IP is 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:

The IP supports organises and hosts events on and for the islands that help drive new visitors, particularly in the shoulder seasons. The event programme was interrupted in the 2020 season but plans for future OTILLO, Walk and Wild Scilly, cultural and food and drink events run or funded by the IP will see them return and grow.

Promotion:

However big or small your business, when signing up to be a member of the IP, 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, prosspectus and rate cards:

Find out more by reading the Islands' Partnership annual report for 2020/2021 and prospectus for 2021/2022 and our accomodation and non-accomodation rate cards for 2021/2022.

Remember...

The Islands Partnership is 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.