PROMOTIONAL FEATURE
destinationprofile Conference Leeds
Conference Leeds, the ‘super convention bureau’ for Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Calderdale recently moved up the Top Ten Cities ranking and was named in the top five meeting destinations in the UK for the fourth year running. Leeds is now the fifth most pop- ular choice for corporate meetings, ahead of cities such as Glasgow, Newcastle-Gateshead and Nottingham. Conference Leeds represents over 280 venues and has a selection of almost 7,000 bedrooms to ensure organisers are spoilt for choice. Venues in Leeds include Leeds Town Hall; the University of Leeds and new venue Aspire; more than a dozen city centre hotels, including the Met Hotel – winner of the Best Business Hotel Award at the 2010 Yorkshire Business Insider Tourism Awards; and The Queens Hotel and City Inn. In the wider region, unique venues include the National Media Museum, the National Coal Mining Museum for England and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, as well as stunning country house hotels including de Vere Oulton Hall Hotel and Rudding Park – recently named Trip Advisers’ Hotel of the Year. With the popularity of the region being at an all time high for conferences and events, the venues are con- stantly refreshing and developing their facilities to pro- vide the most up-to-date equipment for delegates. The recently promoted Leeds United Football Club has just opened the £2million transformation of its conference
and events centre to produce a facility double its previ- ous size.
newly titled Centenary Pavilion is capable of catering for up to 1,600 delegates.
For the future Other developments from the region include a new 200- bedroom Jurys Inn hotel which has recently opened in Bradford city centre; the New Ellington boutique hotel which opened in Leeds in September; and construction has now begun on the £80million Leeds Arena, which will have a capacity for over 12,000. Developments such as this continue to attract a wide
range of high profile conferences and events. Bradford University recently played host to 400 international del- egates at the 10th IEEE International Conferences for Scalable Computing and Communications; the Royal Armouries in Leeds hosted the Lions National Convention for 1,000 delegates in May and one of Leeds’ newest venues, the Rose Bowl, hosted an international Global Events Congress.
Access Leeds, Bradford and West Yorkshire have a fantastic loca- tion in the heart of the UK, right at the junction of the M1 and the M62, so it’s wonderfully accessible for delegates regardless of where in the country they’re travelling from. Leeds is only two hours away from London by train and there is an ever-increasing number of scheduled flights coming into Leeds Bradford International Airport from all over the UK and Europe. E
Since opening in September the 2,000sqm,
CONTACT
Conference Leeds Nicky Lockwood, Manager 0113 220 6351
info@conference-leeds.com www.conference-leeds.com
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