Benefits For The Islands

We are integral to supporting the local economy, ensuring it thrives and providing natural growth for years to come. Here are the wider benefits across all 5 islands.

Events:

We support, organise and hosts events on and for the islands that help drive new visitors, particularly in the shoulder seasons. The event programme for 2025 includes Walk Scilly, World Pilot Gig Championships, Creative Scilly, Ocean Scilly and Taste of Scilly, all run or funded by Visit Isles of Scilly.

Promotion:

However big or small your business, when signing up to be a member of Visit Isles of Scilly, you are automatically buying into a programme for marketing Scilly worth over £200,000. Working together on this partnership approach to communicating the benefits of the destination is crucial to the visitor economy and it can only take place with all our members’ support and contribution.

Tourist Information Centre:

With no public funding of the core operational costs of the TIC, support from our members is vital to ensure the continued operation of the TIC for the benefit of visitors and businesses.

Unlocking additional funding:

Every £1 we receive in membership fees contributes to leveraging five times as much additional project income – our membership base is the critical foundation for the outcomes of our work.  

Flying the flag for tourism:

Our small team champions the tourism visitor economy on Scilly and works with colleagues and partners regionally and nationally. We fly the flag for Scilly at every opportunity, making sure the islands’ interests and its vital economy are represented and supported.

Supporting the local economy:

Tourism visitor spending is the core of the Scillonian economy. Our work contributes to visitor retention and attracts new visitors; the money visitors spend directly with visitor facing businesses creates secondary local expenditure across the entire island economy – its services and trades. More higher spending visitors benefits and sustains the whole of our economy.

Annual report, prospectus and rate cards:

Find out more by reading our annual report and prospectus for 2024/25 and our accommodation and non-accommodation rate cards for 2024/25.

Remember...

We are a not-for-profit organisation and every contribution made by businesses on the islands is spent on growing the value of Scilly’s visitor economy.