Advertise Non-accommodation

…It costs just £150 per year to be a member

The VisitBude website:

• 800 to 4,500 hits every day
• Comprehensive Visit, Stay, Eat & Play sections
• Comprehensive What’s on? and events calendar

…full listing on the website is included in the membership fee

The Bude Tourist Information Centre (TIC)

• The largest TIC in Cornwall
• Over 200,000 visitors every year plus contact with thousands of visitors/potential visitors via phone, email and online chat
• Fully staffed 360 days of the year
• Open every day, 10am-5pm (4pm on Sunday) October to June.
• Open until 6pm every day during July, August and early September.
• Member business tourist attraction leaflets / menu on prominent display for visitors to take
• Member business folders and displays for visitors to browse
• Large gift shop and cafe

…promotion in the TIC is included in the membership fee

A series of official Bude Guides

• 20,000 + copies of our guides are printed (excluding accommodation guides)
  
• …Visit:  Family Fun
• …Visit:  Out & About
• …Play:  One the Water
• …Play:  On the Land
• …Eat
• …Visitors Map:  Bude
• The only Bude guides available to visitors in Bude and those planning their visit to Bude
• Distributed from the TIC, a selection of TICs across Devon and Cornwall and our member hotel, cottage and campsites
• Posted for free to potential visitors

…a directory listing in the guide is included in the membership fee

Social Media

• We own the Bude, Summerelaze Beach and Crooklets Beach Facebook pages
• Instagram
• Twitter

…promotion on our Social Media accounts is included in the membership fee
for silver and gold members

Plus many more benefits and opportunities. 

Standard Membership:  £150

• Member Listing on VisitBude website – 5 images, comprehensive description, listing in all applicable sections and categories within Visit, Eat and Play.
• Bude TIC Booking Service and Helpline
• Designated leaflet slot to display tourist leaflets and menus etc in TIC
• A4 Poster displayed in TIC
• Use of WeareBude Member logo
• Promotion of Special Offers and Events
• Access to subsidised training courses
• Directory listing in the appropriate 2019 official Bude Guide
• Option to place adverts in the numerous guides we publish throughout the year
• Online listing includes Member contact details and link to Member website

Silver Membership:  £350

All standard membership benefits, plus

• Social media interaction and unique posts
• Promotion in WeAreBude eNewsletter
• Access to PR opportunities
• Subsidised advertising rates to include your adverts in the series of printed publications we produce every year.

Gold Membership:  £450

All standard and silver membership benefits, plus

• Promotion in WeAreBude eNewsletter
• Access to PR opportunities
• Feature blogs on VisitBude website (just give us the information/text/images and will publish)
• Featured Offers / Events on VisitBude website home page
• Use of Gold member logo
• Significantly reduced priced advertising

Additional Advertising:  An additional directory listing in other official Bude Guide publications

In addition to your free directory listing in a guide, you may like to have a directory listing in one of our other publications such as Visitors Map:  Bude, Eat, Play:  On the Water and Play:  On the Land.

• Standard Member: £75
• Silver Member:  £50
• Gold Member:  £25

Additional Advertising:  In addition to your free directory listing, you may like to place your own branded advert in the relevant official Bude Guide

1/4 page advert

• Standard Member: £150
• Silver Member:  £100
• Gold Member:  £50

1/2 page advert

• Standard Member: £250
• Silver Member:  £200
• Gold Member: £100

Full page advert

• Standard Member: £450
• Silver Member: £300
• Gold Member: £200

Additional Advertising: An A Board which is placed outside the TIC building/in the Car Park

Single-sided A Board

• Standard Member: £500
• Silver Member:  £400
• Gold Member: £300

Double-sided A Board

• Standard Member: £750
• Silver Member: £600
• Gold Member: £450

Become a member and advertise with us…

…prices are exclusive of VAT

What we ask from you…

• Make the most of your membership!  Tell us about your events (add them to our website events calendar and send us a poster to display on the window and in the TIC), tell us about any special offers you may be running and anything else we should know about to tell our visitors.
• If you are a gold member, regularly send us images and text so we can post blog posts and shout about you on social media.
• Engage with us on social media.  Tag @VisitBude and use #WeAreBude
• Display the WeAreBude Member Logo on your website, and provide a reciprocal link to our website (we link to your website, its only fair)!