Lancashire Attraction Hosts Group Travel Forum North.
9/25/2017
Event Boosts Group Bookings.
Samlesbury Hall in Lancashire was the venue for the Group Travel Forum North event last week.
Arranged by Hampshire based UK travel trade
specialists Steve Reed Tourism Ltd in conjunction with the Last Drop Village
Hotel of Bolton; the Holiday Inn Express Burnley; Kittywake Cruises of Wigan and
Ena Mill Retail of Atherton in Greater Manchester, the Forum brought coach and
tour operators and group travel organisers together with the travel trade.
40 exhibitors – hotels, attractions and destinations –
met tour planners to discuss group bookings and tour itineraries.
The event was an opportunity to meet face to face and
arrange tours, holidays, breaks and excursions – all under one roof.
And the 700 year old venue of Samlesbury Hall –
complete with its own resident witch – provided the perfect setting for this
business-generating event.
Steve Reed is the MD of Steve Reed Tourism
Ltd:
‘The Group Travel Forum North was ideal for helping to
boost group bookings. The event gave the sellers of group products the ideal
chance to meet with real and active group buyers from all over the UK in the
historic setting of wonderful Samlesbury Hall.
‘Our next Forum – at the famous Brooklands Museum in
Weybridge, Surrey takes place on Monday 30th April and we are now
gearing up for that to help ensure it too is a big success, says Steve.
Many of the tour planners gave the event the thumbs
up. Mark Anderson of Roadmark Travel in Sussex had this to say:
‘Thank you for another well
organised and useful Steve Reed Tourism event, showcasing some of the top group
hotels and attractions. I renewed some old acquaintances and made several
valuable new contacts. One such was Kittywake Cruises, who laid on a
fascinating and very enjoyable cruise for us. I thought too that historic
Samlesbury Hall was an ideal venue for the group travel event, and another
attraction that we will be visiting in the future, says Mark.
Group travel Organiser John Flynn of
Role On Travel also enjoyed the event:
‘A
huge thank you for all your hard work putting together the Group Travel
Forum-North at Samlesbury Hall. It was a fabulous day with the added bonus of a
wonderful witch. We made some connections that were tailor made for our group,
especially Evans Hotel, Llandudno, Warner Hotels Boddelwydan, Browsholme Hall,
Leighton Hall and definitely Ena Mill.’
Ends.
For
further information contact:
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Ena
Mill – Jonathan Addis or Simon Yates jon@enamill.co.uksimon@enamill.co.uk Tel: 01942 882
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Samlesbury
Hall – Lauren Catterall lauren@samlesburyhall.co.uk; Tel: 01284 812010
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Kittywake
Cruises – Sandi Carrington bookings@kittywake.co.uk Tel: 01942 836885
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Last
Drop Hotel – Gerry McGee gerry.mcgee@lastdropvillage.co.uk Tel: 01204 873500
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Steve
Reed Tourism – Steve Reed steve@stevereedtourism.co.uk Tel: 01420 560
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