Testimonials

July 2008

We've been really happy with Visit/Destination Bristol since we joined - plenty of enquiries from it about the business and, pound-for-pound, easily the most effective of the many marketing strategies we've used. So thanks!

Ed Sinclair, Karaoke-Me!

www.karaoke-me.co.uk

March 2008

I just wanted to say a big thank you to you and your team at Destination Bristol. As a result of my Easter egg making listing on the Visit Bristol website I was inundated with people over the weekend. Adults and children all wanted to have a go and every single one saw the ad on your website!

It was brilliant to see that The Evening Post listed the information in their thurs paper and Bristol radio gave me a mention on the saturday programme. I was then even more delighted when I read that The Village Pottery was listed as number 23 in "Top 50 Best British Days Out" in the Observer paper on Sunday.

The work that Destination Bristol does is so valuable to small businesses like myself that don't have a large advertising budget. Being a member is money well spent!

Many thanks,

The Village Pottery

www.thevillagepottery.co.uk

Thanks to everyone for all your help - great training opportunities, valuable professional advice and support and all the benefits of being part of a wider body of people doing the same business - very reassuring and extremely important in the development of our organisation. Worth every penny!

The Southville Centre

www.southvillecentre.org.uk

Since joining Destination Bristol 4 years ago with our bed and breakfast business we haven't looked back. We're fully booked 3 months in advance with people changing their dates to fit in with our availability.

Attending all the relevant courses that Destination Bristol offer has helped us to win the Awards. They have given us a greater understanding of customer expectations and we have been able, as a result, to set our own high standards. The Awards have also given us a lot of credibility.

A large proportion of our guests are coming through the VisitBristol web site which works very well and produces a good standard of guest. The on line booking service works really well, with people being able to book months in advance on line with very little effort from me. People using the Visit Bristol web site know they are dealing with quality establishments that have been reliably graded.

We have gone from an "unknown" Bed and Breakfast somewhere in Pucklechurch to an "Award Winning Bed and Breakfast". The Destination Bristol team were responsible for giving us the confidence to go in for the Awards. Without their support and encouragement we wouldn't have entered the Awards and our business would possibly tell a different story now.

The whole of the Destination Bristol team have to be praised not only for their support and encouragement, but also how efficiently and quickly they deal with queries, changes to text on our advertisement.

Fern Cottage Bed & Breakfast