Tourism in Cornwall

Last year Cornwall attracted 5 million staying visitors spending more than one billion pounds. The County’s beautiful natural environment is the main reason why people choose Cornwall as a holiday destination. Other motivational factors include the County’s spectacular coastline, glorious gardens, and its three world class attractions: the Tate St Ives, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and the Eden Project.

Cornwall Enterprise, through VisitCornwall, works both for the visitor and for the industry carrying out a wide range of marketing activity and providing a range of support services for tourism businesses. Cornwall Enterprise also works in partnership with the Cornwall Destination Management Organisation (DMO) which was set up to act as one voice for both the public and private sectors.

VisitCornwall

What does VisitCornwall do?

Marketing

VisitCornwall markets the County as a holiday destination for the domestic market and key international markets and carries out two generic marketing campaigns each year focusing on the Spring, Autumn and Winter months.

VisitCornwall also carries out other specialised marketing focusing on the County’s gardens, arts, culture, heritage and the major north coast resort of Newquay.

Press and PR - email       Cornwall Onview - online photo library

Visitor Information

VisitCornwall provides a service to visitors to the county to enable them to find out everything they need to be able to plan their holiday including events, activities, places to visit and places to stay.

For visitor information click here

Membership Scheme

In partnership, VisitCornwall and South West Tourism have joined forces to provide Cornish businesses with a merged membership programme. The membership is specifically designed for tourism, leisure and hospitality establishments and will avoid duplication of effort and maintain a wide range of business benefits. The scheme provides full membership of both organisations for one preferential rate.

For membership information email membership@cornwallenterprise.co.uk

Cornwall Tourism Awards

The Cornwall Tourism Awards were launched in 2002 to celebrate and draw attention to the tremendous changes in quality that have been happening in Cornwall throughout the tourism industry. Over 2,500 of you voted online for your favourite Cornish places and the winners of the 2007 awards were announced at a Gala Evening in November 2007 at the St Mellion Golf and Country Club.  more