We are creative marketing and research specialists who enjoy supporting Tourism and Hospitality businesses in taking the next steps on their journey to success!
Barrington Associates
We are creative marketing and research specialists who enjoy supporting Tourism and Hospitality businesses in taking the next steps on their journey to success!
Barrington Associates specialises in marketing and business support for the tourism and hospitality industry.
The image shows us finishing our 697 mile Charity South West Coast Path Adventure for Blood Cancer UK and Ward Nine at Musgrove Park Hospital.
We love food and fun, travel, creative writing, research, good coffee, dogs, marketing, fundraising for great causes, learning new things, interesting jobs, watching seeds grow, quirky ideas, walking the South West coast path, telling a great story and inspirational people.
We launched our consultancy way back in 2005 and enjoyed incorporating our favourite things.
The result?
We have had the privilege of working with hundreds of small rural enterprises and large tourism organisations, helping them to succeed and be their best. Along the way we have had the added bonus of visiting amazing, award-winning tourism businesses and have been inspired by some of the best entrepreneurs in the hospitality sector.
Friendly, knowledgeable and well-connected, we have more than 35 years experience and a proven track record of helping businesses achieve their goals.
Barrington Associates is led by Nell Barrington who is a Fellow of the Tourism Management Institute, and in 2023 received a prestigious award for her “Outstanding contribution to Somerset Tourism”
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Top of the list, research and creative, practical marketing and business development, followed closely by PR, websites, public speaking, training, events, festivals, connecting like-minded tourism businesses, and more!
“Nell’s understanding of the tourism sector is second to none.”
Working with her when I was a Councillor at South Somerset was both enjoyable and very informative. She quite literally put “South Somerset” on the map. Nell’s understanding of the Tourism sector is second to none. Her marketing and PR experience makes her an ideal person to work with should you need to promote your business more widely by benefiting from a strong media presence.
Rupert Cox
Experienced rural business consultant and event host
Helped with attracting more visitors
Nell supported the development of some new US themed tourism itineraries as part of a campaign to attract more US visitors to the UK. Nell was a pleasure to work with, she is extremely professional, efficient and knowledgeable. Nell was able to turn the brief into a meaningful piece of work, she was brilliant at researching and connecting various aspects of product, history and travel to create some compelling propositions.
A true professional, whilst also very personable I would not hesitate to recommend Nell.
Emma Tatlow
CEO Active Lincolnshire
A treasure trove of useful tourism information
Working with Nell is always a pleasure. She is full of amazing knowledge and so positive in her approach to work. Nell helped us with our Middlewick application for Funding for a new Farm Shop. She produced all of the research and information needed to help us secure the funding. She is a treasure trove of useful information and I would thoroughly recommend her to anyone considering employing her services.
Jill
Owner at Middlewick, Glastonbury
Inspirational travel itineraries
Nell was great at delivering two key tourism coastal projects that Somerset Council commissioned with EDF funding. The projects ran over a two year period for the Council which involved creating and producing a number of inspiration itineraries/packages for a coastal intervention area running from Porlock Weir along the coast to Brean in Somerset. Nell was also commissioned to set up tourism and hospitality business networks/cluster groups along the route to support the development of the itineraries and packages, where the groups met face to face, and via regular social media groups to encourage engagement. Nell has also worked really well with the two other stands of work involved in this coastal project, which was with the Somerset & Exmoor Coast Festival, and the brand identity/publicity strands to produce promotional activity and support a coastal passport initiative. I have worked with Nell on many other projects over the years and would recommend her anytime.
Nicki Maclean
Former Senior Economic Development Officer (Visitor Economy & Coastal Communities Lead)
Extensive experience in the area of tourism
Nell Barrington’s professionalism and extensive experience in the area of tourism made her an obvious choice of consultant when we were rebranding and refocusing our tourism business. She helped to give us vital guidance which helped us to develop our successful future direction.
Marianne Williams
Formerly of East Lambrook Manor Gardens,
Solutions for the future in tourism
The whole world of tourism information is seeing huge changes in technology, consumer behaviour and economics. I was delighted to secure Nell Barrington’s services in helping to devise future solutions in this complex area. Her combination of creativity, reliability, flexibility and team-work made the project a huge success and laid innovative foundations for the future. I look forward to working with her again in the future.
Robin Barker
Managing Director, Services for Tourism
Nell’s expertise was invaluable
Nell proved a very efficient and wonderfully easy person to work with, she did all the work we agreed for a very reasonable price, her expertise was invaluable.