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Browsing and downloading images now easier than ever with new Library module
13 April 2010
Create a large and fully manageable collection of free stock photographs, downloadable by public visitors, DMO trade clients and marketing agencies.
Enjoy Staffordshire on the move
12 April 2010
Now it's even easier to explore all that Staffordshire has to offer as the area's Destination Management Organisation launches new mobile website.
Guestlink Cymru roadshow around Wales
1 April 2010
Guestlink Cymru deliver their latest series of valuable training sessions, this time to accommodation providers, Attractions and Activities around Wales. "Excellent and worthwhile attending" is how one delegate describes it.
Leading Destination mobile site tops 1m page views
30 March 2010
New Vision client Cumbria Tourism, one of the first tourist boards in the country to have a .mobi website, has seen their site top an impressive one million page views and generate an additional 23,000+ visits to provider website.
Stone-skimming app creates worldwide ripple
30 March 2010
Discover Cumbria Tourism's innovative approach to promoting the best their destination has to offer using the latest cutting-edge technology.
Guestlink training a success
12 October 2009
Our team have been working tirelessly to complete a busy schedule of Guestlink training sessions. The relaxed and informal approach by Nicole went down well with Providers in Yorkshire.
Seaside Capital Goes Blue!
3 October 2009
Discover how Southend Borough Council's modern and stylish new website is opening up new opportunities to encourage visitor spend and enhancing their eMarketing strategy.
Bookings Roll In For AWOL Yorkshire B&B Owners
17 September 2009
Picture the scene. You are on holiday, relaxing in the blistering heat, soaking up the ambient culture and enjoying your new environment, whilst still managing your tourism business online. This is just what happened to Alison Barnes and Lionel Green, Proprietors of Crakehall Watermill, whilst on holiday in Vietnam recently.
New Vision invited to participate in VB Operations Group Meetings
23 August 2009
"New Vision are delighted to have been awarded level 4 Technical Partner status by Visit England" said Ben Tagg, MD, who is pleased to actively participate the new remodelled VisitBritain Group Operations meetings.
Premier venue exploits marketing opportunities with New Vision website
10 August 2009
"We now have key and significant advantages in marketing to both current and potential clients, locally, nationally and globally." Kate Smith, Ramside Hall
Roomcheck boosts bookings!
20 July 2009
The launch of our new Roomcheck site is a huge success with numbers of providers signing up to this exciting new accommodation booking and destination promotion site rising steadily. June saw an additional 77 bednight bookings taken (among current providers) with an average booking value of £672.
Streamlining communication between Destination and Provider
10 June 2009
Helping Cumbria Tourism engage and serve their visitor-dependent business community.
And the winner is...
8 December 2008
We are very pleased to announce that two clients have recently won prestigious 'Ecellence in Tourism' awards. Our congratulations go to Shakespeare Country and VisitKent for their award winning websites!
Wakefield TIC Win White Rose Award - With Help From Digital Print
10 October 2008
Hazel Birdsall, Tourism Officer for Wakefield District Council, explains how she is, "really happy for the TIC to be using the New Vision Group's Digital Print option. The TIC uses it to both email information and physically give 'hard copy' to visitors." She continues, "We believe it contributed towards our winning the White Rose Award for Tourist Information Service of the Year 2008."
All For One... And Online For All!
9 July 2008
The pledge being put to Yorkshire tourism operators is one of opportunity and collaboration as the tourism chiefs in Yorkshire unite to promote 'All for one... and online for all' in its quest to make the region bookable online through guestlink, the Regional Destination Management System (DMS), provided by the New Vision Group.
New Vision Group Doing The Right Thing For Green Tourism
30 June 2008
Everybody's talking about it. Green, and therefore sustainable, tourism is proving popular with consumers as more and more people try to 'do the right thing'. However, how can they be sure that their holiday is leaving as small a carbon footprint as possible? Green Business (UK) Ltd is a not-for-profit organisation that delivers the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS), the World's leading green grading scheme for tourism businesses. New Vision Group is delighted to announce its first affiliate site - www.green-tourism.co.uk - operated by Green Business (UK) Ltd, providing a consumer-facing website with the ability to take bookings online, using the New Vision Group's paperless e-tourism platform.
Hull & East Yorkshire global audience growing on-line
18 June 2008
New Vision Group and tourism partnership, Visit Hull & East Yorkshire (VHEY) have worked together to launch and maintain a successful destination management system and online booking service. The new site's success is growing and it has achieved over 600,000 page impressions since its launch late last year -176,000 of that number were made in May alone. Ongoing site developments include an e-personalisation module that was launched this spring.
York Guest House Competes on World Stage Proving That Size Really Doesn't Matter
21 May 2008
"95% of my new business comes from the internet", says Graham Fisher from The Heathers Guest House, a six bedroomed 4 star property in York. Graham sings the praises of guestlink and the Regional Destination Management System (DMS) from New Vision.
Colchester Tourism Website Welcomes Millionth Visitor
18 April 2008
Colchester's Tourism team are celebrating after learning that the VisitColchester.com website had served its millionth visitor during March. The New Vision Group, as the company that designed and built the site and provides the technology behind the Destination Management System (DMS) employed by the site, offered its own congratulations.
tourism website "one of best five in world"
18 April 2008
CUMBRIA Tourism's website is in the running for a major international award next month. The website was designed in conjunction with top marketeers Cheetham Bell JWT Manchester and the platform supplied by the New Vision Group in Hertfordshire. Cumbria Tourism's e-tourism team was heavily involved in the build of the website and help keep the content current and topical.
New Vision For The New Tourism Season
4 April 2008
A year ago, with the backing of Yorkshire Forward, Yorkshire Tourist Board (YTB), the six sub-regional Tourism Partnerships (TP) and New Vision Group Ltd began implementing a region-wide Destination Management System (DMS) to meet the tourism needs of Yorkshire & Humber businesses, tourism professionals and holiday makers. One year on, and like most anniversaries, it's time to take stock of what's happened, how it happened and how everyone continues to move forward to work towards a successful new tourism season.
TOURISM TECHNOLOGY FORUM SUCCESS
28 March 2008
This years' New Vision Group Annual Tourism Technology Forum, held at the National Coalmining Museum, Wakefield, on the 28th February 2008, was attended by over 100 delegates from tourism destinations across the UK. Bigger and better than ever before, the event was extremely well received by delegates.
Experts in Lichfield
8 March 2008
The first of March saw more than twenty New Vision clients settled into the very comfortable George Hotel in Lichfield for the latest Experts Day. As usual it was a very intense program - only the liberal application of tea and coffee and a great lunch sustained our clients through it...
Forward in Yorkshire
2 March 2008
Yorkshire is doing something unusual in tourism. It is implementing a region-wide Destination Management System (DMS) which will service the tourism delivery needs of Yorkshire & Humber businesses, tourism professionals and holiday makers.