Tourism Business

Tourism Development in NPT

This 3 year project aims to help tourism operators in the rural wards of Neath Port Talbot showcase the area to visitors and further develop NPT as an attractive and convenient base for a visit to South West Wales.

Working with tourism operators, the project will:

Map their business development needs to understand their aspirations
Undertake research to understand visitor requirements
Deliver ‘sense of place’ networking events
Establish networks to deliver destination management actions
Deliver a pilot project to create a digital visitor information portal

To date the project has:

Established destination management task and finish groups
Delivered a of ‘Sense of Place’ event to coincide with the 2017 Visit Wales ‘Year of Legends’
Commissioned visitor research, photography and videography

Karleigh Davies, Business Development Officer said “We have some fantastic destinations in Neath Port Talbot - Afan Forest Park, the waterfalls in the Vale of Neath and Margam Country Park to name just a few. Tourism in Wales is currently experiencing a period of significant growth and this project will assist tourism businesses in the rural wards to take advantage of this opportunity. I am looking forward to working closely with our tourism operators to deliver this exciting project”