Tourism

English Riviera Attractions Showcase

English Riviera Attractions Showcase

The English Riviera Attractions Partnership is a consortium of outstanding visitor attractions located across the Bay. At ERAP, we work together to not only enhance the success of our attractions but to promote the English Riviera as a whole, cementing our position as...

Stepping out with the ERBID

Stepping out with the ERBID

Here's your chance to put a spring in your step with a special Torbay event. The new English Riviera Spring Walking Festival will take place from April 22 to 29. Building on the success of last year’s autumn event, the festival features more than 20 fun and...

ERBID Marketing and Visitor Survey Reports

ERBID Marketing and Visitor Survey Reports

In 2022 the ERBID Company invested £442,224 (including committed spend for 2023 National Advertising) in a wide programme of local, regional and national promotional activity. As a result, over 1 million people visited the official English Riviera consumer...

New Destination Management Plan

New Destination Management Plan

A new plan to make Torbay the UK’s premier visitor destination and help boost the local economy has now been adopted by Torbay Council. The Destination Management Plan sets out the interventions that can help propel the English Riviera forward, building on the...

ERBID2 Update

ERBID2 Update

In June 2021 a positive majority vote was secured allowing the English Riviera Business Improvement District (ERBID) to continue for a second 5-year term (2022-2027). The key objective of the ERBID is to invest money raised through the compulsory Levy Collection from...

£3m to promote English Riviera for the next 5 years

£3m to promote English Riviera for the next 5 years

After an independent month-long postal ballot, eligible businesses operating across the English Riviera have voted YES to continue the English Riviera Business Improvement District (ERBID2). It will now operate until 2027 spending over £3m in that time to market and...

ERBID2 Final Business Plan

ERBID2 Final Business Plan

View/download the full plan hereDownload the plan summary herePostal Ballot Opens 27th May and Closes 24th June A letter from Tim Godfrey, Chair, English Riviera Bid Company Ltd My sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed in preparing this Final English Riviera...

English Riviera BID 2

English Riviera BID 2

Later this spring the English Riviera BID will be up for renewal, for a further 5 years. The BID will provide funding of over £3m over the next 5 years to be spend on Destination Marketing, promoting the English Riviera around the country (and abroad) as a perfect...

Tourism businesses can re-open from 4th July

Tourism businesses can re-open from 4th July

On the 4th July we hope that many of our local Tourism and Hospitality businesses will re-open having been shut since March 23rd. This moment has been patiently waited for with Tourism and Hospitality Businesses the first to be closed by Government and the last to be...

ERBID Tourism Exhibition 2020 Cancelled

ERBID Tourism Exhibition 2020 Cancelled

Update Statement from the ERBID Company It is with regret that I am contacting you to advise that the ERBID Company has made the decision further to developments over the weekend to postpone the Tourism Exhibition (due to take place on 18th March) until the Autumn.  ...

TV news anchors drop in to Brixham

TV news anchors drop in to Brixham

TV celebrities Michael Burke and John Sergeant stopped off in Brixham as part of a sailing trip around the coast of the UK. The pair were filming for a new series about sailing around the UK and had set off from Lowestoft. After four weeks at sea, they were greeted on...