Membership

Become a Destination Bristol member today and benefit

What is membership?

Destination Bristol can offer opportunities to promote your business through our membership programme. Businesses receive a series of benefits and services designed to help them better reach their visitor audience, with specially designed marketing and business engagement programmes to assist in maximising opportunities within the business and leisure tourism industry.

As well as providing businesses with these specialist marketing opportunities, each member is also directly investing in the work undertaken by Destination Bristol to promote Bristol and the surrounding areas as one of the primary visitor destinations in the UK and Europe. This investment allows us to buy into campaigns and events where we can promote Bristol to journalists, the media, the travel trade, business agents and bloggers to name a few. With the visitor economy to Bristol and South Gloucestershire currently worth nearly £1.29bn* to the local economy, we hope you are justifiably proud of your investment.

Why membership?

We aim to get to know the businesses we work with to enable us to better promote them. By knowing the objectives, aims and markets of a particular business, we can better match them with available marketing opportunities as well as other potential partners.

“Joining Destination Bristol has opened up a good repertoire of marketing opportunities for my business giving us direct access to millions of potential guests. It’s a valuable tool for all businesses in Bristol trying to tap into the tourism sector. I would highly recommend working with the team at DB.” Carla Brooks Director Brooks Hotels Ltd

As well as directly supporting tourism in the Bristol city region, we are forming relationships with external suppliers to help businesses in the city save money on their overheads. We will detail these here as soon as they are confirmed so do keep checking. 

There are 4 different levels of membership available depending on your objectives and size of your business.

Bronze Membership

This is the basic level of membership for small businesses  

Silver Membership

This is the standard level of membership for those interested in general leisure marketing opportunities. 

Gold Members

This is aimed at businesses wanted to focus on both the leisure and business tourism market, especially developing conference and meeting business.

Partners

The premium level of membership aimed at those businesses who want to significantly support and help develop the tourism industry and receives a special level of business support and inclusive marketing opportunities.

Membership Categories

Membership is broken down into a range of categories. Click on the relevant category below to see a detailed explanation of what our membership programme includes and the costs for your business:

• Membership for accommodation
• Membership for visitor and cultural attractions
• Membership for conference
• Membership for sport and leisure activities
• Membership for food and drink
• Membership for independent retail stores and centres
• Membership for spas and wellbeing centres
• Membership for nightlife and entertainment
• Membership for travel and tours
• Membership for language schools

For all membership enquiries please contact Faye Batchelor on 0117 946 2201 or faye.batchelor@destinationbristol.co.uk.

*2015 Economic Impact Survey