The Tourism Excellence Awards 2024-25 are coming!
We're incredibly excited to announce that The Tourism Excellence Awards 2024-25 - Greater Lincolnshire and Rutland will be opening for applications on Monday, July 22nd.
For the first time, Destination Lincolnshire will be taking ownership of the awards – which as you know, feed directly into the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence, a national competition. Our regional winners are automatically put forward for consideration by the national judges, giving us a chance to promote the region on the UK stage.
Another first for 2024-25 is that we’ll be delivering the awards in partnership with Discover Rutland, to align with Destination Lincolnshire’s recent Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP) accreditation, which was awarded to the DMO by VisitEngland in February 2024.
Last year’s event was the biggest awards celebration we’ve hosted in our history, and wonderfully resulted in one of our partners not only being selected as a Visit England finalist, but a Gold winner, as announced at the Awards in June this year. For the second year running, we've seen businesses make it through to the national finals which is why we're encouraging as many Lincolnshire and Rutland visitor economy champions to apply as possible!
Key Information:
Applications open on Monday (July 22nd) and close at 23:59pm on September 2nd. The awards are free to enter, no matter how many categories you wish to put yourself or your business forward for. You will however need to enter each category separately. There are 19 categories in total, 13 of which will feed through to the 2024 Visit England Tourism Excellence Awards final. Our regional-only categories have also had a refresh for this year, and we are thrilled to announce that they include:
- The Pride in Your Place Award - NEW
- Homegrown in Lincolnshire and Rutland Award – NEW
- The Going Places Award - NEW
- The Outstanding Contribution Award – NEW
- The Arts, Culture and Heritage Award
To offer you some expert support with your application, we will be working with seasoned pros from the tourism awards circuit to deliver a range of masterclass workshops once again. More dates will be available this year, which will soon be announced both on the website and across our social channels.
Find all the Key Dates and stay in control of your application.
Discover all the categories and how to enter.
If you have any questions or need any further support at this stage do not hesitate to drop the Awards team a message.
Jo - jo@destinationlincolnshire.co.uk
