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Any business involved in the Brighton and Hove Tourism Industry and passionate about making the best of their business is now invited to join the NEW Tourism Alliance.

The Tourism Alliance is a fee paying member's only network which provides the following services to businesses in the tourism industry:

1. A 'Collective Voice' to represent the Industry for lobbying purposes
2. Networking meetings with like minded businesses
3. The latest information in plain English about relevant business support services and training
4. Employment support
5. Free Recruitment Service
6. Peer to Peer Skills Training
7. Peer to Peer Mentoring
8. Facilitation of joint initiatives such as marketing, customer packages
9. A safe space to discuss or seek advice about sensitive business related issues

In between meeting times members are kept up to date and in touch using an online forum; you can access using tourismforum@engagesolutions.org.uk

Members sign both a confidentiality agreement and a code of conduct charter to ensure good business practices.  Membership fees are:

• Sole Trader £50 per annum
• Businesses with 1 - 10 employees £100 per annum
• Businesses with 10 - 50 employees £150 per annum
• Businesses with 50+ employees £250 per annum

The Following businesses have signed up to the Tourism Alliance so far:

1. SEA LIFE Brighton 
2. Brighton Visitor Magazine
3. Unique to Brighton 
4. Paskins Hotel
5. Jurys Inns
6. Brighton Pier
7. Brighton Dive Centre
8. Natural PR  
9. The Oriental
10. Terre a Terre       
11. Ramada Brighton
12. The Royal Albion                
13. The Queens Hotel
14. SASSCO (Brighton) Ltd 
15. Quid Card
16. Drakes Hotel  
17. Harvey Marketing & Company  
18. Hotel du Vin 
19. Terraces Bar & Grill, Smugglers  
20. Churchill Square
21. Joogleberry Acts
22. The Holiday Inn Brighton - Seafront
23. Radisson Blu
24. Premier Inn, Brighton City Centre
25. Brighton Body Casting
26. Sussex County Cricket Club
27. Brighton Tuk Tuks
28. Sussex Taxi Training Company
29. Hotel Nineteen
30. Agua Dulce Restaurant
31. Ghost Walk of the Lanes
32. Pretty Clever Events
33. SEE Brighton
34. Hilton Brighton Metropole
35. myhotel
36. Lucky Voice
37. Streamline Taxis Ltd
38. Southern Railway
39. First Capital Connect
40. Marc Sinclair Productions
41. Brighton Racecourse
42. Rock & Roller
43. NCP
44. Brighton Ballroom
45. The Big Lemon Bus & Coach Hire

Comments from a member:  Max Leviston (The Sealife Centre)  

I was new to Brighton and my position in the Sea Life Centre in August 2008, so had a lot to contend with learning a new position, a new business, a new city.  When Claire from engage solutions came knocking on my door I signed up, but in all honesty I did not have high hopes that this forum would deliver what it said on the tin.
A few months went by and because I was putting nothing in I was not getting much out.  I then went to one of the quarterly meetings and began to meet other like minded business heads and realized the power of networking through this forum. I not only developed new friends but also important business contacts always willing to sound ideas through and discuss Brighton Tourism moving forward.