Journalists in Britain to cover the Olympics were given a day out to remember as they were taken on a Jane Austen-inspired tour of Bath. With time to spare before the recent opening ceremony, half a dozen reporters from China, South Africa and India, together with the cream of British media, were stunned by...
Local charities offered the chance to raise their profile and fundraise for free at this year’s Christmas markets have only a few days left to apply for a prestigious, and free, chalet-style pitch. Every year, one of the Christmas Market’s cosy wooden stalls is offered to a different Bath and North East Somerset charity...
Bath Spa University fashion graduate Chloe Jones took on top fashion students from across the country to walk away with two top prizes worth £21,000 at this year’s national Graduate Fashion Week awards in London. Chloe won both the coveted Gold Award, given by sponsors George and worth £20,000, for the best student...
The Bath Priory Hotel has collected the Gold Award for the Best Small Hotel of the Year at this week’s prestigious Visit England Awards for Excellence. The win was another accolade for the luxury boutique hotel which, earlier this year, come first in the Best Small Hotel and Taste of the West categories in...
International sports links and excellent training facilities are bringing more than a dozen nations to Bath for pre-Olympic training. But, it looks like the positive effects on the city are likely to be felt long after 2012. As teams commit to train here, international TV crews are coming too. That means publicity for Bath,...
Want to be ‘at one’ with nature? Bath Business News Travel Editor ANNE GORRINGE discovers what else there is to get up to in the mountains above St Anton once the ski season comes to a close… How can letting dozens of ants crawl up your arm keep a cold a bay? Gamely, I followed instructions, patting...
The pretty marina at La Grande Motte Want to work out those abs but hate the gym? Travel Editor ANNE GORRINGE jumps on board for the latest water sport…. Concentrating all my efforts on keeping my balance as I paddle my way across the ripples of an azure sea the peace and calm...
Some of the biggest names in fashion are revealing their secrets at a series of innovative events in Bath this week. The chair of Bath in Fashion said the week’s events had really given the city’s profile a major boost. “It’s really put Bath on the map and people perceive it as a stylish...
Bath is never far from the top of many discerning travellers’ must-visit list of destinations. Yet attracting these people in the first place, then getting them to boost tourist revenue by spending more, are major challenges in the current economic climate. Who better to ask for advice than veteran travel writer Simon Calder. Bath...
Top travel writer Simon Calder has urged Bath tourist businesses to respond quickly to negative comments travellers made on key sites, such as Trip Advisor. These should be used as an opportunity to improve services he said in an entertaining speech to key tourism industry figures in the city on Tuesday which also tackled...
