A packed tourist guide with something for everyone looking to visit Stoke-on-Trent in its city centenary year.

#EnglishTourismWeek25
#WorldCraftCity
#CeramicsTourism

Celebrating 40 years in the spiritual home of British ceramics, Emma Bridgewater says, “Stoke-on-Trent is steeped in so much history with regards to the pottery industry and we think that is something worth writing on every single piece of ware we produce.”

#CeramicsTourism
#AllMadeHere

Looking forward to this year’s Boxing Day feast in the atmospheric Gladstone Pottery Museum where the #FestivePotteryThrowDown celebrities will be hand building a ceramic Winter Wonderland before throwing as many festive wine coolers as possible.

#WorldCraftCity #SoT100 #CeramicsTourism

In 1988 the British Tourist Authority launched ‘See Industry at Work’, one of the first campaigns promoting visits to active factories.

Industrial tourism in Stoke-on-Trent, a World Craft City, is characterised by pottery factory affection.

#AllMadeHere
#CeramicsTourism

@visitbritain.bsky.social

#AllMadeHere in Stoke-on-Trent, the spiritual home of British ceramics, now designated a World Craft City.

#CeramicsTourism
#Burleigh
#EmmaBridgewater
#DuchessChina1888

🎶 O Christmas clay, O Christmas clay … 🎶

Ahead of its centenary celebrations, this year’s festive @potterythrow.bsky.social is another Christmas place marketing gift that keeps on giving for Stoke-on-Trent, now designated a World Craft City.

#PotteryThrowDown
#SoT100
#CeramicsTourism

My research with local attractions has revealed the following ceramics tourist typology with visitors categorised as: ‘purposefully ceramics motivated’, ceramics-inspired sightseers’, or ‘incidental ceramics participators’.

#CeramicsTourism

Discussions linked to an enhanced ceramics tourism trail in Stoke-on-Trent, now a designated World Craft City.

A reminder that #CeramicsTourism is the passive engagement or active participation in ceramics-focused experiences of an educational, creative, entertainment, retail or curiosity nature.