Latest News (December 2025) - Visit West

Find out how we are developing the China inbound market and how Visit West members can get involved, including a webinar.

Bristol Sounds is closing its 2026 run with a bang. Royel Otis, the duo whose emotionally loaded, nostalgia-fuelled anthems have a massive global following, will headline the final night of the Harbourside series on Sunday 28 June 2026.

This December, something rather wonderful is taking to the water in Bristol’s historic Floating Harbour.

A major new exhibition titled “Cracking Exhibition Gromit: 50 Years of Aardman in Bristol” will launch at M Shed in summer 2026. 

BANK Bristol will welcome Whyte’s Restaurant to Totterdown on Thursday 11 December, for a one-night collision of live-fire cooking, big-flavour and no-rules plates.

Bristol Airport is about to start work on the next exciting phase of its £400 million transformation plan with new facilities and more shops and restaurants.