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THE CORPORATE HOSPITALITY MAGAZINE FOR THE MIDLANDS, NORTH OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & NORTH WALES The Cutlers’ Hall Sheffield A Venue on the Up A City on the Move LOCATION: YORKSHIRE & NORTH EAST FUTURE FOOD AIR BNBUSINESS WIN A Stay Over at Mercure Hull Grange Park PLUS Event Tech Expo Expert Incentive Travel INSIDE.. CHS LEEDS PREVIEW ISSUE 77 • MAR 2020 HOSPITALITYANDEVENTSNORTH.COM NEWS, FEATURES, VENUES, IDEAS, TEAM BUILDING COMPETITIONS & LOTS MORE WELL-CONNECTED EVENTS TOGETHER WE ARE BRILLIANT Consider us an extended part of your team. Pitch ACC Liverpool for your next event and experience an inter-connected residential event campus in one of the most well-connected conference destinations in the industry. With global and national transport links, the opportunities are infinite. Let’s connect and show you the possibilities. www.accliverpool.com | 0151 703 7260 | [email protected] A Warm Welcome Contents MARCH 2020 53 Sustainability continues to be a announcement of as the area’s key focus for the industry in 2020 key industry event expands to H&E North front page feature: as organisations explore further Birmingham later in the year. We Real Steel ways to lessen their impact on also find out if Airbnb is muscling Sheffield’s Cutlers’ Hall is a venue steeped in the environment. But it’s not just in on the business travel market history and grandeur. H&E North sees if they power and fuel in the spotlight, and take a look at some cool switching to a vegan diet can incentive travel ideas. Plus how make the cut. decrease your footprint by about winning a stayover in Hull, one and a half tons of carbon Yorkshire’s own former UK City dioxide emissions annually. But of Culture! 08 will northern #eventprofs be As ever all the latest news and able to satisfy their clients with views are contained within your Sowing the Seeds an entirely plant-based menu? copy of H&E North, and a whole Are plant-based foods the future of event catering? Also in this edition, a look lot more is online too! Follow us around Yorkshire and the North on Twitter at @HospitalityNrth East’s top venues, team building and link up with us on LinkedIn! 12 ideas and supply chains await. As always we preview the next Focus on: Yorkshire CHS show in Leeds, following the Elliot Landy. Covering north to south right through to the east HOSPITALITYANDEVENTSNORTH.COM and west ridings, H&E North’s annual tour of @HOSPITALITYNRTH Yorkshire’s venue market proves there’s plenty of choice up north. Publisher Design Elliot Landy A daX m GreaslX ey 36 Features Editor Zoë Green Evangeline Spachis Charlotte Lee Competition Senior Account Manager Win a stay for two at Mercure Hull Grange Editorial Assistant Park Hotel! James Wilson Adam Freedman Contributors 66 ABPCO Jonny Ross Welcome to Sheffield Lee Ali ConferenceLeeds Visit York 4 Meetings Worlds Away Lex Butler NewcastleGateshead Welcome to Yorkshire Incentive travel doesn’t have to be a boring Jane Longhurst Initiative Visit Hull & East Yorkshire golf trip for the executive board. H&E North chooses new locations to refresh your business Copyright JLife Ltd. All contents are copyright, all rights are reserved. No part of the trip commitments. contents can be reproduced without permission from the publisher. No responsibility can be accepted for inaccurate information supplied, & content supplied does not necessarily represent the opinion of the publisher. 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The In Brief buyers polled stated they would have more Manchester museum is built on the site money to spend on travel in 2020, compared of the oldest surviving passenger railway Industry Welcomes £30,000 to 33% in 2019. There was substantial uplift stations and the world’s first inter-city on 2019 figures – 52% expected to manage railway warehouse. Significant investment Migrant Salary Threshold more trips (up 33%); 41% reported airline has transformed the Grade I listed building Rethink budget rises (up 10%); and 45% of buyers which retains original period features for anticipate bigger accommodation spend use by external events. From April, the The Prime Minister’s U-turn on the £30,000 (up 16%). top floor of the railway warehouse dating minimum salary threshold for migrants back to 1830 will now be able to host is being welcomed by the hospitality David Chapple, Business Travel Show Group conferences, dinners, drinks receptions and events sector. Under his plans for an Event Director said: “Last year’s survey and product launches for up to Australian-style points-based immigration showed a downturn in numbers across 200 guests. system, Boris Johnson is seeking to scrap the board – with fewer buyers predicting the proposed minimum salary put forward airline, accommodation and overall budget Chris Hanley, Group Event Manager at the by his predecessor, Theresa May. increases. This was unsurprising with Brexit on Science and Industry Museum, said: “We the horizon and businesses holding back on are delighted to be able to offer the 1830 Last year’s annual HBAA Brexit survey both decision-making and spending. These Warehouse as an innovative and cultural reported that 18.7% of members, figures appear to show a return to form and option for events. The railway station was comprising hotels, conference venues are back on par (if not slightly above) 2018’s life-changing for Manchester and we are and agencies, said that Brexit has had statistics, which is very encouraging news for proud to be able to open the top-floor a major impact on their ability to recruit the industry.” of this incredible space to host standout staff. Lex Butler, Chair of the HBAA events and occasions over the next commented: “The industry is working hard three years.” to recruit more young people to build careers in this industry but, in the near future, we shall not be able to replace New Warwick Conferences all the migrant workers. Too often the Director Looks to Fresh fact that staff are relatively low paid is immediately equated with low-skilled. In Partnerships this industry many staff with high levels of responsibility and skill would not pass this test.” However, migrants’ earnings may still be taken into consideration as part of their application to live and work in the UK, alongside criteria including qualifications, occupation, English proficiency, and whether they would be willing to work in particular areas of the country. “Unless this minimum salary barrier is removed,” continued Lex, “the UK will struggle to maintain its position as a world-class destination for business and leisure tourism.” Warwick Conferences, the events arm of University of Warwick, has appointed Paul Bartlett as Director of Conferences. Bartlett Emirates Old Trafford Appoints originally joined Warwick Conferences as Sales Director in 2018, and in his new New Operations Director role, plans to use his connections with Emirates Old Trafford, the home of the university to combine its multimillion- Lancashire Cricket, has confirmed that pound sports facilities with the not-for-profit Steve Davies has been appointed as its company’s events offering. He is also seeking new Operations Director. Davies joins from to develop Warwick Conferences’ growing Merlin Entertainments where he has spent list of partnerships with local businesses, over 14 years heading operations at popular which already includes Warwick Castle, visitor attractions including Alton Towers and Warwick Arts Centre and many of Stratford- Madame Tussaud’s London. He replaces upon-Avon’s historical landmarks. Anthony Mundy who departed the club in December 2019 after seven years at the Davies said: “We are always looking to stadium.