VisitBritain/VisitEngland reports on year of tourism growth
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- Tuesday, 09 October 2018
Visitors spent more than £1 billion in Britain last year as a result of activity by national tourism agency VisitBritain/VisitEngland latest figures show.
This means that for every pound invested in the agency, visitors spent £25 in Britain. As well as the UK Government investment, the agency had attracted £13 million of investment in cash and in-kind from commercial partners and delivered £2 million profit from its online shop – money which is reinvested into its activities to grow the value of tourism.
Best of UK’s business events industry on show to Chinese meeting and incentive planners
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- Thursday, 27 September 2018
VisitBritain is this week showcasing to the Chinese business events market why the UK should be its destination of choice for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE).
The national tourism agency’s inaugural ‘MeetGB China’ event, being held in Edinburgh on Friday 28 September, is bringing together 27 meeting and incentives suppliers from across the UK with Chinese buyers to do business.
APPG Evidence Session - 'Give us more support', industry tells MPs
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- Wednesday, 12 September 2018
First published by Meetings and Incentive Travel on 11/09/2018.
London venues told MPs that they need more support from government to help grow the industry in an evidence session in Parliament.
The Business of Events Announces 2018 Program - VisitBritain Returns as Supporting Partner
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- Monday, 13 August 2018
The Business of Events (TBOE) has announced it is to return in 2018 with a much-expanded program of activity with VisitBritain again supporting the series of events.
This year will see the anchor TBOE Senior Leadership Forum return to the QEII Centre in London on Friday 26th October and be preceded by a Parliamentary Debate on Thursday 25th October in Portcullis House, Westminster, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Events Industry.
VisitBritain - Tradeshow Excellence leads as the first workshop for Your Partner in Business Events programme
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- Monday, 30 July 2018
VisitBritain has this week held its inaugural workshop designed to support the development and competitiveness of business events to the UK.
The Tradeshow Excellence workshop, hosted at CentrEd at the ExCeL London, saw 20 attendees learn how to maximise their investment and presence at international business event tradeshows.
Tourism Alliance re-elects BVEP representative to its Board of Directors
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- Monday, 23 July 2018
At its Annual General Meeting held today (Monday, 23rd July 2018), Michael Hirst OBE, Chairman of the Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP), was reappointed for a three-year term to the board of the Tourism Alliance, the body that represents over fifty organisations covering the diverse sectors making up Britain’s visitor economy.
Hirst has been a Tourism Alliance board member for the past fifteen years, was Chairman of the Alliance in 2013 and has also served as Treasurer and on the Executive Committee.
Nick de Bois quits EIB as he joins Raab’s Brexit team
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- Thursday, 19 July 2018
First published in Conference News on 17th July 2018.
Events Industry Board chairman, leading Brexiteer and former Conservative MP Nick de Bois, is stepping down from the EIB role as he takes up the post of chief of staff to Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab.
Grant applications open for programme to boost international business events across UK
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- Thursday, 12 July 2018
Applications for grants are being called for VisitBritain’s programme to secure new international business events for the UK and to grow the value of existing events, boosting the economy.
VisitBritain’s Business Events Growth Programme* provides support to the UK’s business events sector with two funding strands. The ‘Bid Enhancement and Support’ strand supports UK cities in their bids for international events. The ‘International Delegate Growth’ strand supports existing business events to boost their events international attendance and profile.
Heathrow expansion puts UK in pole position for events, says BVEP chairman
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- Tuesday, 26 June 2018
(Article first published in Conference News on 26th June 2018). BVEP chairman Michael Hirst OBE says that the planned expansion to Heathrow Airport, which was approved in a vote by MPs on 25 June, will strengthen the UK’s position at the forefront of the events industry. “Heathrow is the main hub airport for business travellers into Britain”, he told CN exclusively. “Its eventual expansion will enable the essential growth in business visitors to conferences, exhibitions and other events as we strengthen the country’s position as a destination for world class events.”
BVEP Partners Meet in Bristol
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- Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Representatives from The Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) held their partners' meeting in Bristol last week as guests of Destination Bristol.
The meeting received reports on current lobbying activities and discussed the progress on government representation, skills and infrastructure being made by the Events Industry Board and the arrangements being made by the All Party Parliamentary Group for a Parliamentary Debate this coming autumn. The Business Events Growth Programme being introduced by VisitBritain was also reviewed.
APPG for UK Events Industry to Hold Series of Evidence Sessions
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- Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Please download news release below for more details.
BVEP enrols GTMC
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- Thursday, 21 June 2018
The Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced today that the GTMC has become a partner of the organisation.
The GTMC is the representative body for travel management companies (TMCs) and the business travel community in the UK. Members of the GTMC range from some of the world’s largest TMC groups to specialist travel businesses. The trade body works with its members and industry partners to raise the profile of the economic impact of business travel and lobby those at the highest level within the sector and government.
New Research Reveals An Evolving UK Meetings Market
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- Tuesday, 19 June 2018
New research into the UK’s conference and meetings sector, entitled the ‘UK Conference and Meeting Survey 2018’ (UKCAMS), reveals an estimated £18.1 billion of direct expenditure generated by conference and meeting delegates in venues and in wider destination spend in 2017. While the overall number of conferences and meetings held in 2017 was lower than in 2016, the average size of events was up slightly on 2016.
