VISIT WALES: PROPER HOLIDAYS
MAY, 2010
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ABOUT
We’ve worked with Visit Wales since 2005 to change the outdated perception of Wales as an old-fashioned holiday destination. The 2010/2011 campaign showed what it felt like for a visitor to have a holiday in Wales. We found a real family, The Drakes, a family of five from Huddersfield, who’d recently had an underwhelming holiday elsewhere, and treated them to a ‘proper holiday’ in Wales, filming them throughout to see how they reacted. Alongside the TVCs, you could also visit the website, where a map plotted the family’s journey around the country, telling their story through web films and additional content showing the places they visited and the activities they experienced.
Visit Wales estimates the 'Proper Holidays' campaign helped bring in £132.6 million into the Welsh economy in 2010, on a budget of less than 1/50th of that.



