Visitor destinations and attractions across Kent and Medway are being invited to sign up for My Kent Big Weekend 2012.
 

My Kent Big Weekend 2012, the county’s annual celebration of its tourism industry and the wide range of venues that entertain more than 56.6 million visitors every year is a showcase of the best of the county’s tourism, leisure and hospitality businesses and will be held on March 17 and 18.

Plans are already in hand to ensure My Kent Big Weekend 2012 is the biggest and best yet with organisers at Visit Kent, working with their colleagues in the Nord Pas de Calais and Eurolines and Eurotunnel to enable a number of Kent residents to enjoy a day at attractions in France and vice versa.

Destinations and event organisers taking part in the My Kent Big Weekend are asked to offer a number of free tickets for local people to visit their venue over the weekend and placed on the My Kent Big Weekend website for people to request free tickets. Once the website closes, tickets are allocated on a ballot system.

Sandra Matthews-Marsh, Chief Executive at Visit Kent said: “This year we took the event over two days and received more than 51,000 applications for tickets during the month that the website was open.

"We were able to give away 18,000 free tickets"

To find out more about including your venue or destination in My Kent Big Weekend 2012 go to www.visitkentbusiness.co.uk , call Kelly Sharp, at Visit Kent, tel: 01227 812912 or email: Kelly.sharp@visitkent.co.uk [4] . The deadline for registration is December 31.

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