Company Profile

Sidmouth is a prestigious seaside resort on Devon’s Jurassic coast and the second largest of seven towns in East Devon. We aim to become a regional leader and innovator in sustainable and responsible tourism, enabling our businesses to target new markets in response to changing market conditions and visitor preferences and to carefully steward our natural environment. This aligns with East Devon District Council’s tourism strategy, which seeks to make East Devon a leading destination where businesses thrive and grow through a commitment to Net Zero, accessibility and collaboration.

Sidmouth Town Council is the first tier of local government in this area and is the lead partner in a new collaborative tourism project grant funded by the Innovation and Resilience Fund (East Devon District Council) which aims to create a sub-regional identity for the area and improve the resilience of the tourism sector by nurturing and growing responsible tourism practices in the five towns and across East Devon, using Sidmouth as a pilot for sustainable tourism. Working with global leader, the Travel Foundation, we want to understand and engage businesses who are already pioneering best practice, extend best practice across the sector and market our town as a leading sustainable destination. Working with key stakeholders we will develop a destination level Carbon Action Plan which will provide a blueprint for sustainable tourism for the next 10 years and be capable of being rolled out to other towns and destinations within East Devon.