Conferences

Few counties offer such a varied list of options for conferences as Devon, whether it’s simply a city-centre meeting room that’s required, or a modern communications centre for many hundreds, equipped with a full range of state-of-the-art technology.

The county also offers alternative venues for management courses, tucked away in glorious countryside or overlooking stupendous coastline.
There’s an astonishingly large and imaginative list of ideas for effective team-building too, from bushcraft to canoeing, archery to surfing.
Corporate entertaining is also well covered with many conference hotels offering private dining and menus featuring Devon’s superlative food and drink.
And after all the work is done, the county’s beautiful countryside is on the doorstep, waiting to be explored.

For an insight into the what’s new, what’s hot and what’s happening, in terms of doing business in this diverse and beautiful county, please follow the links below:

The New	The Unusual	The City Pads

The Country Set	The Sea Air	The Lap of Luxury	Getting active

Click here to view the full guide to Doing Business in Devon

Suggested venues:

The Harry Hems Centre
The Harry Hems Centre is a versatile venue perfect for your next city centre event. This unique venue can play host a wide variety of social and business functions; ranging from formal conferencing through to intimate private dining, exhibitions and parties.

Palace Hotel
The Palace Hotel, one of Devon’s largest and most prestigious destinations for meetings, conferences and corporate hospitality.  Easily accessible by road, rail and air with considerable parking and a main conference room that can seat up to 350 delegates, this Devon Conference Venue is ideally suited for both large and small conferences alike.

Plymouth Pavilions Conference Venue
The Arena at plymouth Paviions can accommodate events in any number of formats from fully seated with capcities of up to 2,500, banquets for up to 800, or 1800m2 of exhibition space ( with a further 750m2 available on the floor of the ice rink).

 

Riviera International Conference Centre
Torquay’s purpose built conference and exhibition centre, the Riviera International Conference Centre, offers three multi-functional conference, exhibition and banqueting halls plus seven syndicate rooms accommodating from 5 – 1500 delegates, for any type of event: a conference to gala-diner.

 

University of Exeter Conferencing
The University of Exeter, always looks forward to welcoming the great variety of conferences from both the UK and overseas, who enjoy staying on campus during the vacations.  Offering a choice of two stunning campuses, both close to the City centre, railway station and airport, they also provide an excellent base to explore the surrounding areas of Devon.

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International Confex 2010

Visit Devon is delighted to be taking a stand, for the first year, at International Confex 2010 at Earl’s Court, London on 25^th – 28^th February.  Partnered with Exeter & Essential Devon, Visit Devon hope to take advantage of what is set to be one of the busiest years the event has seen.

Confex is ‘the largest and best attended exhibition in the European Events industry’ and is the ‘only exhibition in the UK representing the entireevents industry, housed within 5 different sectors’ (Exhibiting & Events Live, Corporate Events and Parties, UK Venues and Destinations, Overseas Venues and Destinations, The London Area).

If you would like to arrange to speak with a member of the Visit Devon or Exeter & Essential Devon team on one of the 3 days, please email with a time and interest and we can make an appointment.  Otherwise please pop by the stand for a chat, to get some information, a cream tea and to sign up for more information about Devon conferences.

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 Conference Torquay shortlisted for top Meeting Industry Award

Conference Torquay, Torquay’s dedicated conference bureau, has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2010 Meetings and Incentive Travel Industry Awards (M&IT), the oldest established awards programme in the meetings industry.