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Staffordshire & Stoke Tourism Awards Categories
How to enter the 2025/26 Visit Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Awards
- Check your business is eligible by reading the Competition Terms & Conditions.
- Decide which category or categories you would like to enter from the list below.
- Click on the category name from the list below to download sample entry forms, to help you prepare your application offline.
- Join one of our FREE online applicant workshops on 2nd or 17th July
- Write a compelling entry, gather your evidence, weblinks, images etc. in readiness to complete the submission.
- Submit your best application by 8th September online using the Tourism Awards Application Portal.
All applications MUST be submitted online via the secure Openwater Tourism Awards Application Portal before the closing date of 1st September 2025. No other form of application will be accepted or considered.
Deadline for application submission is 11:59 pm on Monday 8th September 2025
Judging period: 1st September – 31st December 2025
Awards ceremony event TBC March 2026
2025/26 Tourism Awards competition categories
Click on a category name to download a sample form to help prepare your application offline
NATIONAL AWARDS (Gold winners go forward to the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence 2026)
Cross sector categories, open to all business types
- Accessible & Inclusive Tourism Award
- Regenerative Tourism Award
- International Tourism Award sponsored by University of Staffordshire
- New Tourism Business of the Year
- Unsung Hero Award
Business type specific categories
- Business Events Venue of the Year
- Small Serviced Accommodation of the Year
- Large Hotel of the Year
- Self-Catering Accommodation of the Year
- Camping, Glamping and Holiday Park of the Year
- Experience of the Year
- Small Visitor Attraction of the Year
- Large Visitor Attraction of the Year sponsored by University of Staffordshire
- Pub of the Year
- Taste of England Award: Casual Dining Award*
- Taste of England Award: Restaurant of the Year*
- Taste of England Award: Tea Room / Coffee Shop of the Year*
REGIONAL ONLY AWARDS
*One overall winner from these three categories will go forward to the national Taste of England Award
The awards give us the chance to celebrate Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent’s best tourism and hospitality businesses and the valuable contribution they make to the visitor economy.
We will be holding a glittering black-tie Celebration Dinner and Awards Ceremony in March 2026 where the winners will be announced.
If you have any queries relating to the Visit Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Tourism Awards, please email tourism@staffordshire.gov.uk
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