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around 100 meetings a year and has used a wide variety of venues throughout the city to suit all occasions, from small training seminars, which it can host at its offices overlooking George Square, to venues that either showcase its members’ activities or environments that stimulate debate and networking. Tese have included creative venues like Te Centre for Contemporary Arts and Citizens Teatre as well as ‘behind the scenes’ meetings at Glasgow Airport or STV’s studios. Some of the more unusual events have been hosted at the Japanese teppanyaki restaurant Sapporo, where its chefs entertained guests with their amazing knife skills, to a medical- themed meeting at the Hunterian Museum with guests surrounded with jars of preserved organs. In addition to hosting its two


main awards dinners during the year, Glasgow Chamber is also involved in other larger conferences, such as the recent All-Energy exhibition and conference and the forthcoming Scotland Build 2016, the country’s leading construction expo. Richard Muir, Deputy Chief


”We see our involvement in and support for these UK-wide conferences and exhibitions as an important role in promoting procurement business opportunities to our members”


Executive at Glasgow Chamber, said: “We see our involvement in and support for these UK-wide conferences and exhibitions as an important role in promoting procurement business opportunities to our members. “Tere’s huge potential for


our members in winning new business and being involved with events like Scotland Build at the SECC in November helps to expand our reach.” On the back of increasing


tourism and growth in conferences, Glasgow’s hotel capacity continues to expand, with four new hotels opening in 2016 – collectively adding more than 500 rooms to the city’s stock. Next year, Motel One, one of Scotland’s largest new single site hotel developments will provide 374 new rooms, and together with the


opening of a new Radisson Red, will take the number of new rooms created in Glasgow in less than three years to more than 1,500. It’s not just the city that atracts


meetings and conferences, as there are many venues in the surrounding countryside too. Te 145-room Glynhill Hotel is ideally located on the outskirts of Glasgow with excellent motorway links and easy access to Glasgow Airport. Te Glynhill is a multifunctional business hub that can accommodate anything from two, up to four hundred delegates. Te hotel’s integrated conference and banqueting suites offer state-of-the art AV equipment, along with several break-out rooms and first-class catering to complement events. Glasgow’s connectivity is also a major influence when it comes to


conference organisers choosing the city as a location for international events. Glasgow Airport is home to some of the world’s leading airlines servicing Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, and the city’s motorway links and direct rail routes mean that visitors from the rest of the UK can easily travel to the Glasgow. Commenting on Glasgow’s


growing strength as an international conference centre, Aileen Crawford, Head of Conventions at Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, said: “Glasgow’s capability and credibility in the international meetings marketplace is stronger than ever before. As well as atracting smaller niche and specialist conferences, Glasgow’s strategy of targeting major congresses, which atract thousands of international delegates and deliver significant economic impact, has positioned us in the top 30 conference cities in the world. “It is testament to how hard


the city and industry partners have worked together to maximise our share of international conventions business.”


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