycrux.co.uk)
Chartered surveyors, commercial and residential property.
CBI (www.cbi.org.uk)
Confederation of British Industry
Denison Till (www.denisontill.com)
Leading commercial law firm Denison Till has an enviable reputation for providing practical, quality legal advice to businesses across the York & North Yorkshire region, throughout the UK and overseas.
Rotography (www.rotography.com)
Rotography help hospitality and tourism professionals managers differentiate themselves and their products from their competitors using a variety of innovative online marketing tools such as Virtual Tours, HD Digital Stills, Flash Slide Shows, Web Video, e-brochures & eNEWSletters, and SEO / PPC advice.
Carrier Direct Marketing (www.carrierdirectmarketing.co.uk)
For all your direct marketing needs.
iknow-uk limited (www.iknow-uk.com)
For all your online marketing needs.
Skyblue Research Consultancy (www.skyblueresearch.co.uk)
inspired by the ideals of the Olympic Charter and specialising in skills research and solutions for the tourism, sport and cultural industries.
Email: alan@skyblue-research.co.uk
Blue Badge Guide York Japanese language
Japanese language service
Au Marketing Services (www.au-marketingservices.co.uk)
Au are a full service direct marketing agency specialising in the travel and tourism industry. Services include management/marketing consultancy, market research, database management, direct marketing, customer satisfaction questionnaires (on line and off line) and all forms of printed material. Additionally, Au provide call centre, response handling and fulfilment services for prestigious tour operator, cruise, hotel group and retail agency clients.
Stephen Feber LTD (www.stephenfeber.com)
Consultants in economic development,regeneration and tourism.
QA Research & Brackenhill Design (www.qaresearch.co.uk)
Providing attraction and destination research, marketing and design.
Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (www.ydmt.org)
Independent charity working with local communities to carry out conservation projects. Working to ensure the dales scenery and local communities survive.
Bow House LTD (www.bowhouse.co.uk)
Web solutions, design and graphics, brochures, leaflets and promotional material.
www.ictdirectory.co.uk (www.ictdirectory.co.uk)
Should you have any ICT requirements and wish to obtain quotations from reputable suppliers, why not visit www.ictdirectory.co.uk which will explain how you can highlight these on the website for interested suppliers to respond. Your requirements are placed on the website without your business details to ensure anonymity and interested suppliers will respond in the first instance to the Government backed 'Club UK Online' who will then contact you with the suppliers' details.
Digital Visitor (www.digitalvisitor.co.uk)
We offer cost-effective video production and bespoke video solutions to fit any brief and any budget to market your products and services. We are video delivery specialists and can get your videos seen by more potential customers. What's more – we do this at a fraction of the cost of distributing traditional marketing materials such as brochures.
Corporate Safety Solutions Ltd (www.corporatesafetysolutions.co.uk)
Professional Health and Safety Services, Fire Risk Assessment, Risk Assessment, Food Hygiene Services and Training, Safety Management Services and Training. Nationally accredited course providers - Managing Safely and Directing Safely. For further information on any of the areas please visit our site www.corporatesafetysolutions.co.uk or contact us directly Tel: 01904 691299
Willow Business Support (www.willowbusinesssupport.co.uk)
Willow Business Support was founded by Susie Brindley, who identified a need to offer first class service and first class industry and training solutions to business. Following many years working at Yorkshire Tourist Board, and prior to that in the private sector, Susie has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share with her clients, in a supportive, confidential and constructive way. A team of experienced and professional associates, who are specialists in marketing, sales, research and event management, are now working with Willow Business Support Ltd. We also offer all of the nationally acclaimed Welcome to Excellence programme, including Welcome Host at massively discounted prices.
Willow Business Support offers planning, advice and action formulated to help businesses to achieve their ultimate goals. Our services tackle many of the challenges faced by today's small businesses. We will guide you step-by-step on planning how best to plug the holes and improve the services through which your profit is leaking every week and will deliver real measurable results!
Wallis Business Services Ltd (www.wallisbusinessservices.co.uk)
Discounts for YTB members off stationery, printing, copying, binding, laminating and design work, furniture, seating, desking and filing, computers, copiers, facsimile, printers and other office machines.
White Rose International LTD (www.white-rose-international.com)
Supplier of quality Yorkshire merchandise, flags, bunting, clothing all with white rose emblem.
Identity (www.identity.co.uk)
Suppliers of embroidered work and leisure ware for a unique individual touch.
A J Promotions (www.ajpromotions.co.uk)
One of Yorkshire's leading suppliers of promotional merchandise, leisurewear, business gifts and souvenirs
The AA (www.theaa.com)
AA Breakdown Assistance - Discounts for YTB Members. YTB has teamed up with The AA, the UK's number 1 in breakdown assistance, to offer members access to a 25% discount on joining The AA and 10% discount every year thereafter. For more information or to join, YTB members should call simply call 08705 444 222 and quote reference: "662"
The Sovereign Chauffeur Co (www.sovereign-chauffeur.co.uk)
The Sovereign Chauffeur Co is a multi-facet, highly trained chauffeur service that offers the business community a wide variety of executive vehicles from saloons and luxury people carriers to larger-occupancy vehicles such as 16-seater to 53-seater coaches.
Quadventures (www.quadventures.co.uk)
We provide entertaining adventure driving experiences for all ages. From our country estate base we are able to offer a wide choice of adventures, both within the park boundaries and further afield. This includes treks through magnificent Yorkshire Dales and Moors countryside. Driver or Passenger, 15 minute taster, 30 and 60 minute tours, Half and Full Day Safaris, Adventure Park Birthday Parties, Special Interest. For example, focus on photos, nature trail, treasure hunt, Tailor Made - a one-off special just for you Corporate Events. Discounted for YTB Members
Gillies Jones (www.gilliesjonesglass.co.uk)
Contemporary Personalised Gifts. Do you need a gift for a special occasion? Have a valued member of staff leaving? An award to present? We make exquisite hand blown glass bowls in a variety of beautiful colours. We can personalise each bowl with a name and message to make it a truly timeless, sophisticated and personal gift. We are pleased to offer members of YTB a 10% discount on special commemorative glass pieces.
A bowl, personalised with an event or name or special details and supplied gift boxed, (excluding delivery) start from £110 for a colour bowl. (Please see our web site on the link in the header to see a sample of our work.) Ideal as a special occasion gift for a valued member of staff and perfect as a contemporary, timeless award. Past clients include the British Council, Yorkshire Culture, West Yorkshire Police and Princes Trust and many more. Please do not hesitate to get in touch for more info and quote your membership number.
Shortridge Ltd (www.shortridge.co.uk)
Shortridge Ltd. offers laundry services and linen and work wear hire. We use excellent machinery and a traditional approach of hand feeding and finishing to ensure high quality standards. We currently serve some of the most prestigious and well-known accommodation providers and restaurants in the North and Scotland. Our new depot in Thirsk will enable us to offer our first class service to businesses in North Yorkshire. Please contact George Holliday on 01845 518044 or thirsk@shortridge.co.uk to discuss our special starter rates for Yorkshire Tourist Board members.
Clout Marketing and Media
Clout Marketing and Media provides a professional, personal marketing and public relations service for independent tourism and leisure businesses across Yorkshire. We provide a friendly, honest and professional service which capitalises on our skills and knowledge and recognises the constraints within which many tourism businesses operate.
To put some Clout behind your business, please contact Ros on 01274 564582/ 07976 609 264 or email ros@cloutmarketingandmedia.co.uk
Please ask for details of discounts available to YTB members.
GBSuccess.com
www.GBsuccess.com is a low cost method for measuring success or failure of individual advertisements or targeted marketing campaigns. When customers call your sales office, we’ll tell you how they found you!
HOW: By providing a unique ‘smart’ telephone number into each ad, you will be able to see statistics, graphs & charts relating to all the responses generated. Reports are fully customisable and available to download for further analysis.
You still answer the calls and no additional telephone lines are required.
WHERE: Use our ‘smart’ numbers on different pages of your web site promoting Special Offers, trade web sites & magazines, leaflets, newspaper ads, email campaigns or even outside of your premises to measure passing trade enquiries.
QUICK: Once you have an account, you can choose your own numbers for any GB town or city and have it up & running in seconds.
SUCCESS:
- Only advertise where you can prove it works!
- Can you reduce staff hours to just the busy times of the day?
- Renegotiate advertising rates based on fact.
NOW: Beat the Credit Crunch. Maximise your marketing budget today. Call 01274 299300.