A new immersive experience is set to make its UK debut this summer in York city centre following successful runs in Brussels and Naples.  Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience will open in York St Mary’s on Castlegate on 5 July, enabling visitors to step inside the paintings, world and mind of the 19^th century impressionist painter.

Sixteen of York’s top tourism businesses celebrated a win in the Visit York annual Tourism Awards last night (Thursday 20 June). Supported by headline sponsor LNER, a prestigious Black Tie awards ceremony was held in the Station Hall of the National Railway Museum, compered by breakfast show hosts Ben Fry from Minster FM.

In an exciting new venture, the team behind Lamplighter’s unanimously acclaimed The Life and Times of Fanny Hill, join the OSC to co-produce April de Angelis’ striking stage adaptation of Emily Bronte’s spell-binding Wuthering Heights.

This month the UK Choir Festival comes to York! On Saturday 25^th and Sunday 26^th May 250 choristers will descend on St Olave’s School to participate in the event with learning and great music making at its heart.

Plans for marketing and developing York will be outlined today (Wednesday 15 May) at the annual Make It York stakeholder meeting, to be held at the Principal Hotel.  300 business leaders from across the digital, railtech, bioscience, creative, food and drink and tourism sectors will meet to network and to hear from Sean Bullick, Make It York’s new Managing Director.

Issue date: Thursday 9 May Issued by: Visit York York woos visitors from London Promotions for York have appeared across the London Underground today, as part of Visit York’s latest tourism drive t..

Casting has been announced for the 2019 York company of SHAKESPEARE’S ROSE THEATRE, the award-winning pop-up Shakespearean Theatre, which makes a triumphant return to the foot of Clifford’s Tower in York this summer with new productions of Hamlet, Henry V, The Tempest and Twelfth Night. The plays have been selected from across the genres, offering something for everyone, and will be performed in repertory by two companies of actors.

The Yorkshire Arboretum, located near Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, has raised funds to build the UK’s first purpose-built facility to expand public awareness about the threats to our trees posed by an increasing number of pests and diseases, and the need to keep our trees as healthy as possible. Funding for the project has come from the Peter Sowerby Foundation, the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund and £286,000 of the Government’s Local Growth Fund, secured by the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) LEP. Construction is expected to begin in July this year.

YORKSHIRE based farm made ice cream manufactures, Yorvale celebrate 30 years in business this Spring. From humble beginnings on their small rented farm the business has grown beyond their expectations. The farm was purchased in 1998 and it was at this time the expansion into purpose-built manufacturing facilities on the farm started.