Impact Report 2025–26
BUSINESS INVESTMENT & TOURISM SERVICES

Four services, one team, a stronger East Riding.

Business Investment & Tourism Services helps businesses start and grow, attracts investment and jobs into the area, provides the space to grow into, and promotes the region to visitors. This is the impact — across all four services.

Taking care of business and supporting business growth in the East Riding of Yorkshire

The offer

Four services, one team

Business Investment & Tourism Services brings together four complementary strands of the Council's economic-development work — helping businesses start and grow, attracting investment and jobs into the area, providing the space they grow into, and promoting the region to visitors.

Business support in the East Riding Business Support

Helping businesses start & grow

Impartial advice, grants and hands-on support for founders and established firms across the East Riding.

See the impact → Inward investment in the East Riding Inward Investment

Investment & jobs for the area

Attracting and landing major investment, and the jobs that come with it, in the East Riding.

See the impact → The East Riding Business Centres team Business Centres

The space to grow into

Managed workspace, offices and units that give local businesses room to establish and expand.

See the impact → The Visit East Yorkshire team Visit East Yorkshire

Promoting the visitor economy

The region's tourism partnership, growing visitor numbers and spend and supporting tourism businesses.

See the impact →
The bigger picture

What it means for the region

Taken together, the four services speak directly to the priorities the Council itself is judged on — a stronger local economy, good jobs, thriving market towns and high streets, opportunities for young people, and the move to net zero. Each strand contributes; together they are the Council's economic-development offer in action.