Corporate News

Steve Brown, Managing Director of Make It York, has announced today that he will be leaving the company at Christmas.

Tommy Banks, the Michelin Star winning head chef, whose restaurant The Black Swan at Oldstead was rated *the best in the world, has fronted a new initiative to encourage more rising stars into York and Yorkshire’s hospitality sector.  Celebrating everything from the ‘Star Behind the Bar’, to ‘Top Taxi Driver’, to ‘Most Promising Chef’, these new awards are being organised by Make It York, and showcase the talent and skills of individuals working in the city.

Crowned ‘Britain’s Most Festive City’ in a consumer online poll last year, as we finally say goodbye to summer, Visit York will this week launch its longest Christmas Festival programme yet. 

York Christmas Festival will run for 39 days (an extra two days) from 15 November to 23 December with a return of Thor’s Tipi, Yorkshire’s Winter Wonderland and so much more.

With a reputation as the most haunted city in Europe, but as spectral sightings are often unpredictable, Visit York and The York Dungeon have joined forces to create a tantalising twilight trail of glowing ghosts around the city, with phantasmagorically good prizes for those finding them all!