Conferences and Venues team scoops Business Tourism Award

03 Dec 2014

The team, based in the Directorate of Estates and Facilities, were the winners in the Business Tourism Award category of the Manchester Tourism Awards 2014

This award acknowledges the huge importance of the meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions sector of the tourism industry. Tourism now generates £6.6bn for the local economy (up nearly £1bn in four years), and attracts over 95 million day-trippers, 10 million over-nighters and 1 million international visitors a year.

The winners of this year's Manchester Tourism Awards 2014 were announced on Tuesday, 2 December at a dinner held in the National Football Museum at Cathedral Gardens.

Pictured left to right are: Brian Fisher (MD Fisher AVC Sponsor), Alison Aucott (Head of Hospitality and Events), Layton Quinton (Marketing Manager) and Andrew Stokes (Chief Executive Visit Manchester).