Harrogate Borough Council

 

 

HIC's Tourism team took an even bigger stand this year at the 150th Great Yorkshire Show, the regions largest countryside event, which was visited by HM The Queen, and The Duke of Edinburgh.

 

Over the three day event earlier in July, over 126,000 visited the Show with gate figures and competitive entries amongst the highest in the event's history.

 

The Tourism team handed out gift bags filled with novelties, the latest entertainments What's On Guide, the tourism Great Days Out Guide and the Area Tourism Partnership brochure. Full of amazing facts about the Yorkshire Dales and Harrogate,  the brochure lists accommodation providers from camp sites to 4-star hotels. Over 4,000 brochures were distributed to the wide-ranging visitor profile.

 

Visitors to the stand were invited to enter a prize draw to win tickets to the December Jake & Elwood concert, the winning entry going to a Wakefield resident.

 

HIC will also be attending the Tockwith Show in August, and the Nidderdale Show and Masham Sheep Fair in September.