Update from Sally Everton - General Manager
29th March 2018
Sally Everton, Visit Devon General Manager has been driving promotion and encouraging visitors into Devon. Here are her activites from March :
- Following up on 4 day US Buyers Meetings and incentive Showcase - contacts and reports circulated.
- Attended ExploreGB in Newcastle - a two day workshop with one to one pre-scheduled appointments with hosted national and international hosted travel trade buyers , plus networking dinner. Run by VisitBritain. Due to the snow, we sadly had to postpone hosting 16 Japanese buyers to Devon for 3 days post event.
- Attend ITB in Berlin as VisitDevon partnered by England's Seafood Coast. 5 days - 3 days B2B and 2 days B2C. Meetings with press, agents, airlines and consumers.
- Press trips - Sunday Times Great British Weekends Away, focus on North Devon, Oracle Magazine - South Devon, TravMedia Deutschland - all of Devon, Yorkshire Evening Press - family friendly holidays.
- Funding opportunities - DIT's and other avenues.
- Member meetings - numerous as well as developing partnership opportunities.
- MeetGB - for April 19th and 20th. MICE two day workshop with meeting planners and MICE agents from North America and Europe. This event has been sold out now since January, but I still have a window of opportunity should any member like to be involved. Final call.
- Continued meetings with Cornwall and Somerset for joined up working to give a united and stronger SW region for national and international marketing.
- Numerous members and partner meetings who are keen on working closely with us to continue to raise the awareness of the county both domestically and internationally.