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Every July the UK’s largest agricultural event, the Great Yorkshire Show arrives at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, bringing with it over 140,000 visitors across four days. Now in its 164th year, showgoers travel from far and wide to celebrate agriculture, food, farming and countryside.  Visitors to the show often visit Harrogate town centre […]

Destination Harrogate – Summer Update by John McGivern, Destination Events Manager Summer is here and do you find it makes you more sociable? Warm weather and blue skies naturally lift our mood and make us want to grab a group of friends and head outside to enjoy it all. Eating and drinking al fresco, sports […]

Rudding Park shares plans with local hotel industry Wednesday 10th May saw our Sales & Marketing Managers networking evening move to the magnificent surroundings of Rudding Park.  This privately owned luxury hotel, with 90 bedrooms a destination spa, two restaurants, a kitchen garden, private cinema, two golf courses all set in 300 acres of landscaped […]

Destination Harrogate – May Update by John McGivern, Destination Events Manager Only a year ago, Destination Harrogate was celebrating a milestone birthday for the Harrogate Convention Centre and reflecting on 40 years since the opening of its 2000-seat main auditorium. It was at this venue in 1982 that Harrogate hosted the Eurovision Song Contest and […]

Destination Harrogate turns one with big boost to the visitor economy As Destination Harrogate turns one, and to kick off English Tourism Week (17 – 26 March), we are delighted to announce new figures that show the tourism and conference sector is making a greater contribution to the local economy than it was before the […]

Following the success of the first Visit Harrogate Restaurant Week, Destination Harrogate is now planning for a second Restaurant Week later in 2023. Visit Harrogate Restaurant Week – which ran from 6 to 10 February, supported by hotels, restaurants and pubs across the Harrogate district – threw a spotlight on the amazing and diverse range […]

Destination Harrogate has delivered a comprehensive offering of Christmas activities and integrated marketing activity to deliver Destination Christmas for the second year bringing visitors to the district and increasing footfall to the businesses of the town centres.  It’s too soon to quantify the impact of the event but as an indicator, our own  Harrogate Tourist […]

Destination Harrogate – December Update by John McGivern, Destination Events Manager As I’m writing this I’m thinking of all the Christmas analogies under the sun, to describe what it has been like to work on such an amazing and collaborative project as Destination Christmas, which we launched to great success in Harrogate last Friday. Would […]