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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 […]

February Update – A new season of Culture May Catt, Visitor & Cultural Services Manager Spring may be emerging slowly, but we’re steaming apace into a new and distinct season of culture. Inspiring exhibitions to exhilarate and entertain have brought fresh energy to the Mercer Gallery, with exciting developments underway to invigorate and improve our […]

Destination Harrogate – January Update by John McGivern, Destination Events Manager The arrival of a new year always seems to bring about an expectation of change. “Out with the old and in with the new”, so the familiar saying goes – but with the calendar page having turned to 2023 we’re embracing an exciting combination […]

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 […]

There was a great turnout for Destination Harrogate’s autumn Attractions Forum, which took place at Stockeld Park between Harrogate and Wetherby. In summer 2022, Stockeld Park launched a brand new visitor experience: the Playhive, which marketing and communications specialists attending the Attractions Forum had the opportunity to discover and explore. Several new faces were welcomed […]

Destination Harrogate is encouraging partners to enter the newly-launched Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards 2022, nominations for which are now open. The awards will celebrate the cream of the crop of Yorkshire’s hoteliers; bed and breakfast accommodation providers; restaurants; theme parks; attractions and all businesses that attract visitors to the county. Highlighting the outstanding customer service, […]

Destination Harrogate is proud to support Project Yorkshire: A Playground Like No Other – a new film that highlights Yorkshire as a first choice destination to visit and in which to live, work and invest. Launched on 1st August – Yorkshire Day – 2022, the film, narrated by Sean Bean, spearheads a year-long campaign by […]