Sponsors & Partners

Dorset Food & Drink is a Community Interest Company (CIC) – a not for profit organisation and since 2013 has celebrated the county’s vibrant community of growers, producers and hospitality. It champions seasonal produce, sustainable practices, and the people behind every bite—from farmers and fishers to brewers and bakers.

Rooted in authenticity, the network connects local producers with customers who value quality, provenance, and hospitality. Whether it’s a curated hamper, a pop-up feast, or a heritage-inspired event, it brings Dorset’s seasonal flavours to life.  Supporting Dorset Food and Drink means sharing pride in the landscapes, the stories, and the shared table that make this region so distinctive.

Always local. Always heartfelt. Always Dorset.

H&W is delighted to sponsor the Dorset Tourism Awards.  Dorset is blessed with natural beauty – rolling hills, stunning coastline and immaculate beaches, vibrant urban areas and picturesque market towns and villages.  But it is the visitor attractions, pubs, hotels, B&Bs and restaurants that keep visitors coming back time and time again.  We should celebrate the very best of these, particularly in these challenging times….and what better way than with a pint or two of Badger Ale or Outland Craft beer?

Tozers are the award-winning leading lawyers when it comes to park law. As legal advisers to the British Holiday and Home Parks Association for over 65 years, we are at the cutting edge of legal developments affecting the parks industry. Our dedicated and experienced team advise parks businesses small and large, throughout England and Wales, on a wide range of issues.

We offer a comprehensive legal service for both our commercial and private clients, always staying one step ahead and seeking new perspectives, which is why we are one of the top-rated law firms.

We put our clients first. We’re Tozers, thoughtful legal partners for a changing world.

Working with hospitality, tourism and leisure businesses, QiT provides the expertise and advice needed to quantify and improve business performance. From mystery shopping to quality assessment, sustainability reviews and market advice, our industry experts are available to share advice and guidance, benchmark businesses, and identify opportunities for improvement. We pride ourselves on looking at a business from the outside-in, looking at it from a customer perspective, from a community perspective, from an employee perspective and from a competitive perspective. Helping businesses become the best they can be. We are not inspectors, we are not auditors, we are your businesses support team and your cheerleaders rolled into one.

Key Digital is a Dorchester, Dorset based digital agency specialising in technology-led growth for tourism and complex service businesses – designing websites, integrations, and platforms that solve operational problems and drive measurable revenue.  We solve business problems using technology — not just marketing.

Key Digital specialises in solving complex digital problems using technology — for tourism, hospitality, and service-based businesses with integrated systems, booking journeys, and operational challenges.

Examples –

• Websites built around real user journeys;
• System integrations for booking systems, CRMs, APIs, and data feeds;
• Apps, portals, dashboards, kiosks, and digital touchpoints
• AI & intelligent automation – Chat, FAQs, personalisation, reporting, and search visibility

At Booking.com, we combine 20+ years of industry experience with continuous data-backed insights to provide you with the services, products and support you need to grow your business. That’s why we offer the tools, visibility and round-the-clock support you might not get on your own.

We’re proud to be the world’s number one accommodation site for bookings. More than 1.5 million room nights are booked on Booking.com every single day. With such a large customer base, we can help you reach a vast audience of potential guests, from every corner of the globe – meaning you have access to entire new markets, all in one place

Founded in 1992 as Openwide International, the company evolved into Adventure Attractions in March 2024. It operates as a developer, operator and consultant across adventure sports, heritage and visitor attractions, hospitality venues, theatres and live productions. Its portfolio includes restaurants, bars, retail, coffee shops, catering outlets and events. Clients span local and national government, private and public sector organisations, cruise lines, tour operators, airlines and resorts.

In-house brands include RockReef, PierZip and Coffee Reef. Current operations include the Castle Pantry at Highcliffe Castle, Bournemouth Pier and Cromer Pier, alongside producing the world’s only full-season end-of-pier variety show

Established in 1958, and having celebrated 60 successful years in the industry in 2018, Goadsby has grown to become an influential property practice covering both residential and commercial disciplines.

The group comprises a branch network of 24 offices across the South of England with specialist commercial centres in Bournemouth, Southampton and Winchester.  Expert teams cover all aspects of residential and commercial business including sales, lettings, new homes, land, mortgage services, hotels and leisure, business space, retail, investment consultancy, survey & valuation, building consultancy, town planning, property management, CAD services, corporate consultancy and public sector appointments.

The Hotels and Leisure division of Goadsby is one of the longest established nationally. A wide spread of clients range from the dedicated B&B owner to corporate hotel groups. Restaurants, public houses, holiday flat blocks, camping and touring parks, catteries and kennels also fall within the remit of Ian Palmer and Mark Nurse, between them able to call upon a combined 57 years of practise.

Currently ranked in the top 25 of all composite property service providers in the UK, the commercial arm is acknowledged as a major practice in the Central South having won multiple awards throughout the last ten years based on the volume of business transacted.

Tourism is the lifeblood of the South Coast and Goadsby is committed to maintaining an active support role within an industry justifiably recognised as a principal contributor to the local economy.

Visit Dorset is the Destination Management Organisation for Dorset, helping to support and grow Dorset’s visitor economy. Visit Dorset is funded by Dorset Council and is supported by over 500 paying business members.

Our key aims are to promote Dorset as a world class destination to attract visitors year round and support the local economy and tourism industry through marketing, PR and strategic partnerships. The team manage the visit-dorset.com website which is recognised as Dorset’s official visitor website and receives 2 million visits a year. Visit Dorset has a very active social media presence across all platforms and works closely with VisitEngland as well as national and international press and media to ensure that Dorset competes as a leading UK tourism destination.

Resort Dorset – The perfect pick-me-up.  

Information – it’s what we all need when visiting an unfamiliar area – and Resort has been providing just that for over thirty years!  Resort Dorset offers high profile, specialised tourism marketing in Dorset, covering print, online and we’re very social too.

The Resort magazine has a tried and tested distribution system, from Easter – September, covering the whole season and reaching visitors across the county. Why do visitors pick it up? It’s a high-quality publication offering extremely useful information on their holiday destination, and it’s free. The question should be – why wouldn’t they pick it up?

The full marketing mix reaches millions of readers, followers and online users. Independently run, you are in reliable hands with Resort Dorset.

At Profitroom, we believe great hospitality deserves great technology. That’s why we’ve built a powerful, all-in-one platform that helps hotels, hotel groups and resorts take full control of their bookings, marketing, and guest experience in one place.

Our platform combines a high-converting booking engine, marketing automation, channel management, and website technology to help hotels increase direct bookings, grow revenue, and simplify daily operations.

We believe technology should support people, not replace them. That’s why we give hotel teams the tools and confidence to focus on what they do best: creating exceptional guest experiences.