Southport Tourism Business Network

The Southport Tourism Business Network (STBN) promotes Southport as a key visitor destination (eg. for shopping, conferences, golf, events, tourism and leisure). Funding by both public and private sector members including Sefton MBC Tourism department, the basic purpose of the STBN is to retain the existing level of visitors and attract new visitors to Southport. This has to be done to safeguard jobs and increase investment and employment opportunities.

The STBN works in a very structured way, with a number of working groups delivering tourism work. They report progress to the Executive Committee on a regular basis. All the main tourism commercial sectors of the town are represented on the group - hoteliers, attractions, conference venues,
restaurants, media and retailers.

 

The STBN meets as per below:

STBN ALLIANCE
Chairperson: Peter Hampson (Director, Southport based British Resorts Association)
No. of members: 111
Frequency of meetings: 3 times a year

The STBN also has 7 working Sub-groups (see below) which meet throughout the year. These sub-groups report to the STBN Alliance meeting above. Also discussed at this meeting are National and local tourism issues which affect
Southport.

As long as you are an STBN member, you can attend the meetings below to discuss specific Southport tourism issues relating to Conferences, Generic Marketing, Group Travel and Day Trips, Events, Golf and Retail.

 

1) STBN Conferences
Chairperson: Adam Urbanowski/Tony Corfield
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

2) STBN Generic Marketing
Chairperson: Steve Christian
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

3) STBN Group Travel and Day Trip
Chairperson: Steve Christian
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

4) STBN Events
Chairperson: Carolyn Lowry
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

5) STBN Golf
Chairperson: John Graham
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

6) STBN Retail
Chairperson: Sue Dare
Frequency of meetings: 3-4 times a year

7) STBN Restaurant Group
Chairperson: Dave Rimmer
Frequency of meetings: 6-7 times per year

 

Contacts details for the chairpersons of each sub-group can be found under the Contacts for Steering Groups section.