About

Sussex By The Sea is Arun’s tourism brand, coordinated by Arun District Council, supporting the activities of our local attractions, businesses and community. Our webpage is designed to help our visitors to navigate around and know what’s going on in our key destinations. Our social media pages help us to reach new and returning visitors and tell them about our wonderful destinations.

The Sussex By The Sea Business Hub is designed to help businesses and support our tourism economy to grow and develop with tools and information to increase the length of our visitors stay and their spend.

Using the Sussex By The Sea Business Hub can also increase the profile of and awareness of your business.

We’re not the only ones that can help you, we work closely with other tourism board in the sector:

So, what makes you a tourism business?

If you offer experiences and services to visitors in a particular destination in Arun you’re a tourism business. Some examples are hotels, attractions, food and beverage, transport providers, shops and tour operators.

How we can help you:

• The Partnership for Free Network events and Breakfast networking
• Business led Sussex hospitality and events network
• Our Arun Business Partnership newsletter for our Explore Local monthly update
• Toolkits

Other available resources, toolkits and information on how to work with partner tourism boards through the Local Visitor Economy Partnership (LVEP), Experience Sussex and Visit Arundel

What you can do:

• Join the Partnership
• Join the Sussex hospitality and events network
• Sign up to our Arun Business Partnership newsletter
• Use these toolkits and resources:
  • Starting your business
  • Marketing- tools available here and through the Sussex hospitality and events network
  • Regenerative tourism - how to make your business more sustainable, step by step
  • Accessibility and inclusivity
  • Find funding
  • Find training
  • Get quality assessed
  • Crisis management
  • Health and safety
  • The Pink Book – guidance on the legal bits
• Tell what toolkits might be helpful for you, so we can create them
• Share your images and videos – we think our businesses and communities capture our unique destinations so beautifully, so we want to shout about it. Tag us in your social media at @Sussexbytheseaarun on Instagram and @Sussexbythesea on Facebook
• Grow your business to make it easier for visitors to stay longer and spend more

Through our partner tourist board, using the links above, you can:

• Update events on their pages (links above)
• Apply for a business list with
• Sharing images and videos with

To learn more about tourism, contact Harriet Coombs by emailing harriet.coombs@arun.gov.uk or call her on 07523 979 564