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Culture, Heritage & Tourism
Culture gives people a reason to visit, stay and return
Fulking Escarpement, South Downs National Park. Photo Sam Moore.
Sussex’s cultural distinctiveness can inspire people to visit, stay longer, explore further and return — creating greater value across the region.
Few English regions can offer this much culture, heritage, landscape and pleasure within such easy reach: Brighton’s May Festivals and Pride; the Royal Pavilion; Glyndebourne and Charleston; Chichester Festival Theatre; De La Warr Pavilion; Goodwood Art Foundation; historic Rye, Lewes, Arundel and Chichester; vineyards, gardens and castles; the South Downs National Park, High Weald National Landscape and Sussex Heritage Coast. Sussex also has an extraordinary festival ecology, from major international events to local celebrations.
Sussex Modern has already shown how contemporary culture, wine, landscape and food can be connected across boundaries into a single destination proposition.
The Local Visitor Economy Partnership is represented by two members of Culture Sussex (Nathaniel Hepburn and Lucy Davies) and is a close partner to the cultural sector in encouraging people to stay in Sussex, as the key visitor economy strategic infrastructure that the Sussex & Brighton Strategic Authority are engaging with.
