Media Visits

Thinking about visiting and writing about York?

Apart from offering some ideas for your features and blogs, our team is here to help you plan your trip to York.

Each year Visit York hosts press visits for travel journalists, freelance travel writers and travel influencers and bloggers from both domestic and international publications. We work with partners and business in the city and can help plan individual itineraries for visiting media.

Press trips with Visit York can include:

• Two nights' accommodation in York for you plus a guest
• VIP passes or York Passes to explore the city's attractions

• Help in creating itineraries that will suit your audience, focus of your article, blog or commission
• Assistance with rail travel where possible
• Help in organising other extra experiences

Our team also works closely with the North York Moors National Park and other authorities and can help organise a York & Beyond press trips for suitable commissions.

All requests for media visits are assessed on an individual basis. We thank all our visiting writers for your interest in York.

Get in touch, and we will do our best to assist – email comms@makeityork.com for more information and help in organising your press visit.

Please note: We can only offer press trips to journalists and writers with a commission. If you're interested in coming to York on a press visit, please contact us with your name, full details on where your article will appear, publication title, circulation, mobile number, email address and details of how you plan to travel to York. Please get in touch, we look forward to seeing you in York.