Conference Guide

The Visit York Conference and Events guide showcases York as an innovative conference destination; old meets new in York’s cosmopolitan centre where ancient medieval architecture and contemporary culture come together with modern developments to provide inspiring possibilities for business events.

Click here to download a booking form for the 2020/2021 guide.

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 2017, business tourism generated an estimated 15,400 business events in York. These were attended by 730k business event visitors who accounted for an estimated spend of £124.4m at venues and in the local destination, offering huge earning potential to tourism businesses in the city.

The Conference 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.visityork.org/conference and via social media channels.

Check out the 2020 York Conference Guide ►