Trentham Event Sows Seeds for Group Bookings.
6/12/2025
Group Travel Roadshow at Award Winning UK Attraction.
A group travel event for the tourism industry proved to be a blooming success this week in Staffordshire.
National tour and holiday company Daish’s Holidays https://www.daishs.com/
– twelve hotels in eleven UK seaside resorts - got together with Steve Reed
Tourism Ltd of Hampshire to help cultivate group bookings. And one of the
country’s leading destinations, Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent, provided
the perfect backdrop to the Group Travel Roadshow there. https://trentham.co.uk/
And group travel organisers and coach and tour
operators met face to face with a crop of tourism businesses, some from as far
afield as Devon, Dorset and Cumbria. These included for example:
Chester Zoo; The Lowry Salford Quays; Ena Mill Retail;
Ullswater Steamers; The Royal Airforce Museum Cosford; Elizabeth Gaskell House
in Manchester; Classic Lodges Hotels; Malvern Hills; the Yarn Market Hotel of
Dunster; The Olympus Restaurant of Bolton; World of Wedgwood; East Lancs
Railway; Coastal Cruises of Poole; Michels and Taylor Hotels and the West
Midlands Safari Park.
World of Wedgwood, https://www.worldofwedgwood.com/ nearby to Trentham Gardens, also welcomed
showcase visits for some of the delegates. The Stoke-on-Trent Doubletree by
Hilton Hotel [once the home of Josiah Wedgwood] hosted a number of the tour
planners the night before the event.
Some of the attendees and tour planners gave their
verdicts on the Group Roadshow:
This was a superb show arranged by Steve Reed Tourism
and in a great location. It seemed to be well attended by a good mix of
exhibitors and buyers – and certainly there was plenty of business to be
secured and put into motion. I found it to be a successful day.’ Shauna
Potts of Simply Groups.
It was such a great show and thanks for hosting us at
Trentham Gardens. We’ll definitely look into attending the next Roadshow in
Harrogate during November. Charlotte Howle, Chester Zoo.
‘This was time well spent networking with new and
existing contacts whilst experiencing some top attractions that we will
consider for future tours. We found the whole day really productive.’ Ian
Marsh, Holiday Club Staycation.
The next Group Travel Roadshow takes place at the Old
Swan Hotel in Harrogate on Monday 17th November commencing at 10.30.
Anyone interested in attending or exhibiting should email steve@stevereedtourism.co.uk.
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