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 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:

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 Queens Hotel
  13. Quid Card
  14. Drakes Hotel  
  15. Harvey Marketing & Company  
  16. Hotel du Vin 
  17. Terraces Bar & Grill, Smugglers  
  18. Churchill Square
  19. Joogleberry Acts
  20. The Holiday Inn Brighton - Seafront
  21. Radisson Blu
  22. Premier Inn, Brighton City Centre
  23. Brighton Body Casting
  24. Sussex County Cricket Club
  25. Brighton Tuk Tuks
  26. Sussex Taxi Training Company
  27. Agua Dulce Restaurant
  28. Ghost Walk of the Lanes
  29. Pretty Clever Events
  30. SEE Brighton
  31. Hilton Brighton Metropole
  32. myhotel
  33. Lucky Voice
  34. Streamline Taxis Ltd
  35. Southern Railway
  36. First Capital Connect
  37. Marc Sinclair Productions
  38. Brighton Racecourse
  39. Rock & Roller
  40. NCP
  41. Brighton Ballroom
  42. ha ha Bar & Grill
  43. The Big Lemon
  44. The New Steine Hotel & Gullivers Hotel
  45. Last Footwear
  46. The Grand Brighton
  47. Moshi Moshi
  48. Brighton City Walks

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.

I have recruited all my staff through working links (and supported there work experience program) or through sending out job descriptions through the forum mail list. I have made use of the Train to Gain packages and the majority of my team have been on at least 2 training courses free of charge. If you are unsure, my advice is sign up give it a chance and see what benefits your business has as a result.

To hear what other businesses think please check the following link:  Tourism Forum Benefits Short Film.

The meeting dates for 2010 are:

10th March - hosted by Sussex County Cricket Club

10th June - hosted by Terraces Bar & Grill

7th September - hosted by Holiday Inn Brighton - Seafront

To visit the main Tourism Alliance website please go to www.thetourismalliance.co.uk

For more information, please contact Claire Mitchell at claire.mitchell@engagesolutions.org.uk .