Become a Partner

RISING TOGETHER: Building a New Future for Bournemouth & Poole Tourism.

Become a Partner with the Official Destination and No.1 Websites for Bournemouth & Poole. Join us and raise your profile on Bournemouth.co.uk and PooleTourism.com.

There are a number of opportunities available to showcase your business whether you are an accommodation, attraction or transport provider, a restaurant, café, bar or retailer or local business services.

Choosing the right partnership for you

Accommodation

If you run a Hotel, Guest House, B&B, Caravan/Camp site or Self Catering holiday property you'll want to feature on our Accommodation pages.

Things to Do

If you're a local attraction or activity, you'll want to feature on our Things to do pages. This membership is also appropriate for event organisers and transport providers.

Food and Drink

List your food and drink establishment, from cafes and restaurants to catering businesses and local producers. A food and drink partnership with tourism could be perfect for your business.

Retail and Shopping

This partnership option allows individual retail suppliers to feature on our shopping pages.

Business Services

Local business services can sign up to partnership and will sit under our shopping page. These businesses include Finance and Insurance Companies, Education Providers,  Photographers, Food Suppliers and Design Agencies.

Advertise With Us

We also have a number of advertising opportunities available if you are just looking to take advantage of the great traffic our webpages receive.

Read more on our Advertise With Us page and remember if you’re a tourism partner you’ll receive discounted rates.

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Who we are and what we do

We are the Destination Marketing Organisation (DMO) for Bournemouth and Poole, working in partnership with hundreds of businesses across the resorts and wider Dorset. Our focus is to increase economic benefits of tourism across the destination and to promote our visitor experience across the UK and overseas.

We recognise the importance of the local tourism industry which generates over £1 billion* visitor spend across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and attracting an incredible 11.5 million* day and 1.65 million* staying visitors annually to our resorts.

*figures based on 2019 to reflect normal year

Promoting your Business - Partnership Benefits

We are responsible for delivering integrated marketing and communications campaigns to promote and position Bournemouth and Poole as world-class destinations. We cover all aspects of tourism marketing & social media, including digital marketing through our official tourism websites.

Be part of our 2025 plans

As part of our strategy, we will continue to develop and grow our platforms and channels, seek opportunities to leverage campaigns with Visit England and Visit Dorset. We will continue to craft engaging content, blogs, and itineraries to inspire visitors.

In 2024, we had over 3 million page views from 1.3 million visitors engaging across both of our tourism websites and content. Our websites offer a trustworthy and official tourism resource to showcase and promote your business to a highly engaged audience.

We are currently devising a plan for a new partnership scheme going forward which will be announced very soon, register your interest here to be part of the 2025 plans to support the Bournemouth & Poole visitor economy.

Industry Liaison

We work closely together with our members and partners via the Destination Management Board (DMB) and respective Marketing Advisory and Attractions groups.

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