Welcome to Yorkshire backs local festivals

4:58pm Tuesday 19th February 2013 in News

The organisation that helped bring the Tour de France to Yorkshire has pledged to make this year a bumper year for the county’s large number of festivals.

Tourism group Welcome to Yorkshire has just announced it will support 100 festivals in 2013, allowing them to boost their profile, helping with PR and offering business support.

Local events that will benefit include Ilkley Literature Festival, this weekend’s Bradford Beer Festival, Saltaire Festival, Bradford Film Festival and Saltaire Arts Trail.

Yorkshire’s festivals are worth around £500m to the county’s economy, and account for 10 per cent of total visits.

Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: “Festivals are big business to the county and we are working hard to help them flourish and grow.

“We are supporting a wide range of festivals across Yorkshire from the Three Peaks Race to the Leeds Waterfront Festival and the Grassington Festival to the Ilkley literature Festival.”

A spokesman for the group said although they would like to support every festival in Yorkshire, they only had the resources to support the chosen 100.

Comments(1)

johnhem says...
9:09pm Tue 19 Feb 13

are we supposed to be impressed here? remind me, which part of the bradford city centre does the tour de france come through? oh yeah, it does'nt. get some of this scheme in bradford city centre, not just the film and a beer festival. £500m of yorkshire festivals income could provide a lovely slice for bradford, but only if they get the **** things into bradford city centre.
oh and another benefit would be extra visitors to the city park and footfall in the shops....... oh dear, they knocked them down.

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