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Yorkshire Business Tourism Awards 2008
Maybe you’re staring at the ceiling in your business hotel room counting sheep at the end of a glitzy business hotel dinner. Or perhaps you’re getting into your car having seen your last colleague off at the end of a brainstorming day when you really got everyone enthused about plans for the year ahead.
Either way, it’s probably never occurred to you just how much this activity brings to the Yorkshire economy. But it’s huge. Yorkshire South Tourism, an industry umbrella body, reckons that business tourism is currently bringing in £216m each year to the Sheffield city economy alone.
And that’s just one reason why we launched the Insider Yorkshire Business Tourism Awards. We wanted to recognise those organisations and venues that really were upping the ante in bringing more business into Yorkshire.
Given that we had 106 entries in our very first awards, it was clear we had hit a rich seam of candidates. So it was hardly surprising that the awards themselves, held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, should have attracted a crowd of well over 200, all keen to find out who had met the exacting standards to win, and to celebrate what Yorkshire business tourism has been able to achieve.
The audience were not alone in their enthusiasm either. Paul Gudgin, a former director of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, who has recently been appointed visiting professor of tourism at Leeds Met University, gave them all some encouragement in outlining his first impressions of the region. Yorkshire, he said, had a great offer that could easily be built on. Both the winners and nominees would surely agree.
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