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The Venue Directory is a constantly evolving organisation and we like to keep you up to date in this area with changes that we have made and feel would benefit the industry. Please take a moment to review any of the recent press releases listed below, and if you would like more information, please follow the link on any of the articles to get the full story.

14 April 2010 - venuedirectory.com makes meeting and event bookings easier more

venuedirectory.com upgrades online services
Online venue data market leader, venuedirectory.com, has upgraded some of the features on its extensive venue finding website (www.venuedirectory.com) in order to further enhance the user experience and increase returns for venues.


26 January 2010 - JP Events Ltd becomes latest GRATIS user more

JP Events Ltd becomes the 21st agency for the venuedirectory.com business system GRATIS

Joanne Penney took the decision to improve efficiency and last week, her conference agency JP Events Ltd, Leeds,  joined a growing number of UK full service venue finding agents to hold a license for venuedirectory.com’s  business data, tracking and accounts system GRATIS. 



03 February 2010 - Q Hotels joins venuedirectory.com more

Venue data industry leaders - venuedirectory.com is proud to announce the addition of award winning hotel group QHotels to its data base of 8,250 venues, utilised by the most powerful and influential event buyers in the UK.



Case Study - Absolute Corporate Events and venuedirectory.com more

Michael Begley, Commercial Director of venuedirectory.com had for a long time recognised Angie Mason’s achievements and good standing within the Meetings, Incentive, Conference and Events industry (MICE).


Case Study - venuedirectory.com and Barceló UK more

"venuedirectory.com generates Barceló UK in excess of £4million of genuine, qualified enquiries in just 18 months", it's a bold statement, read on to find out more.

Barceló UK had initially thought of venuedirectory.com as “just another third party web site”.  But when sales director, Carol Whitney sent hard facts, statistics and campaign proposals – Barceló UK decided to investigate further and invited them in.  They were upfront with venuedirectory.com about the challenge – ‘how can you demonstrate tangible performance for Barceló’s portfolio of twenty one 4-star hotels with 220 meeting rooms for up to 600 delegates?”


26 January 2009 - MIA AGM and Annual Conference 2009 more

MIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE EXCEEDS EXPECTATION

THE MIA’s AGM and Annual Conference has been hailed a great success by its organisers after attracting more than 130 industry professionals. The one-day conference entitled Marketing and Leadership: ‘Strategies for Challenging Times’ was held at Church House Conference Centre in Westminster on Monday 26th January. Delegates were a mix of both MIA members and non-members from across the meetings industry all keen to pick-up tips and advice on how drive their businesses forward in the current challenging trading environment. The conference followed the MIA’s AGM, where the council for the year was elected.

October 2008 - Gratis Online goes live more

VenueDirectory.com launches Gratis, a new bespoke online booking and customer communication software system for agents. This advanced system dramatically improves the communication between the client, agent and venue, making the life of a professional meeting planner considerably more efficient.

October 2008 - Meetings Review interview more

VenueDirectory.com announces the launch of new venue finding services in Richard John's video interview with Commercial Director, Michael Begley at Event UK 


November 2007 - venuedirectory.com buys click4venues.com more

venuedirectory.com announced today the successful purchase of its closest rival, click4venues.com, which is also a publisher of electronic conference venue data. Although only established just over 2 years ago click4venues.com has quickly become a firm favourite with both corporate and agency clients, offering an alternative to venuedirectory.com who has been the dominant force in the market for since 1993.


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