Visit Bristol Press Update - November 2021

Outlet: Condé Nast Traveller  
Reach: 2.32 million monthly visits 
Headline: The best things to do in London with kids this Christmas  
Date: 13 November  
Link: The best things to do in London with kids this Christmas | CN Traveller 
 Visit Bristol sent out a press release outlining all the festive events in the city and Condé Nast Traveller included Spiegeltent in their round-up. 

Outlet: Independent  
Reach: 88.4 million monthly visits 
Headline: The best new UK hotels that opened in November 
Date: 2 December  
Link: https://bit.ly/3rr2Ty8 
Visit Bristol has worked extensively with freelance hotel reviewer Ianthe Butt and her latest review of new hotels includes Artist Residence, which we informed her about early this year in our new accommodation press release. 

Outlet: Telegraph 
Reach: 45 million monthly visits 
Headline: Stella Loves 
Date: November  
Link: http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/754/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/754/pub/754/page/152/article/238155 
Following our Autumn press release with news on openings in Bristol, Japanese kitchen and bar KIBOU was included in this feature of Stella Loves in the Independent’s supplement.  

Outlet: Somerset Life 
Reach: 30,000 
Headline: North vs South 
Date: November  
Link: Page one of coverage and page two of coverage
Susie Bowers from the Visit West media team wrote a 4-page spread for Somerset Life on the different parts of Bristol, focusing on north and south of the river Avon. The feature includes Clifton Suspension Bridge and visitor centre, Avon Gorge by Hotel du Vin, Your Apartment, Beech House, Mollie’s Motel and Diner, Thornbury Castle Hotel, Clifton Observatory, Bristol Zoo Gardens, The Wave, Wild Place Project, Aerospace Bristol, Berkeley Castle, Slimbridge Wetlands Centre, Bar 44, The Lido, Coppa Club, Kibou, Upfest, The Bristol Hotel, Towed Town Camping, Tyntesfield National Trust, Wapping Wharf, SS Great Britain, Spike Island, Arnos Vale Victorian cemetery, Bristol Blue Glass factory, Martin Parr Foundation, Royal Photographic Society, Yuup, Bristol Hoppers, Woky Ko, Cargo Cantina, Gambas, Tare, Box E, Bocabar, Pony Bistro, and Sonny Stores. 

Outlet: UKInbound 
Reach: Not known 
Headline: Bristol in 2022 
Date: November  
Link: UKinound press pack
Visit Bristol’s What’s New 2022 press release was included at the start of the UKInbound press pack. 

Outlet: Bristol 24/7, Bristol Post and BBC Radio Bristol 
Reach: 4 million combined 
Headline: Various 
Date: 23 November 
Link: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristol-tourism-bosses-back-zoos-plans-for-clifton-site/ 

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-zoo-relocation-backed-tourism-6244799  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b12msg  
(BBC Radio Bristol interview with Visit West’s Director of Tourism Kathryn Davis on 23/11/21 at 1:20 into the show) 
Following an open letter from leading tourism businesses backing Bristol Zoo’s plans to open a new Bristol Zoo at Wild Place Project site and tehri plans for selling the site for development, Bristol 24/7. Bristol Post and BBC Radio Bristol all covered the story and featured Bristol Zoo Gardens, SS Great Britain, YTL Arena and Visit West. 

Outlet: The Travel Locker 
Reach: Not known 
Headline: Shipshape Bristol Fashion 
Date: November 
Link: https://thetravellocker.com/2021/11/24/shipshape-bristol-fashion/  
After a press trip to Bristol which Visit Bristol helped facilitate, blogger James wrote a piece on the city for his outlet, The Travel Locker and included SS Great Britain, Where the Wall, M Shed, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Bristol Cathedral.

Outlet: Wales Online 
Reach: 19 million monthly visits 
Headline: Visit beautiful Bristol this Christmas 
Date: 27 November 
Link: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/special-features/visit-beautiful-bristol-this-christmas-22270861 
As part of a campaign partnership with GWR, Wales Online posted this advertorial which features, The Christmas Adventures trail by City Centre BID, Light Up Bristol, Cribbs' Christmas with Paddington, SS Great Britain, Vintage Winter Wonderland, Enchanted Christmas at Westonbirt Arboretum, Longleat, Sudeley Castle’s Spectacle of Light, Bristol's Christmas Market, Bristol Beacon and the Made in Bristol Gift Fair, Bristol Old Vic Theatre , Bristol Hippodrome and GWR. 

Outlet: ITV 
Reach: 33 million monthly visits 
Headline: Christmas Markets open across the south west 
Date: 14 November 
Link: https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-11-14/the-christmas-markets-open-across-the-south-west-this-festive-season 
Following the Christmas press release sent out by Visit West, ITV featured Bristol Christmas Market in their round up of markets that opened in November in the south west region.  

Outlet: Bristol Post 
Reach: 3.16 million monthly visits 
Headline: All of the Christmas shows and pantomimes you can see in Bristol this year 
Date: 18 November 
Link: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/whats-on/christmas-shows-pantomimes-you-can-6191638  
Another pick-up from the Visit Bristol Christmas press release, Bristol Post featured Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol Old Vic and Wardrobe Theatre in an article about festive theatre shows this Christmas. 

Outlet: Our World For You 
Reach: 8,000 monthly visits, 18,000 social media following 
Headline: Our visit to SS Great Britain 
Date: 6 November 
Link: https://youtu.be/-cJ2neVhzE8 
Visit Bristol recently hosted a press trip with bloggers Our World For You who have created this video of their visit to SS Great Britain. 

Other coverage  

Unpaid carers: Bristol exhibition shines light on 'amazing' unpaid carers - BBC News 

A design lover's guide to Bristol (yahoo.com) 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/is-bristol-as-green-as-it-seems-20cgbnkqx  

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-christmas-appeal-2021-wildfowl-wetlands-trust-f232xsxtc  

https://www.culturecalling.com/uk/features/a-guide-to-christmas-shopping-in-bristol  

UK's Top 50 Boutique Hotels list revealed (bighospitality.co.uk) 

Bristol Life 

The Bristol Magazine  

High Life magazine  

Press releases  

As mentioned, the Christmas press release went to all local and national media, as well as freelancers, with lots of resulting coverage noted above and in the December media report (to follow).  

Press trips and enquiries (where coverage is forthcoming)  

Visit West hosted a few media visits in November which included a Visit Britain trip with a journalist from French national newspaper, Le Parisien, a blogger called Snita from Her Fav Food and a sustainability Instagrammer Sam Bentley.   

News and networking  

PR Connect - the annual event with Visit Britain’s international PRs – was held in November and Visit West was invited to take a webinar presentation to explain all the key upcoming events and new openings from the region. 

Visit Bristol also hosted the #MerryBristmas media event in November which was attended by over 35 local media and many members too. Coverage to follow.