Conference guide

The VisitYork4Meetings Conference and Events guide is designed to promote York as an innovative conference destination with a professional image and modern feel -  appealing to a diverse range of conference buyers and organisers.

The guide is dedicated to inspire MICE industry professionals to book their events in York.

Typically, business event visitors to York spends twice as much per trip than leisure visitors, address seasonality and offer enormous potential for return leisure visits. In York, business tourism contributes £142m to the local economy attracting just under 1 million business visitors and 20,000 events per year, offering huge earning potential to tourism businesses in the city.

The Guide is a fantastic way to promote your organisation to the business tourism industry and offers enormous potential in generating additional income.

It incorporates:

• Hotels, Unique and Historic Venues, Academic Venues and Support Service Providers
• Everything York and the surrounding area has to offer as a conference and events destination
• Maps and information highlighting the region’s accessibility from across the UK and Europe
• York’s Corporate Hospitality, Team Building and Incentive Travel offering

4,000 copies will be distributed and promoted through the following channels:

• Principal UK conference trade exhibitions
• Direct mail promoting York as a conference destination to our dedicated database of conference organisers. This will include the corporate and associations’ sectors as well as intermediaries
• In response to enquiries generated through VisitYork4Meetings enquiry channels and as fulfilment for other specific promotional activities undertaken
• A downloadable e-brochure version will also be available on www.visityork4meetings.com and via social media channels.

Interested in advertising in the 2019 Mini Guide? Please contact Ryan Harper, Publications Coordinator, ryan.harper@makeityork.com