On this site you’ll find a number of sections that provide you with background information as well as articles that you may download to include in your own publicity material, guest information packs or bedroom browsers.
The website has been developed to help tourism providers in the Mid Wales area strengthen their own and the region's Sense of Place. We are confident that it will improve the visitor’s experience of Mid Wales and bring added value to your business. Croeso i Gymru - Developing your Sense of Place is part of Visit Wales’s new ‘Croeso Cynnes Cymreig’ programme.
For a full information pack contact the Visit Wales Team on 01654 704004 / quality.tourism@wales.gsi.gov.uk and learn how you can become a 'Croeso' business.
Mid Wales is a large area, which includes a number of diverse regions within it. It spans the stunningly beautiful landmass between Penrhyndeudraeth in the North West Corner, to the Georgian town of Crickhowell in the South East; the border town of Welshpool in North East Wales, to Aberteifi in south Ceredigion. The diversity of culture is as diverse as the landscape, providing the visitor with a rich mixture of Anglo Welsh and indigenous folk cultures to explore.
There are a few common strands to this regions’ Sense of Place. It is dominated by landscape, and the largely unspoilt land masses around small rural market towns. This has attracted innumerable artists and artisans to settle in the region, providing a potent community mix of arts and culture and rural life. The region has a strong eco- drive. The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth has spearheaded this movement, and at the time of writing, there are more organic growers per head of population in Mid Wales than anywhere else in Wales
This is also an historic landscape, dotted by ancient byways and drovers routes. A land punctuated by isolated hilltop forts and tumble down fortresses that tell the story of bloodshed and war this land has witnessed as both rival Celtic and Welsh tribes have fought over it, and also united to defend it against Roman, Saxon, Norman and English invaders alike. Legends and stories are part of the fabric of the earth here. Giants, underwater kingdoms, great princely deeds of courage, great hunts, heroic challenges, water monsters, and fairies or the tylwyth teg, and otherworldly beasts abound.
This may all be the stuff that dreams, histories and legends are made of. It is also what holiday memories are made of. We hope that this site will enable you to better express and share the special sense of place of Mid Wales with your visitors, and provide them with rich, colourful memories they will never forget.
© 2009 Tourism Partnership Mid Wales