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Accommodation


Room boom in the city centre G


lasgow’s hotel boom shows no sign of wavering as the number of visitor rooms increases with the opening of the Dakota Deluxe, Scotland’s most


stylish hotel in 2016, in West Regent Street; the Ibis Styles in Miller Street and Travelodge in Queen Street, in the city centre, with a new 180-bed Moxy Hotel, a Marriot brand, in Collegelands expected. Te £30 million Radisson Red, near the SSE


Hydro at Finnieston has also been approved and set to open in 2017. Te hotel will be run and managed by Radisson but Forrest Hotels, a subsidiary for Glasgow-media company Forrest Group, is stepping into hotel investment. Tere are also several investment


opportunities for new hotels at Glasgow Airport in the pipeline. Alastair Rae, Head of BDO’s Audit Practice in


Scotland, said Scotland’s hotels have enjoyed five strong years: “Glasgow has much to celebrate with strong revenue increases over the five years to 2015. Glasgow has seen considerable growth in its events and conference activity.”


Tontine is open for high-growth business


The Tontine innovation centre – the first project under the Glasgow City Region City Deal – has now opened for high- growth business. The Tontine building, once home of the workshop of Scottish inventor James Watt, will showcase what Glasgow and the local authorities in the city-


Tourism revenue Glasgow City Marketing Bureau’s best ever year-end Y


ear-end figures released by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau’s (GCMB) Convention


Bureau have shown the growing value of business tourism to Glasgow’s economy. Working with the SECC, NHS


Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow’s universities and the wider business community, GCMB’s Convention Bureau secured average conference revenue of just over £2.7 million every week between April 1 2015 and March 31 2016 to end the year


on £141 million – the city’s best ever annual return. Glasgow competes globally


through GCMB and city partners to atract conventions business. In the last financial year the city confirmed 513 new international and UK meetings through to 2022, which equates to some 420,000 delegate days. Major conferences included


the European Association of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow; the International Space Planes/Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference at


Programme, which secured 49 per cent of all conference business booked in 2015/16 compared to just 30 per cent two years ago. Managed by GCMB, the


the University of Strathclyde’s Technology Innovation Centre as well as the European Association of International Education Convention and Diabetes UK’s annual congress, both held at the SECC. Te results demonstrate the continuing importance of the Glasgow Conference Ambassador


programme supports in excess of 1,700 active ambassadors – drawn from the city’s academic, scientific, medical and business communities – enabling them to persuade their own sectors and associations to host a conference in Glasgow. Earlier this year Glasgow City


Marketing Bureau was named the UK’s best convention bureau for a remarkable 10th time.


region can do to support innovative industries. The project was funded


by the £1.13bn Glasgow City Region City Deal, which is tasked with delivering 20 infrastructure schemes bringing an estimated 43,000 jobs. The Tontine has three


components: the Centre for Civic Innovation; the Open Innovation Pilot Programme; and DEMOLA, an international platform for the co-creation of new products or services. The Tontine will host high- quality and flexible workspaces for high-growth companies, linked to the city’s universities.


The UCI Track Cycling World Cup


The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow is hosting the opening round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup on 4-6 November. It kicks off the 2016/17 UCI Track Cycling World


Cup series followed by Apeldoorn (Netherlands), Cali (Colombia) and Los Angeles (USA). Glasgow last welcomed the event in


November 2012 when Laura Trott clinched a double gold.


The Dakota Deluxe in West Regent Street


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