Visit Chester & Cheshire has welcomed £1.35million in delegate economic benefit in three months.
The figure is made up of bookings for meetings, conferences and events made through Visit Chester & Cheshire's business tourism team, between September and November this year.
Key events in the region over this period include a number of highly sought after association events including the Association of British Riding Schools' annual conference held at Shrigley Hall Hotel and the Professional Gardener's Guild at Moorside Grange Hotel & Spa.
In addition to this Chester and Cheshire has also hosted an AGM, exhibition and dinner for the Lifting Equipment Engineering Association at Chester Racecourse and an itinerary day as part of the International Garden Centre Association's conference in Manchester including sightseeing in Chester and a visit to Peckforton Castle.
Linda Porter-Cohen from the Association of British Riding Schools comments: "The Business Tourism Team at Visit Chester & Cheshire does exactly as it says on the label! The staff are friendly and reliable, giving good sound advice. Their help in choosing a venue was first class, and was followed by sensible suggestions for all the many other aspects required for the smooth running of a conference. I know our conference would not have been the success it was without the guidance of this team, and I would not hesitate to highly recommend their services."
Fiona Brown, Business Tourism Account Manager at Visit Chester & Cheshire comments: "Our business tourism team is committed to promoting the county as an attractive meetings and events destination. As such, it is fantastic to be able to announce such strong bookings and economic benefit for the area in the last quarter of 2009. With such positive feedback from these events, we look forward to welcoming more associations and businesses to the area in 2010".
The news follows the announcement of a massive £85million investment in Chester and Cheshire's conference and events product in 2009 and a further planned investment of £60million, according to a membership survey from Visit Chester & Cheshire's business tourism team.
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