Best Tourism Experience
This category celebrates those businesses that provide an innovative customer experience within the tourism industry
Gold winner
Livingston Lodge Port Lymphe
Kent
Livingstone Lodge is the only authentic overnight safari in the UK, offering visitors a magical night under the stars, five-course African fine dining and safaris at dusk and the following morning.
Silver winner
Via Ferrata, Honister Slate Mine
Cumbria
Honister Slate Mine, in the centre of the Lake District, is England`s last surviving working slate mine and England`s very first via ferrata experience, using the original miners’ route to work.
Bronze winner
Severn Valley Railway
Worcestershire
Visitors can chug along on a steam-hauled passenger train between Kidderminster, Bewdley and Bridgnorth – a journey of about 16 miles along the Severn Valley – and take part in special vintage-themed weekends.
Highly Commended
Adventure Forest Go Ape
Cheshire
Go Ape lets you to go wild, flying through a forest on zip wires, cross wooden walkways and bridges, climb tree-top ladders and take on Tarzan Swings - all while safely attached to a harness of course!
Cannon Hall Farm
Yorkshire
Cannon Hall Farm makes for a good, old-fashioned family day out, complete with one of the biggest and best adventure play areas in the country and hundreds of animals to meet.