Winchester City Council has appointed destination consultancy Blue Sail to review the visitor economy in Winchester and develop a new Tourism Strategy for the Winchester district. This comes at an important time for the district with a recently announced Local Visitor Economy Partnership for Hampshire.

There are lots of changes taking place in how tourism is managed nationally and regionally and doing this work will help clarify how and where Winchester can align with and benefit from these changes.

The work will also help to determine the long term vision for tourism across the Winchester district and the objectives and actions that need to be taken to help it thrive.

Thank you to all our businesses so far who have contributed to the evidence base through 1-2-1 consultations, strategy workshops and business surveys, and helped share our visitor survey.

More information will be published here in due course.