One of Better Bankside's pledges is to promote the area, it's attractions and services to visitors, and ensure that Bankside is considered a mini-destination in its own right. And with 12 attractions, 8 accommodation providers, nearly 50 restaurants and over 45 pubs and bars in the immediate vicinity, whole days can be spent exploring and discovering the neighbourhood.

 

To ensure that tour operators, the press, tour guides, coach operators, group travel organisers and the many other facets of the travel trade are aware of what Bankside has to offer we attend travel trade shows under the banner of the New London Partnership (consisting of ourselves, London Bridge BID, Southwark Council and TourEast London).

 

Organised by Tourism South East and Group Travel Organiser Magazine, Excursions is the UK’s premier one-day group travel show and was held this year at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 12th January. Around 1050 representatives of group travel organisers attended the show with our stand proving hugely popular. As well as distributing Bankside area maps and guides and brochures and promotional material from our array of attractions, we also handed out our Bankside Travel Trade Manual which contains all you need to know about the area and what it has to offer and collected a list of 77 travel trade interested in attending a trip to Bankside to find out what the area has in store for 2008.

 

The Excursions team made sure that interested journalists were given our comprehensive Press Pack containing full listings of hotels, attractions and events for 2008.

 

The next trade show that the New London Partnership are attending is the Essex Tourism and Leisure Show in Brentwood on 21st February.