ACE - Association for Conferences and Events

The Tourism Alliance annual review of tourism statistics brings together the headline tourism figures from the three main national tourism surveys and combines them with key information from other studies and publications to provide an over view of the size and value of tourism to the UK economy.

It's time to make your final bids on the M&IT auction at www.meetpieauction.com

Some of the auction lots are listed below but the full list of prizes can be found here.

• A fabulous trip to Scotland including accommodation, seaplane flight and Master Blender session,  donated by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau
• One night VIP stay for two at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2012, donated by Montreux Music & Convention Centre
• An overnight stay in London, donated by The Savoy, London
• Two nights stay in Paris, donated by Hotel Plaza Athenee Paris

This auction will raise funds for Save the Children,in the build up to The Meetings & Incentive Travel Industry Awards, where we aim to raise fifty thousand pounds to help train 20 health workers in Mozambique in life-saving newborn care practices, and equip two health facilities, enabling them to provide newborns and mothers with adequate treatment.  

There are still a handful of seats available for the M&IT Awards!

Opinion:  Up to 75% of preferred meetings programmes within the industry are not ‘fit for purpose’; dynamic buying model is ‘best practice’ - Zibrant

Increasingly short lead times for meetings and events mean that many preferred meetings programmes are now potentially not ‘fit for purpose’ just a few months after they have been put in place,

With 70 exceptional chefs in the kitchen (including Raymond Blanc, Brian Turner, John Williams and many more-see below) a team of 80 amazing hospitality staff and managers from Chamberlains Events and Off to Work, the gastronomic feast of the year came together for one night only.