The beginning

Around 1971 a group of Guest House owners and Self Catering providers came together with the desire to promote the local amenities better for Visitors and so the St Davids Peninsula Tourist Association came into existence. With membership growing, it was decided to produce a Broad Sheet with useful information for the visitor.

Committee - 2010/11       Chair & IT administrator                               Doug Malein
                                             Minutes/Correspondence Secretary           Sarah Williams
                                             Membership Secretary & Web manager    Rona Liggitt
                                             Treasurer                                                        Irene Valentine
                                             PCNPA Visitor Centre & Oriel y Parc        Anona Gray
                                             City Council & Self-catering                        Sian Williams 
                                             Retail                                                             Chris Taylor
                                             B&Bs                                                             William Chant
                                                                                                                    Kila Millidine
                                             Cathedral                                                      Canon Dorrien Davies
                                             Mathry Council                                              Jill Morgan
                                             Camping & Self Catering                           Chris Evans

The committee meets  in January, March, May, July and September with the AGM in November and can be contacted through secretary@stdavidsinfo.org.uk                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Now, with some 75 members, the step was taken in late 2004 to develop a web site to complement the Broad Sheet.

Membership

Over the past year membership has increased from 64 to 75. Membership of the Association is open to any business, trade or service provider operating within the St Davids Peninsula. See becoming a member. All accommodation is subject to a Wales Tourist Board grading.

Membership entitles the member to a Line Entry in the Broadsheet brochure and an entry on the web site together with a link to their web site or home page if they have one. The print run was increased by 10,000 in 2010 to 90,000, which proved to be still short of demand. Consequently 100,000 copies have been printed for 2011. These Broadsheets are distributed professionally throughout Wales & the West and to Tourist Information Centres and motorway service stations etc. throughout the whole of mainland Britain.

For an additional £130 a Box Advert can be placed on the Broadsheet (space permitting).

Advertising: The Association pays for the distribution of the Broad Sheet brochures and also pays the polylope and postage costs of copies sent by the Tourist Information Centre at Oriel Y Parc, St Davids to web site and telephone enquirers.
The Association advertises in The Pembrokeshire Guide and sponsors a concert at the St Davids Cathedral Festival with an entry in the Festival Programme.

Web Site: The Association promotes the web site with a maximum daily advertising budget on Google. The web site further enjoys a high 'natural search' listing on Google and with many other search engines. For the month of July 2009, 7,719 unique visitors visited www.stdavidsinfo.org.uk  which had close to 1000 'page impressions' per day. This represents a year-on-year increase of some 30%.
* Businesses which apply to join the Association after the renewal cut off of 30th June each year, i.e. too late for inclusion in the following year's broadsheet, may become Temporary Web Members for that forthcoming year (November 1st, when the following year's broadsheet becomes available, to 30th June, at a cost of £10 per month = £80) but must become full members after that if they wish to remain in the Association and on the website.

Web Hosting: We are also pleased to be able to offer members, fast, quality and value-for-money web-hosting with e-mail facilities for your web site at a cost of just £10 per year. Currently 5 web sites are being hosted. This enables you to maintain your web space (if you wish) and to get web site statistics about visitors to your web site. These web site statistics greatly help you to market your business or service better.

The Work of the Association

Stand at the Really Wild Food Festival, St Davids (30 & 31 August 08)

Apart from producing the annual Broad Sheet advertising members businesses and running this web site, the Association supports many other events and activities such as: Annual Sand Church Competition at Whitesands Beach £25 prize per category Seasonal Photography Competition - quarterly winner's photo will be displayed on our website's home page. Sponsorship of the annual St Davids Cathedral Festival Support to the new Oriel y Parc - St Davids Landscape Gallery Advertising of the Pembrokeshire Coastal Bus Services Purchasing market stalls for the use by the local community Paid for the materials used by Association volunteers to construct a Float which was entered in the 2009 St Davids Carnival and won a prize. Takes a table space in the Really Wild Food and Countryside Festival. Advertising of events on the peninsula Financial Contributions to other causes and events such as the Christmas lights in St Davids and the construction costs, by local schools, of the Red Dragon heads that were used in the St David's Day Parade on 1 March 2009

 
Further Information and becoming a Member:

For further information about the St Davids Peninsula Tourist Association, or to apply to become a member please contact the Secretary by emailing

Further Information about the web site hosting package for £10 a year can be obtained from the Administrator by e-mailing

Information and feedback on this web site can be sent to the Webmaster

Disclaimer

The St Davids Peninsula Tourist Association has taken every care in the compilation of the information contained on its web pages but can accept no responsibility for inaccuracies, or for any consequences, however caused.

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