Welcome...
to the British Resorts & Destinations 2008 Website

Here you will find information on many of the UK's tourist destinations. Click on the map to view destinations by Tourist Board Region. To go straight to any particular destination, use the menu at the top of the page.

This website is offered as a membership benefit to our 58 local authority, 5 tourist board and 13 commercial members. The site is designed as a one stop shop giving the public, national press, trade partners, students and other interested parties information on, and links to, a wealth of information regarding many of the UK's most popular built and rural inland and coastal destinations.

The British Resorts & Destinations Association originally formed in 1921, has developed from a traditional local government association, to become a national body that operates as a trade association representing the wider interest of local authority sponsored tourism. As a consequence the membership now includes local government authorities of all types and sizes from across much of the UK, regional and local tourist boards and commercial organisations, who are either suppliers of services to the public or to the industry itself. Despite the popular misconception associated with the organisation's name, it is not exclusively in the business of promoting the interests of major built coastal resorts. While the majority of the member authorities are coastal, many are major rural destinations. We also have some significant inland, rural and built destinations in membership. The common link between all members being an engrained tradition of hosting visitors and therefore a tendency towards a much higher local social and economic dependency on a healthy tourism industry.