Conference Leeds, the super convention bureau for Leeds and West Yorkshire and the organisation responsible for attracting conference and events into the area, has launched its most ambitious guide yet aimed at national event and meeting organisers.

The free “Conference Leeds Business Tourism Portfolio” features almost eighty venues in a 64 page glossy guide designed to raise West Yorkshire’s profile amongst UK and overseas Conference Organisers.

Conference Leeds can offer delegates excellent conference facilities for up to 2000 delegates in a range of unique venues including the Royal Armouries Museum, the National Coal Mining Museum and even a real snow slope at Sno!Zone at Xscape, an attraction with a difference on the outskirts of Leeds! Leeds has also seen a huge expansion in its available bed space over the last few years with over 5,500 bedrooms in the West Yorkshire area and major chains such as Radisson, Hilton, Marriott and Bewleys investing in the city.

The guide contains information on the new transport networks into the region with flights into Leeds Bradford airport from over 40 UK and Europe destinations and a high speed train link to London.

Nicola Lockwood, Head of Conference Leeds explains:

“Conference Leeds has expanded – not only has our conference product in Leeds city itself expanded enormously but we now also represent the West Yorkshire areas of Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield and Calderdale.

Leeds is now in the top 5 UK destinations for Association and Corporate events and we are keen to raise our profile even further in the Conference Industry. With this new guide we hope to achieve this, showcasing the world class facilities and unique possibilities of our destination”.

For a free copy of the guide or to use the free venue finding service, contact the Conference Leeds team on 0113 220 6351 or visit www.conference-leeds.com.

Conference Leeds is supported by Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency.


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EDITORS NOTES:
Nicola Lockwood is available for interview on 0113 220 6356,
email: nicola.lockwood@conference-leeds.com
About Conference Leeds

Conference Leeds is the organisation responsible for promoting meetings and events across Leeds and West Yorkshire. The recently restructured Conference Leeds is now a “super convention bureau” representing almost 250 venues across the area, responsible for marketing the West Yorkshire districts of Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale.

Conference Leeds is a Leeds City Council organisation with funding from Yorkshire Forward, Bradford, Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale Councils.

Conference Leeds can offer a free venue finding service for anyone wanting to host an event in Leeds and West Yorkshire and markets the area through a series of initiatives.
Business tourism is worth over £450million a year in direct expenditure to the Yorkshire economy
About Yorkshire Forward
Conference Leeds is supported by Yorkshire Forward. Yorkshire Forward is the regional development agency for Yorkshire and the Humber, it exists to represent and help generate sustainable business for the region’s tourism industry, an industry worth £4.1billion to the region annually and employing over 165,000 people, making it one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the region. Yorkshire’s goal, as identified in Bold Vision, Bright Future - The Tourism Marketing Strategy for Yorkshire and Humber 2006 - 2010, is to achieve and increase in the value of tourism earnings to the region by 5% per annum to £5.9bn by 2010.