Lincolnshire Day 2010 – promote your business

Lincolnshire Day will celebrate everything Lincolnshire throughout October 2010.

We’d like to share the information with you, and encourage you to get involved to promote your business and the county to residents and visitors alike.

Your support can be as big or as small as you want. Over the last few years Lincolnshire businesses, schools and community groups have got involved in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways.

Cafés and restaurants have served dedicated Lincolnshire menus where all the ingredients are grown in the county - even down to the sugar in the coffee!

Other businesses have asked their staff to wear yellow for the day in honour of the county's Yellow Belly historical roots; or they have flown the Lincolnshire Flag.

What you do is entirely up to you - we just want to inspire you to join us to celebrate Lincolnshire Day.

Decided to celebrate Lincolnshire Day – don’t forget to submit your event on the website!

A dedicated Lincolnshire Day website has been launch to act as the hub of information for the event. Visitors and businesses can visit the site to see what events and activities are taking place.

For more information visit the Lincolnshire Day website and submit your events to events@lincolnshireday.co.uk

Vote Lincolnshire in Best Beach hut Competition UK

There is a national competition to crown the UK’s best beach hut and we’d like your support to put Lincolnshire’s beach huts on their shortlist.

If a Lincolnshire beach hut scooped the top prize the county would receive national media attention and endorsements from influential coastal commentators. This would help raise Lincolnshire profile and would attract more visitors to the county’s coastline.

To celebrate their colourful presence on our coastline people are being asked to put forward their ‘Beach Hut of the Year’ in a competition that will see five coastal regions go head to head for the coveted award.

Entries can be submitted on theBest Kept Hut, Best Design, Beach Hut Hero and Best Beach Hut Name at www.beachhutoftheyear.co.uk.

With over 20,000 beach huts in the UK there are plenty to choose from and entries are welcome from individuals, councils, regional tourist boards or beach hut associations. The public can take part by visiting the website and voting for their favourites.

For more information visit the Beach hut of the Year website – don’t forget to pass it on to friends.

Get yourself on the Guardian’s tourist map for free

As part of VisitEngland’s partnership with the Guardian newspaper they have produced an interactive tourist map which they are asking people to populate with their favourite places to visit from all over the UK.

This is a perfect opportunity for you to put your business onto the tourist map and highlight yourself and Lincolnshire to the millions of people who log onto the Guardian’s website every day. You can see the interactive tourist map on the Guardian’s travel website and also on VisitEngland’s website.

In order to build on the great information already submitted by Guardian readers, VisitEngland is encouraging Visit Lincolnshire to pass the interactive map onto our businesses and partners.

Information on the map could also be used to feed news article into the Guardian’s travel supplements that are printed every weekend.

It would be great if you could support the map and pass it on to others who can help us grow the Lincolnshire profile.

Upload your information now into the interactive tourist map, once you have updated one website it will automatically update the other.