Visit East Yorkshire · Impact Report 2025–26

Experience it all

Visit East Yorkshire is the region's destination brand — drawing visitors to the chalk cliffs and seabird colonies of the coast, the rolling Yorkshire Wolds, and historic market towns like Beverley and Bridlington. It promotes the area and grows the visitor economy that so many local businesses depend on.

Natural, historical, active — the East Yorkshire experience.

The experience

Natural, historical, active

Visit East Yorkshire brings the region's tourism offer together under one evocative identity — an adaptive brand that flexes to whatever the visitor is looking for.

Natural

Natural East Yorkshire

Half a million seabirds at RSPB Bempton, the rolling Yorkshire Wolds, Blue Flag beaches and miles of heritage coastline.
Historical

Historical East Yorkshire

Beverley Minster, medieval market towns, grand stately homes and the maritime heritage of the coast.
Active

Active East Yorkshire

The 79-mile Yorkshire Wolds Way, plus cycling, riding and walking across open, uncrowded countryside.
The remit

Growing the visitor economy

Behind the brand sits a clear economic purpose: bringing more visitors and more spend into East Yorkshire, and helping the businesses that serve them to thrive.

Promote

The destination

Marketing East Yorkshire to visitors at home and abroad, across digital, print, PR and social channels.
Grow

Visitor spend & jobs

Driving more visits and more spend across the area, and the local jobs the visitor economy supports.
Support

Tourism businesses

Partnership, advice, insight and a shared image library — plus the Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards.
The events, by the numbers

Events that earn their keep

The events programme is where the visitor economy turns into pounds. Across 40+ events delivered and supported — with eight small grants to local organisers — the return is striking, and every headline figure is up on last year.

£58
generated for every £1 invested
£8.5m
raised by tourists through events
0
people attended our events
0
bed nights created across the area
Getting East Yorkshire seen

Reaching visitors, near and far

Behind the events sits a year-round marketing operation. On top of the figures below, 91 new businesses signed up as tourism partners, 1,004 new images were created to promote the area, and the team hosted five press and influencer visits and flew the flag at five major trade and country shows — from the Great Yorkshire Show to the Fiets en Wandelbeurs in the Netherlands.

0
website views
0
social media followers
0
e-newsletter subscribers
0
visitor guides distributed UK-wide
Flagship events

Putting East Yorkshire on the map

From a Christmas festival that draws tens of thousands to vintage racing on the sands, the year's events brought visitors, spend and national attention to the region's towns — and a new J.R.R. Tolkien statue was unveiled to mark East Yorkshire's Tolkien Triangle.

Watch · Beverley Festival of Christmas
Welcome to the Beverley Festival of Christmas
56,000Beverley

Beverley Festival of Christmas

East Riding's flagship event returned after Storm Darragh and drew 56,000 visitors, with 41,000 users on its website and a 9.2K Visit Beverley following. Nominated for a National Outdoor Events Association award for the fourth year running.

ERYC flagship · NOEA-nominated four years running
Race The Waves vintage racing on Bridlington sands
£1.4mBridlington

Race The Waves

Vintage cars and motorcycles racing on the sands — now one of East Yorkshire's biggest and most anticipated events. Last year it drew 25,000 people and boosted the local economy by £1.4 million.

25,000 visitors
Bridlington Ice Trail fire-and-ice show
ThousandsBridlington

Bridlington Ice Trail

Back by popular demand for a second year, with spectacular fire-and-ice shows drawing thousands of visitors and boosting town-centre business in the run-up to Christmas.

Returned for a second year
A rally car at the East Riding Stages Rally start line in Beverley
15,000East Riding

East Riding Stages Rally

A motorsport fixture that drew 15,000 spectators to the area, bringing visitors and spend to local towns and businesses.

15,000 spectators
Kites flying at the Bridlington Kite Festival on the beach
18,000Bridlington

Bridlington Kite Festival

A colourful seaside spectacle drawing 18,000 visitors to the beach, with 23,000 website users and an 8K Facebook following.

23,000 website users
The European Open Beach Championship sea angling event on the East Yorkshire coast
1,200Bridlington

European Open Beach Championship

The Paul Roggeman European Open Beach Championship brought competitive sea angling to the East Yorkshire coast — 1,200 visitors and 1,800 website users, drawing a national and international fishing community.

An international field on the coast
Visit East Yorkshire

Explore Visit East Yorkshire

The region's consumer destination website — places to stay, things to do and events across the coast, the Wolds and the market towns.

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