Yorkshire's first whisky distillery named in top 10% of worldwide visitor attractions
The team at Yorkshire's first whisky distillery are celebrating after being awarded a Travellers' Choice Award in the Things to Do category by the world's largest travel platform, Tripadvisor.
Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery in Hunmanby was awarded the certificate forconsistently delivering fantastic experiences and continuing to earn positive reviews and ratings during a challenging year.
"Congratulations to all the winners of the 2021 Travellers' Choice Awards," said Kanika Soni, Chief Commercial Officer at Tripadvisor. "I know the past year has been extremely challenging for tourism businesses. What has impressed me is how businesses adapted to these challenges, implementing new cleanliness measures, adding social distancing guidelines, and utilizing technology to prioritize guest safety.
"The Travellers' Choice Awards highlight the places that are consistently excellent - delivering quality experiences time and time again even while navigating changing customer expectations and new ways of working. Based on a full year of reviews from customers, this award speaks to the great service and experience you provided guests in the midst of a pandemic."
Spirit of Yorkshire Co-founder, David Thompson is delighted that the work that his team has done to deliver an exceptional customer experience in challenging circumstances has been rewarded with such a prestigious award:"We're over the moon that this award puts us in the top 10% of attractions worldwide.
"The tour guides and Pot Still Coffee Shop teams are regularly complemented on their passion, enthusiasm and knowledge, but to receive this formal accolade is amazing and a real credit to our small team."
Spirit of Yorkshire is Tripadvisor's number one of nine things to do in Hunmanby. 89% of its reviews are five star and 97% are four and five star reviews combined. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/SOYTripAdvisor.
Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery is Yorkshire's first single malt whisky distillery. It has welcomed over 60,000 visitors since it opened a visitor attraction in 2017.
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Photograph caption: Left to right: Naomi Thorp, Diane Dodgshun, Amy Teasdale, Dom Brining, Claire Ball, Millie Wroot and John Morrison Members of the distillery team with the award
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Notes to editors
- For more information about Spirit of Yorkshire, please visit https://www.spiritofyorkshire.com/
- Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel platform*, helps hundreds of millions of travelers each month** make every trip their best trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to browse more than 878 million reviews and opinions of 8.8 million accommodations, restaurants, experiences, airlines and cruises. Whether planning or on a trip, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to compare low prices on hotels, flights and cruises, book popular tours and attractions, as well as reserve tables at great restaurants. Tripadvisor, the ultimate travel companion, is available in 49 markets and 28 languages.
* Source: SimilarWeb, September 2020
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