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Congratulations to Visit Isle of Wight Travel Ambassador, Aaron Orman, who has been short-listed in the Visit England Tourism Superstar awards 2016.
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Screen tourism is a growing phenomenon, with more and more locations across the UK benefitting from a booming screen industry. Visit Isle of Wight are doing their bit to attract film-makers to the Island.
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Cream of the crop Island Tourism Businesses crowned at The Beautiful South Awards 2015
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Three years into a nine-year agreement, the council has formally written to Visit Isle of Wight to confirm it will cease funding because of its own budget pressures.
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The ballot has closed, the results are in and the answer is Yes! The Isle of Wight will now be able to develop the Business Improvement District.
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Visit Isle of Wight have succeeded in its priority mission to attract 'first time visitors' to the Isle of Wight. There have been 80,000 of them in the last three years.
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A whopping 19 meetings have taken place between November and February across the Isle of Wight explaining how the Destination Business Improvement Plan (DBID) will work. A draft paper has now been released and OnTheWight can share it with you.
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Congratulations over 300 businesses on the Isle of Wight who have been awarded Certificates of Excellence by TripAdvisor.
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There was good news and bad as the Island saw the highest every number of first timers over the summer, but the overall; number of visitors dropped due to Bestival leaving the Island and that awful wet weather.
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A conference to discuss the future of tourism on the Isle of Wight was also praised by councillors at the full council meeting.
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As mentioned at the beginning of the week, Visit Isle of Wight have launched a new App, Isle of Fright!
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Following a deferment in November, the judge has now delivered the sentencing on the woman who stole £34k from Visit Isle of Wight. The head of VIoW speaks.
