Category: UK

Amsterdam RAI won the Best International Venue award at the 6th annual Exhibition News Awards on Thursday 29 March in London. The Excellence Awards are conferred annually on businesses that make outstanding contributions to the exhibition industry.

A new £15 million city centre hotel in London has been given the go-ahead by council planners. The proposed development at the site of the former Heaven and Hell nightclub in Anne Street is expected to create 60 permanent jobs. According to the company behind the scheme, it will be operated under the Hilton Garden Inn brand by the world-famous Hilton leisure group.

CEME Conference Centre, the East London event and meeting venue, has achieved the meetings Industry recognised kite mark, Accredited in Meetings (AIM).

Following Highgate House’s Head Chef, Lee Gaskins, being crowned ‘Chef of the Year’ at the most recent prestigious Carlsberg UK Food & Drink awards, Northamptonshire conference hotel Highgate House is now the proud employer of the awards’ Young Chef of the Year – Leighanne Harrison!

Nottingham Conference Centre has come top in an industry survey from academic venue consortium Venuemasters. Designed to provide a benchmark of service and response levels, the survey was conducted with 89 Venuemasters members and a sample of ten hotels and conference centres in January. Venues were scored in four categories – each representing a different element of the enquiry handling process, from the initial contact to following up the enquiry. Nottingham Conference Centre scored top marks in two of the categories and was rated very highly in the rest.

The five star Wyndham Bayscape Hotel will be situated in the tallest tower in Wales and is due to be opened in 2013. The venue will have 200 bedrooms and 3600 sqm of event space.

The Doubletree by Hilton Newcastle Airport opened in January and is just a few steps away from the terminals. The property has 179 bedrooms and meeting rooms to hold up to 150.

Sundial Group has just been announced ‘Best Value for Money’ Meeting Venue group for a fourth consistent year. Sundial Group has consistently been placed at the top for ‘Value for Money’ since this category was created in BDRC Continental’s ‘VenueVerdict’ survey in 2008.