‘Coach Stop Durham’!

Colin Wilkes is the Managing Director of Durham Markets Company:

‘Local people and visitors to our famous city have been coming to the Indoor Market Hall for over 150 years – and they’ve always valued what’s been on offer.

‘Now we think that the Indoor Market is ideally placed to make the most of the great variety of visitors coming into or passing through the North East region,’ explains Colin.

‘Café Cenno, which overlooks the hustle and bustle of the Market Hall, has been considerably extended and refurbished by proprietor Ian Kennedy and can now comfortably accommodate coach parties – and this, along with the other services and facilities we can offer groups including a lift, easy coach drop off and pick up and of course a great variety of independent stalls and traders, all help to make Durham Indoor Market a superbly positioned and obvious choice for groups as part of any visit to Durham City’.

Working closely with Corbridge based tourism specialists Steve Reed Tourism, the Indoor Market is combining forces with a number of other attractions in the Durham City area in a concerted drive to bring in group travellers. The North East region, led by One Northeast, has proven to be a magnet for group travellers over recent years.

John Holmes at Regional Development Agency One NorthEast said:

‘Durham Markets are making every effort to attract new and additional visitors to the region by offering a well placed and convenient stop for groups – a facility that is well regarded by tour planners around the country and should serve to bring new spend for our tourism economy too,’ says John.

Durham Markets Company is also responsible for the organisation of a variety of other markets in and around Durham including the Saturday outdoor retail market, the monthly Farmers markets and the very popular Continental Markets.

For further information contact Colin Wilkes on 0777 557 2335 or Steve Reed on 0786 7788 754