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The events industry charity partnership, Events for Namuwongo, has announced that in one evening the industry raised £100,000. This astonishing total was achieved during Namuwongo Night, held on Thursday 2nd May 2013 at the Novotel London West.

Launching the Tourism Alliance’s new 2013 Tourism Statistics Review in Parliament, it was revealed that total tourism expenditure in the UK increased by 6.9% from £125bn to £134bn.

This increase of £9bn was sufficient to generate 180,000 new jobs for the UK economy – over one third of all additional jobs generated in the UK last year.

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BVEP Welcomes Visitbritain's Strategy For Business Tourism But Calls For More Detail

The Business Visits and Events Partnership (BVEP) has welcomed the inclusion of market plans for business tourism as part of VisitBritain's three year strategy to grow inbound tourism to Britain.

The strategy, which was launched by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Maria Miller MP, also acknowledges that business tourism is a significant component of international tourism to the UK and is performing strongly. It states that events boost Britain's image overseas and business travellers are a ready audience for activity that promotes an extension of their stay in Britain for leisure activity.

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Would you like to join Leeds for this FREE event?

Leeds Hotels & Venues are celebrating the great city of Leeds 13 - 16th June 2013 and would like you to join usfor what is going to be one of the UK's biggest ever familiarisation trips.