Tourism Vancouver’s Meeting and Convention Sales team welcomed key customers to Vancouver last week for the BestCities Client Workshop, July 27 to 31.
BestCities is a global convention bureau alliance that unites top convention destinations providing clients with continuity and the highest professional standards as their conferences move around the world between BestCities partners.
The eight BestCities partners are Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dubai, Edinburgh, Melbourne, San Juan, Singapore and Vancouver.
The BestCities Client Workshop began last Tuesday just as approximately 2,600 delegates from Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) World Education Congress wrapped up their four-day conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Last week’s two events combined to put Vancouver on show to thousands of influential meetings industry clients with the potential to bring high-yield future convention business to the city.
During the four-day BestCities event, the partner cities and 10 executives from eight major associations in Europe and North America came together for educational forums, networking and to learn about Vancouver’s world class meeting and convention opportunities.
“We are extremely pleased that Vancouver had the opportunity to host the BestCities Client Workshop,” said Randy Zupanski, general manager of the Fairmont Pacific Rim, host hotel for the event.
“The workshop brings key decision makers to Vancouver who hold annual conferences around the world with anywhere from 400 to 4,000 delegates. We are optimistic that now they’ve experienced our destination, they will want to host their next meeting in Vancouver.”
“Tourism Vancouver has been a member of BestCities Global Alliance since its inception in 1999,” noted Richard Yore, director of Meeting and Convention Sales for Tourism Vancouver.
“Our organization’s longtime association with BestCities gives us another edge in the marketplace – not only is our city beautiful and home to a world-class convention centre, hotels and attractions, we also have the BestCities quality assurance guarantee which tells meeting planners that our convention bureau comes with the highest professional standards in destination expertise, bid assistance, convention planning, building attendance and onsite event servicing.”
Feedback from clients attending Vancouver’s BestCities workshop was overwhelmingly positive. Two letters are included below.
Tourism Vancouver’s focus is on building exceptional customer relationships with meeting planners, travel influencers, travel media and independent tourists. The Meeting and Convention Sales team actively promotes Vancouver worldwide as a premiere event destination and services hundreds of meetings each year.
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