There will be a united showing from the city of Nottingham at this year’s Event UK with Nottingham Conferences, Experience Nottinghamshire, The Nottingham Hoteliers Association, and Nottingham Arena partnering for the first time to create a Destination Nottingham area at the show.

The collaboration aims to promote Nottingham and the surrounding region as a first class destination for conducting and winning business. It will also form part of a wider campaign encompassing a rebranding of ‘Keep Britain Talking’ to ‘Keep Nottingham Talking’; highlighting the multi million pound economic contribution that the meetings and events industry brings to Nottingham and the East Midlands.

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Nottingham Conferences has confirmed a conference win for Nottingham that will see an estimated £250,000* of economic impact for the city. The conference, branded Interflam, will bring over 350 experts in fire science and engineering from 25 destinations across the globe into the city.

“A delegate for a conference like this is expected to inject on average £247 per visit into the city, be it through accommodation, travel and through spend in bars, restaurants and local shops,” comments Kirstie Danzey, Marketing Manager at Nottingham Conferences. “This, added to the event production and overnight accommodation, represents a significant boost to the local economy.”

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Nottingham Conferences has joined a significant agreement that will see it become closer to the business opportunities presented by the Olympic Games set to take place in London 2012.

The 2012 UK Event Industry Fair Pricing and Practice Charter is designed to capitalise on the city’s business tourism industry – currently worth an estimated £172 million a year to the local economy – by committing signatories to a fair pricing business agreement involving the domestic and international business that will be attracted to the UK surrounding the Games.

Nottingham Conferences, which represents the entire conference and events portfolio of The University of Nottingham is the first academic venue in the whole of the UK organisation to sign the charter. 

Highlighting the impact that the 2012 Olympic Games will bring to Nottingham and the East Midlands, Kirstie Danzey Marketing Manager of Nottingham Conferences commented; “Although inevitably, most of the focus will be on London during 2012, it is important that Nottingham and the East Midlands and all other UK destinations press themselves to become a part of the Olympic Games, aligning themselves with what is going on and help to make it a UK legacy rather than just London.”

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Destination London, the trends report from ExCeL London has received a welcome endorsement from the Mayor of London ahead of its launch at IMEX (26^th – 27^th May 09) later this month.

The report features quantitative and qualitative research from over 300 event organisers and delegates, providing insight into current and future trends within the London conference and events industry.

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, commented within the report:

“Our capital is a unique city that offers great diversity and choice, with over 300 languages spoken and a skilled and talented workforce to help businesses in the capital grow and succeed.

“We are investing in large infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, the largest addition to the transport network in London and the South East for 50 years, and upgrading our Tube lines so that they are fit for the 21st century.”

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Nottingham Conferences is launching a year long awareness campaign highlighting the million pound benefit of holding conferences and events in the Nottingham and East Midlands region. The brand representing the University of Nottingham’s conference facilities will have brought £64.3 million* to the local economy by the end of 2008, a figure it is looking to increase in 2009 through a series of sales and marketing activities supported by a fully integrated PR campaign. Planned tactics will not only demonstrate the benefits of Nottingham as a business destination, but will highlight the importance of a local support network bringing and keeping business in the local community.

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