TripAdvisor award for Oxford Official Walking Tours

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Peter Davison

Oxford Official Walking Tours, operated by the county’s destination management organisation, Experience Oxfordshire, has once again been accredited with a TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Award.

The award is based on a full year of positive reviews from tourists.

With the return of international visitors to the city and county this summer, the range and frequency of tours available has been increased.

Oxford University and City Tour remains their most popular tour, but the Oxford Official Walking Tours also offer experiences based on entertainment, including locations used in the filming of the Harry Potter films and the Inspector Morse TV series.

Tours team leader Annie Macdonald said: "“We are delighted to have received the TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice award.

"This award is important to us as it was voted for by customers that have actually been on the tours and have clearly enjoyed their experience with us.

"We believe our Official Tours are one of the very best ways to see Oxford, helping visitors to get behind the stonework of these magnificent institutions by sharing historical facts and telling the fascinating stories of those who worked and lived here.”

Hayley Beer-Gamage CEO of Experience Oxfordshire said: “This TripAdvisor accolade is testament to the hard work that the tours team and guides undertake to ensure that visitors are given a great tour of Oxford and receive an enjoyable visitor experience.

"We are very pleased to welcome visitors back to Oxfordshire this summer and are truly delighted to have won this valuable award yet again and we look forward to continuing to develop our tours programme.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.