Each year Brecon Beacons National Park is visited by some 3.8 million people who spend around 4.2 million days and £130 million here.

The many tourism businesses in the National Park and the communities that rely on their income benefit greatly from these visits.  The National Park Authority works closely with them to ensure that tourism brings as many benefits to the community and environment as possible whilst minimising and managing the impacts those visitors have.

The National Park Authority works to promote enjoyment and to encourage understanding of the area by the public and to intergate this with the conservation of what makes the place special. This includes producing information and interpretation, managing public rights of way and access areas, car parks and toilets and warden service.

The new COLLABOR8  project, funded by the European Union's Interreg IVB North West Europe programme, aims to support and develop clusters of tourism businesses based on quality, sustainability and sense of place principles.  BBNPA is one of 9 partners across NW Europe pursuing this project and learning from each others work.  The COLLABOR8 website is at www.collabor8.me

It is developing work on Green Tourism, Local Food and National Park Ambassadors and will support up to 12 clusters, each of which will take responsibility for developing the tourism potential of its part of the Brecon Beacons.