Favourite Places in Wales: Coelbren

IMGP1307X-0616 Originally uploaded by alanwilliams673 I grew up in Coelbren and I have never seen Station Road looking so good with the Black Mountains and Llyn Y Fan in the background (can’t see the lake from this angle though!).   An excellent shot, have some great memories playing cricket in this field with some great [...]

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Favourite Places in Wales: Porth Dinllaen

Porth Dinllaen Originally uploaded by Eurapart A good friend of mine in the then Wales Tourist Board introduced me to this place, and what a find it was. In working for Wales in Style, a nice part of the job was identifying and experiencing the best tourism products in Wales, and this was certainly one [...]

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The ‘Split Week’ Deal

Ci split Originally uploaded by krystlemiller Problem. You want to stay for a few days over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, we want you to stay a whole week. What do we do?  OK. Here’s the deal: 1) Visit www.gower-holiday.com and have a look around at some of our cottages. Choose one. 2) Pay to [...]

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The ‘Split Week’ Deal

Ci split Originally uploaded by krystlemiller Problem. You want to stay for a few days over the August Bank Holiday Weekend, we want you to stay a whole week. What do we do?  OK. Here’s the deal: 1) Visit www.gower-holiday.com and have a look around at some of our cottages. Choose one. 2) Pay to [...]

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Favourite Places in Wales: The Sleeping Giant

Y Cawr Cwsg (Sleeping Giant) Originally uploaded by arfon2007 Y Cawr Cwsg (Sleeping Giant) is the Cribarth Mountain, Abercrave South West of the Brecon Beacons about half way in between Brecon and Swansea. Grew up looking at this mountain every day and this certainly isn’t the best view of it, however, this is the view [...]

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What is Wales?

Most people reading this would have found your way here from Twitter, so thanks for following me, and thanks for meeting me here too! As someone who lives and breathes tourism in Wales, I am always interested in whether or not you’ve ever been to our country, where you are from and more importantly, what immediately springs to [...]

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The Perfect Tourism brief?

Tension – from The Pork Roast Tourism Study Originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness] Thank you to all the tourism consultants who have recently sent us copies of strategy briefs and expressed an interest in undertaking the work for my client. Details have now been passed over to the procurement department who will handle the tendering process [...]

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Favourite Places in Wales: Wales National Airshow

What a great day this was today. A rare Summers’ day off for me which took us as a family (even my mother was in tow!) down to our apartment Milkwood (for us to enjoy for a change!), and on to the beach outside where the Wales National Airshow was taking place. Thousands cramed the [...]

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The best tourism Facebook pages?

Trying to create a list of some great Facebook pages used in the tourism industry as a training resource for small buisnesses in Welsh tourism.  If anyone knows of any examples that might help, inspire, demonstrate, that would be great.  Thanks again – Andrew

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Favourite Places in Wales: Swansea Bay

Love it. Swansea Bay. Great memories of playing touch rugby twice a week and football once a week on this patch during our lunch hour when working in the civic centre, and in Summer often ended up in the sea for a dip. Great times and this shot does it for me. The beach is [...]

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