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 Expotel has been awarded ‘all services’ status on the new Buying Solutions Travel Management Services Framework Agreement. Expotel, the largest hotel provider on the framework, will now provide full travel management solutions adding air, ferry, rail, serviced accommodation and ancillary travel management to its existing responsibilities for hotel accommodation and conference and event bookings. The framework runs for four years to 2014. Read >
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Birmingham businesses will be working and playing hard this Christmas, despite a tough trading year for companies. 
The time-honoured Royal Ascot racecourse in England, which is usually the venue for some of the world's most famous thoroughbred horse races, was converted into a showcase for versatile motorbikes ahead of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour event in London this weekend. 
Leading UK conference and event management company Glasgows, launches its pioneering low cost EventCast service with online demo events. 
Following on from the success of International Confex, Southport Conferences will once again exhibit alongside stand partners, Liverpool Convention Bureau and ACC Liverpool, to create a major regional presence at this year’s Event UK. 
In a bid to attract more business tourism to Yorkshire, York and Scarborough Conferences hosted a number of high profile conference buyers to the Welcome to Yorkshire Ebor festival last week, including a mix of associations, corporate businesses and societies. 
Hull & East Yorkshire (HEY) Conferences have won direct bookings as a result of the Twenty10 Venue Showcase which was organised by the team to highlight what the region had to offer to local event planners. 
The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre (QEIICC) is launching ‘The Essentials Conference Day Delegate Rate’ (DDR), starting at £55 per person. This rate is variable according to the size of the event, but this DDR is available for events from 110 to 1300 and compliments the Smaller Meetings Day Delegate Rate the Centre launched earlier this year. 
London’s Mermaid - one of the capital’s most charismatic and atmospheric venues -
has launched two distinctive new options for event organisers. One capitalises on its remarkable popularity for Christmas events, and the other provides a unique opportunity for ‘on-stage’ gatherings, using the venue’s heritage as a much-loved theatre. 
This Halloween, those looking for the ultimate in corporate scares need look no further than the Alton Towers Resort. The ideal venue to terrorise team members and trick colleagues, the Resort will be offering the chance to attend the ‘World’s Scariest Conference’ throughout October. 
Admissions to England’s visitor attractions rose by 5 per cent in 2009 according to VisitEngland’s Annual Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions released today. Last year, overnight domestic holiday trips to England increased significantly, a boost that has clearly benefited attractions around the whole country. 
