Visitor Attractions Quality Assurance Service (VAQAS)

VAQAS is the national scheme for visitor attractions. It helps to identify strengths of an attraction and highlights development areas, based on industry examples.

A wide range of attractions of all sizes, both large and small, throughout England have benefited from participation in the service. In Manchester existing members include:

• MOSI
• East Lancashire Railway
• Imperial War Museum North
• Manchester United Museum and Tour Centre

Benefits of participation include:

• A Guide to Best Practice
• A Self Assessment Toolkit
• In-depth Quality Assessment
• One-to-one debrief
• Full post visit report
• Accreditation – ‘Quality Assured Visitor Attraction’
• Promotion – Use of the VAQAS quality marque in local, regional and national tourism guides.
• Enhanced promotion on www.visitbritain.com and www.visitmanchester.com

All Vist Manchester members that are visitor attractions are required to be VAQAS accredited. Visit Manchester can offer a contribution towards the cost of accreditation. For further information please email nicola.trotter@visitmanchester.com or call 0161 238 4581.

For further information on VAQAS, click here