Leeds News
Conference Leeds reveals all at the National Venue Show
Conference Leeds was proud to unveil its decision to adopt the Leeds, Live it, Love it brand as part of its drive to increase the amount of business tourism to the city. Attending the National Venue Show the team unveiled the new look and announced the simultaneous launch of the new website, The new updated conference guide for 2006/07 and new branding.
Nicky Lockwood, Manager of Conference Leeds said “We were delighted to launch our new marketing collateral at the National Venue Show. We were very busy during the show with enquiries up by 50%”.
The new website, www.conference-leeds.com, allows customers to plan their conference on-line for the first time. They can search venues by criteria such city centre location, accommodation and room layout. Customers are also able to make an on-line venue enquiry and book on-line for forthcoming conferences. For the first time businesses and private parties can search a whole range of venues and facilities in one place.
The new Conference Guide has been updated to include an overview of future and proposed facilities, a guide to corporate hospitality in Leeds and a taster of what Leeds has to offer once the business is over. The guide is a comprehensive listing of over 40 venues from across Leeds, not just city centre. Each venue has information regarding capacity of rooms, styles of function, catering capabilities and accommodation facilities. There is also a simple and quick to use key and star rating for each venue and a travel section to help businesses make their choice and plan their trip.
For further details please contact Nicky Lockwood on 0113 247 7048
For more information visit: www.conference-leeds.com
Malmaison wins best small hotel vote
Malmaison Leeds has won the Hotel of the Year Award (35 bedrooms and over) at the annual Yorkshire Tourist Board (YTB) White Rose Awards for Tourism.
Malmaison Leeds was praised for its care, consistency and passion, its continued investment in maintaining its high standards alongside an individual staff training programme unique within the industry. Collecting the award, Sophie Peters of Malmaison was elated, maintaining that to be awarded Hotel of the Year for Yorkshire was very important, “Malmaison Leeds wants to be part of Yorkshire not just thought of as part of a national brand”.
The ceremony itself was presided over by YTB’s chairman Judith Donovan CBE and took place before an audience of over 550 people including finalists, supporters, invited guests and VIPs.
Yorkshire broadcasters and media personalities Harry Gration and Christa Ackroyd announced the awards and the presentation to Malmaison Leeds was made by David Andrews, Chief Executive of YTB accompanied by Ruth Johnson of sponsors Streamline Merchant Services.
The White Rose Awards for Tourism are supported by VisitBritain and Malmaison Leeds will now go forward to the national Enjoy England Awards in April 2007.
For further details please contact Sophie Peters on 0113 398 1005
For more information regarding Malmaison hotels please visit: www.malmaison.com
Up, up and away as Jet2.com wins best short haul airline
Malmaison Leeds has won the Hotel of the Year Award (35 bedrooms and over) at the annual Yorkshire Tourist Board (YTB) White Rose Awards for Tourism.
Malmaison Leeds was praised for its care, consistency and passion, its continued investment in maintaining its high standards alongside an individual staff training programme unique within the industry. Collecting the award, Sophie Peters of Malmaison was elated, maintaining that to be awarded Hotel of the Year for Yorkshire was very important, “Malmaison Leeds wants to be part of Yorkshire not just thought of as part of a national brand”.
The ceremony itself was presided over by YTB’s chairman Judith Donovan CBE and took place before an audience of over 550 people including finalists, supporters, invited guests and VIPs.
Yorkshire broadcasters and media personalities Harry Gration and Christa Ackroyd announced the awards and the presentation to Malmaison Leeds was made by David Andrews, Chief Executive of YTB accompanied by Ruth Johnson of sponsors Streamline Merchant Services.
The White Rose Awards for Tourism are supported by VisitBritain and Malmaison Leeds will now go forward to the national Enjoy England Awards in April 2007.
For further details please contact Sophie Peters on 0113 398 1005
For more information regarding Malmaison hotels please visit: www.malmaison.com
Up, up and away as Jet2.com wins best short haul airline
Jet2.com was voted the ‘Best European Short-Haul Airline’, in the Travel Awards
2006 held in South Africa. The airline was praised for its exemplary service and
low cost fares by its passengers.
The awards, sponsored by the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and now celebrating 20 years of identifying the cream of the travel industry, singled out Jet2.com as the pick of the bunch following extensive research into customer satisfaction.
Jet2.com headed off fierce competition from European national carriers like BA, Lufthansa and Air France/KLM and other low cost airlines. The Leeds based airline, which now flies to 38 destinations across Europe from six established bases, scooped the prestigious award at a luxurious gala ceremony in the South African city of Cape Town.
For further details please contact the jet2.com press office on 0113 243 1355
For more information visit: www.jet2.com
Academy of Sustainable Communities to host first international symposium at Leeds Town Hall
The awards, sponsored by the Guardian and Observer newspapers, and now celebrating 20 years of identifying the cream of the travel industry, singled out Jet2.com as the pick of the bunch following extensive research into customer satisfaction.
Jet2.com headed off fierce competition from European national carriers like BA, Lufthansa and Air France/KLM and other low cost airlines. The Leeds based airline, which now flies to 38 destinations across Europe from six established bases, scooped the prestigious award at a luxurious gala ceremony in the South African city of Cape Town.
For further details please contact the jet2.com press office on 0113 243 1355
For more information visit: www.jet2.com
Academy of Sustainable Communities to host first international symposium at Leeds Town Hall
The Skills for the Future symposium is an international event that will run on
9-10 November 2006 at Leeds Town Hall. It will be hosted by the Academy for Sustainable
Communities, a centre of excellence for the skills and knowledge needed to create
communities fit for the 21st century.
The symposium will be the first gathering of leading experts from across Europe on the subject of skills for place making. It will provide an opportunity for the creation of a European-wide network of organizations and governments committed to building the skills of place-making across Europe. The symposium will also shape a future agenda for collaboration and action.
The symposium will be an interactive learning event that focuses on both the place-making skills requirements in Europe and on the practicalities of taking action and ensuring successful delivery and implementation at national, regional and local levels.
The two days will include speeches and presentations from senior government officials and leading international experts, open debate sessions, workshops focusing on skills challenges, case studies from across Europe, and a Conference Dinner.
For further details or to book your place please contact Shaun Harley on 0870 420 2393
For more information visit: www.ascskills.org.uk
Council for European Urbanism to hold international congress in Leeds
The symposium will be the first gathering of leading experts from across Europe on the subject of skills for place making. It will provide an opportunity for the creation of a European-wide network of organizations and governments committed to building the skills of place-making across Europe. The symposium will also shape a future agenda for collaboration and action.
The symposium will be an interactive learning event that focuses on both the place-making skills requirements in Europe and on the practicalities of taking action and ensuring successful delivery and implementation at national, regional and local levels.
The two days will include speeches and presentations from senior government officials and leading international experts, open debate sessions, workshops focusing on skills challenges, case studies from across Europe, and a Conference Dinner.
For further details or to book your place please contact Shaun Harley on 0870 420 2393
For more information visit: www.ascskills.org.uk
Council for European Urbanism to hold international congress in Leeds
The Council for European Urbanism will hold its second International Congress
in Leeds from 9-10 November 2006, following its successful inaugural Congress
in Berlin in 2005.
Founded in 2003, the Council for European Urbanism comprises a rapidly expanding network in a number of European countries dedicated to the advancement of humane cities, towns, villages and countryside
The Congress programme will explore sustainable urbanism based on the three key strands of physical, social and economic sustainability, considering how sustainable urbanism can be approached holistically in a variety of urban settings in cities, towns and villages around Europe and beyond.
This approach to sustainable development will be explored at a range of scales from the micro-urban to the broadly regional, with an emphasis on examples which reflect the CEU's vision of humane urbanism for Europe's future
To register your interest for further details e-mail ceu-uk@visionary21.idps.co.uk or visit the conference Leeds website: www.conference-leeds.com
Jet.com announce new destinations
Founded in 2003, the Council for European Urbanism comprises a rapidly expanding network in a number of European countries dedicated to the advancement of humane cities, towns, villages and countryside
The Congress programme will explore sustainable urbanism based on the three key strands of physical, social and economic sustainability, considering how sustainable urbanism can be approached holistically in a variety of urban settings in cities, towns and villages around Europe and beyond.
This approach to sustainable development will be explored at a range of scales from the micro-urban to the broadly regional, with an emphasis on examples which reflect the CEU's vision of humane urbanism for Europe's future
To register your interest for further details e-mail ceu-uk@visionary21.idps.co.uk or visit the conference Leeds website: www.conference-leeds.com
Jet.com announce new destinations
Jet2.com has announced that flights for its 25th destination from Leeds Bradford
– Valencia – will get underway from 18th May 2007.
Prices start from just £39.99 one way inclusive of taxes, with an initial four-times-a-week service (Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
The low cost airline has also announced new routes to Krakow starting 31st October. The fares to this Eastern city start at just £19.99 – all fares are one way, inclusive of taxes. Two flights a week will link Poland with Yorkshire.
For further details please contact the jet2.com press office on 0113 243 1355
For more information visit: www.jet2.com
Hall2 given the go ahead
Prices start from just £39.99 one way inclusive of taxes, with an initial four-times-a-week service (Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
The low cost airline has also announced new routes to Krakow starting 31st October. The fares to this Eastern city start at just £19.99 – all fares are one way, inclusive of taxes. Two flights a week will link Poland with Yorkshire.
For further details please contact the jet2.com press office on 0113 243 1355
For more information visit: www.jet2.com
Hall2 given the go ahead
Royal Armouries (International) plc has been given the go-ahead to build Leeds’
largest conference and exhibition centre – plans were finally unveiled to show
a £5m development located at Clarence Dock next to the Royal Armouries Museum.
Hall2, which is due to start in the next few weeks, will see the construction of a clear span exhibition centre covering 27,000sq ft which will increase RAI’s combined ground floor exhibition space to over 40,000sq ft. Coupled with 5 galleries and the existing facilities for conference and banqueting at the Royal Armouries Museum, the development will offer a flexible solution to organisers of almost any kind of indoor event.
Hall2 is scheduled for completion in April 2007, and on-site facilities already include a secure 1,650 space car park and a 130 bed Express by Holiday Inn with 700 more hotel bedrooms within a 5 minute walk.
For further details or to book your place please contact Chris Owen on 0113 220 1906
For more information visit: www.royalarmouries.org
And finally ....
Hall2, which is due to start in the next few weeks, will see the construction of a clear span exhibition centre covering 27,000sq ft which will increase RAI’s combined ground floor exhibition space to over 40,000sq ft. Coupled with 5 galleries and the existing facilities for conference and banqueting at the Royal Armouries Museum, the development will offer a flexible solution to organisers of almost any kind of indoor event.
Hall2 is scheduled for completion in April 2007, and on-site facilities already include a secure 1,650 space car park and a 130 bed Express by Holiday Inn with 700 more hotel bedrooms within a 5 minute walk.
For further details or to book your place please contact Chris Owen on 0113 220 1906
For more information visit: www.royalarmouries.org
And finally ....
Girl power in Leeds is taking over as the city was recently voted the UK’s Most
Female Friendly City in a survey by Vauxhall Tigra. The survey cited vibrant nightlife,
designer shops and a welcoming atmosphere as reasons why Leeds is an ideal place
for women between 25 and 35 to work rest and play. And of course the welcome addition
of relaxing spas and high class boutique hotels can’t hurt!
Leeds also made the grade for the first time in a business survey of the Top 30 European Business Destinations, ranking 28th in the report by consultants Cushman and Wakefield.
Leeds also made the grade for the first time in a business survey of the Top 30 European Business Destinations, ranking 28th in the report by consultants Cushman and Wakefield.
