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Wholesalers Training Notes January 2019 Slide Topic Slide 1 GWW LOGO Slide 2 Welcome to the GWW Slide 3 Our Vision Slide 4 Map What is the Great West Way? • Based on First Great Road commissioned by Kings of England • An extraordinary variety of product along route – both icons and less well known places to visit – lots of history and heritage, traditional English market towns etc. Slide 5 A Multi-modal Touring route & Connectivity • Multi-modal Range of travel options – road, rail, water, walk, cycle • Bristol Airport or Heathrow Airport – Bristol Airport has branded Arrivals corridor • Great Western Railway (GWR) – Rail and local bus routes – new Great West Way Discoverer ticket 3 & 7 day https://www.greatwestway.co.uk/explore/rail/great-west-way- discoverer-ticket • National Cycle Network Route 4 • Waterways: River Thames (Visit Thames) and K & A Canal (Canal & River Trust) – boat trips / overnight / self-drive / hotel boats • Views and landscape along the journey are part of the experience • Walking routes, trails and guided / self-guided Slide 6 Video – url - https://youtu.be/FgcK5d-T6F4 Slide 7 The Curious Visitor For the curious, the inquisitive. Those who like to go deeper, to see and feel and do and try and taste for themselves. For seekers of real, the authentic and the very essence of England. Journey part of the experience Second time visitors Flexible – ideal for FIT Slide 8 Key Destinations along the route BATH | BRISTOL | BRADFORD ON AVON | CALNE | CHIPPENHAM | CORSHAM | DEVIZES | HENLEY | HUNGERFORD | MARLOW | MALMESBURY | MARLBOROUGH | PEWSEY VALE | NEWBURY | READING | SWINDON |WINDSOR | TROWBRIDGE | WINDSOR Some more well- known than others… An Ambassador network has been created to ensure the sustainability of the Great West Way and provide the intimate knowledge of the route. To date 25 places have signed up including landscapes such as North Wessex Downs, towns and cities along the waterways and towns where the old coach routes run through such as Calne. River Thames – Richmond, Windsor, Reading, Henley and Marlow K&A Canal – Reading, Hungerford, Pewsey, Devizes and Bath

Slide 9 Top things to see and do in Bristol 1. Climb the rigging of a Victorian ship, the SS Great Britain and reach heights of more than 25 metres above Bristol harbour! If you’re feeling really brave you can even walk out along the main yard. 2. Have a “meet and greet” with a red panda, one of several behind the scenes experiences at Bristol Zoo . 3. Sail up into t he sky in a hot air balloon at Europe’s largest annual meeting of hot air balloons, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta every August. You needn’t wait for the fiesta though, Bailey Balloons offer flights all year round above both Bristol and Bath. 4. Step aboard the last Concorde ever built at Aerospace Bristol , on the site that built every British Concorde ever made. It’s the 50 th anniversary of Concorde in 2019. 5. Take a paddle boarding lesson around Bristol Harbour with SUP Bristol (S tand Up Paddleboarding). 6. Walk across Brunel’s famous Clifton Suspension Bridge , gazing across the dramatic Avon Gorge 7. Spot a Banksy – an artwork by the anonymous street artist – in the city he hails from, Bristol. You can also watch other street artists at work, painting the walls as part of Europe’s largest street art and graffiti festival, every July. Book a street art tour. 8. Drink English wine direct from the vineyard at the award-winning Aldwick Vineyard in Bristol. English sparkling wine is getting especially popular so be sure to give it a try. 9. Learn how stop animation works in Bristol, home to Aardman Animations , the Academy Award winning studio who brought the world Wallace and Gromit. We the Curious science centre hosts model making workshops with experts from the studio – you’ll even get to take home a plasticine Gromit. 10. Book a Harbour Tour with Bristol Packet Boats or Bristol Ferry Boats 11. Take a guided walk around Arnos Vale cemetery. It was opened in 1839 as a garden cemetery, visually attractive in the style of a walled Greek Necropolis, with neo-classical mortuary chapels and gate lodges. There are 4 Grade II Listed buildings. Discover the history of those buried there. Slide 10 Top things to see and do in Bath 1. Soak in the UK’s only natural hot springs at Thermae Bath Spa – home to a rooftop al fresco pool with views over the city’s ancient rooftops. 2. Visit No 1 The Royal Crescent and stay at Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa 3. Step into the first to the fourth century AD in the The Roman Baths and the remarkably preserved remains of one of the greatest religious spas of the ancient world. 4. Dress like Jane Austen, bonnet and all, and dance the night away at the Regency Costumed Masked Ball in Bath, part of the annual Jane Austen Festival (September) – Visit the Jane Austen Centre. 5. Shopping in Bath - Bath’s compact, visitor -friendly city centre is packed with retailers large and small, from one of-a-kind independent boutiques to major high street names. Shop while walking on water at Pulteney Bridge. This gorgeous Georgian bridge is one of only four worldwide to have shops lining both sides and is a classical masterpiece. 6. See paintings by English masters Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable, housed together at Bath’s Holburne Museum 7. Hear nothing but silence in the designated Silent Space at Prior Park Landscape Garden . This was once the site of a Gothic temple; today it’s a serene spot where every Thursday noon-3pm mobile devices are banned and silence is requested. 8. Discover the history of the shoe at the Fashion Museum in Bath, where you’ll find a collection that runs from Georgian silk shoes to Nike trainers. 9. Accommodation partners include 5* Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa and 4* Abbey Hotel with its new brasserie Koffman & Mr White’s . VisiSlide Top things to see and do in Bradford on Avon • 11 Step inside a 14 th century Tithe Barn , complete with a staggering timber roof of wooden arches that stretch for more than 50 metres above your head. Bradford on Avon’s tithe barn is so historically important that it’s protected by English Heritage. • St Laurence’s Church , is an ancient Anglo Saxon building. It’s reported to be s tanding in the 1120s, but thought to date back to the time of St Aldhelm (d. 709).