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December 2011

Hospitality Sheffield members join forces to recruit new business for the city

Hospitality Sheffield members recently joined forces with Sheffield Convention Bureau to deliver a conference sales drive for the city in an effort to secure Sheffield’s next phase of conferences, events and exhibitions.

 Sales representatives from hotels and venues across the city came together to nurture the many leads gained by the Sheffield Convention Bureau at exhibitions they have attended over the last twelve months including Square Meal, CONFEX and CONFEC Green.

Gemma Bradshaw, Business Tourism Manager at the Sheffield Convention Bureau, commented: “Over 300 calls were made by the team with some great leads established. The aim is to raise the profile of Sheffield’s venue portfolio, ensuring that the city is at the front of the queue when conference and event organisers are planning where their events will be hosted.

“We are currently working on events as far ahead as 2017 so this is certainly no short term measure. This is about helping to secure the long term future of Sheffield’s conference venues, hotels, bars and restaurants which are worth millions of pounds to the city’s economy.”

Ian Slater, Chair of Hospitality Sheffield who have supported the drive, added: “The value of business tourism to the city’s economy should not be underestimated. This is the first time that the Convention Bureau and the city’s Sales Managers have undertaken a joint Sales Day and I hope that it will be the first of many.”

Participating venues included the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Sheffield International Venues, Jurys Inn, Kenwood Hall, the Hilton, Copthorne, Park Inn Sheffield, Jurys Inn, Leopold Hotel, Conference 21 and Double Tree by Hilton.

October 2011

City awards celebrate the unsung heroes of Sheffield’s
hotels and venues

Sheffield’s hotels and venues staff were celebrated recently at the Hospitality Sheffield annual dinner and awards ceremony. 

The annual awards, which culminated in a glittering gala dinner hosted by BBC personality Tom Ingall at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, celebrate the huge contribution that hospitality workers make to the city’s economy. According to recent figures, the sector is worth as much as £500m annually.

During the evening a prize raffle was drawn with the money raised, just short of £1000, being split between Sheffield charities - the Cathedral Archer Project and Freeman College.

Ian Slater, Chair of Hospitality Sheffield and General Manager of Park Inn Sheffield, said:

“I would like to offer my congratulations to all of our winners and runners up. As with every year, we have received an extremely high calibre of entries for the 2011 awards, making a very difficult job for the judges. It’s a privilege to work with people that enhance the visitor experience of the city and the awards truly reflect the quality of employees we have here in Sheffield.”

The awards are organised by Hospitality Sheffield, a consortium of 30 of the city’s hotels and venues, which creates strategic collaboration between businesses in order to drive the excellence agenda in service standards, raise the profile of Sheffield as a business and leisure tourism destination, and lobby on relevant political issues.

The awards plays a central role in its work by spotlighting and celebrating the people that work so hard to make visitor’s experiences of Sheffield special and memorable.

And despite the economic downturn, the event continued to get strong support from local businesses and industry suppliers, with House of Townend, Mercury Taxis, Fortay Media and CVC acting as sponsors for the awards and demonstrating how much they value the sector.