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Black Country Honoured in Tourism Oscars
The tourism industry in the Black Country was honoured last night as local tourism heros picked up Gold and Silver in the Heart of England Excellence in Tourism Awards.
Graham Worton, Curator of Dudley Museum and Keeper of Geology for Dudley, walked away with Gold in the coveted Outstanding Customer Service Award, with Mike Mannix from The Crossing at St Paul’s in Walsall winning Silver in the same category. Meanwhile, Broadfield House Glass Museum in Kingswinford was voted Best Small Attraction in the regional awards, winning Gold after beating off stiff competition from the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre and Weston Park.
Graham and Mike, along with Roger Dodsworth and Kari Moody from Broadfield House Glass Museum, were all on hand at last night’s ceremony in Coventry Cathedral to receive their awards from Midlands Today presenter Kay Alexander.
Gold winners will now go forward to represent the Heart of England in the National Enjoy England Awards for Excellence organised by Visit Britain.
Graham said “I am absolutley amazed to have won the award, I just cannot believe it. I will do my very best to try and win the national award for Dudley and the Black Country”.
Pauline Jones, head of tourism for the region said, “this is just fabulous for the region as a whole, it really helps to put the Black Country on the map and shows that we can compete with the very best the Heart of England region has to offer”.
L to R: Tony Kempshaw, Mike Mannix & Juanita Sangha from The Crossing at St Paul’s
L to R: Pauline Jones, Black Country Tourism, Graham Worton, Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, Kari Moody & Roger Dodsworth from Broadfield House Glass Museum & Katherine Birch from Black Country Tourism.
Black Country Bostin Bunch Help To Launch The Kids Bostin T Shirt
Forget Paris, Milan and New York, the place for fashion action this half term was Wolverhampton’s Art Gallery where the region’s very own Bostin Bunch strutted their stuff and helped to launch a new line in kids wear.
When the Bostin Company decided to launch a new range of T shirts, just for kids, then it just had to be the Black Country’s very own Bostin Bunch that were called upon to help launch the jazzy gear.
The kids, chosen from thousands of youngsters by Black Country Tourism to become the real life Bostin Bunch and help promote the region, showed off the new range against a back drop of one of the latest contemporary sculptural exhibitions to open at the gallery following its £6.7 million extension.
The Bostin Bunch, Letisha Collins 11, and Joe & Catie Tidmarsh, 10 and 4 from Wolverhampton, Jon Bowen, 13 from Dudley, Neil Diaram, 10 from Walsall and Laura Hingley, 5 from Stourbridge gave visitors to the gallery a sneak preview as they posed in their Bostin new gear!
Katherine Birch, Marketing Manager at Black Country Tourism is pictured with The Bostin Bunch.
Join the Bostin Bunch Children’s Club
To raise awareness of the wide variety of children’s attractions in the Black Country, children around the UK are being invited by Black Country Tourism to join a new club – ‘THE BOSTIN BUNCH’ Children’s Club.
Any child under the age of 16 can become a member of the Bostin Bunch absolutely free.
For more information please call 0121 569 2364 or email Black Country Tourism for a Bostin Bunch pack.
