- Author, Sophie Madden
- Role, BBC News, West Midlands
Two figures of the West Midlands’ tourism sector have been nominated for a national award.
Lily-Rose Sheppard, a kayak tour guide in Birmingham, and Pete Chambers, the director of Coventry Music Museum, are two of the ten people in the running to be named VisitEngland’s annual tourism Superstar.
Both said they were amazed to be nominated.
The overall winner is set to be chosen through a public vote.
Ms Sheppard said the nomination “blows my mind”.
“I absolutely love what I do and never expected anything like that to happen, I just love showing people around Birmingham and waffling on about it,” she said
She began working at Roundhouse Birmingham, from where the tours are operated, as a volunteer…