Tourism Task Force launched Visit Isle Of Wight is reaching out to the tourism industry to create a “tourism task force” which will help to address a specific decline in visitor numbers. The DMO is looking to address the drop in VFR’s - people coming to stay with...

Cowes based Seacat Services are celebrating the launch of Seacat Courageous, the firm’s second 26-metre offshore energy crew transfer vessel and their ninth to be built on the Island. In February Seacat Services confirmed a £6 million order with South Boats, also...

Wightlink Ferries has a new owner. Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Partners LP (BBIP) has purchased the company from Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund (MEIF) for an undisclosed sum. Chief Executive Russell Kew, Chief Operating Officer John Burrows, and their...

Over 200 full time skilled jobs are being advertised for positions at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind’s blade production facility in Newport. Serial production of 80m composite blades will begin in May. Vestas CEO Jens Tommerup said the creation of over 200 skilled jobs...

The Isle of Wight Health and Safety Group has picked up the Gold Award for the third year running at a prestigious ceremony at the House Of Lords. An independent panel of judges also named the group as the overall winner of the Alan Butler Award. Lord Brougham of Vaux...

The Isle of Wight Council’s budget plans are in place for 2015/16, including spending £31.4 million on growing the economy and tourism. A new report details proposals for savings, which focus on current services and activities that are no longer affordable and how...

Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) and the IW Chamber of Commerce are asking businesses to debate the future of tourism at a conference taking place on the Island on Tuesday 24th February at Park Resorts, Thorness Bay, near Cowes. Aimed at tourism providers and related...

The Isle of Wight College has been named best in the UK for Innovative Use of Technology by the Further Education Marketing Network. The college’s entry, entitled ’The Prospectus in Your Pocket’, focused on the in-house design and implementation of mobile apps for...