Update from Sally Everton - Director
1st July 2019
Categories: Member News
Visit Devon’s Director, Sally Everton, has been busy driving promotion internationally and encouraging visitors to come to Devon.
In June Sally has been working on the following:
DOMESTIC
- Various meetings throughout the month with various members and potential new members about the VisitDevon benefits and being involved
- Meet David Barker, Nick White's replacement at VisitNorthDevon
- Golf Tourism in Devon - continute this relationship to bring Devon (and Cornwall) golf courses together to grow the sector with gofling societies and groups. Golf sector a multi million pound industry
- Partner recruitment for The Meeting Show - working in partnership with English Riviera to stand share.
- Attend Industrial Strategy workshop run by the LEP in Taunton
- Development of 5 Devon promotional films covering 5 themes - working with Soundview Media (ongoing)
- Meetings with various ATP's as requested.
- MIA Meeting in London - working together building a unified strategy for business events alongside the pending tourism sector deal
- Exhibit at The Meeting Show Olympia in London. Good one-to-one appointments and interest for Devon venues. Especially for small association (Torquay) and incentive
- Attend RAW PR event for Devon Food and Drink event to highlight our food tourism offering
- Various press and blogger requests for images and itineraries for visitor experiemces etc
INTERNATIONAL
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Attended the Global Meeting Summit in US - hosted by VisitBritain. One to one appointments over 3 days for incentive, small association and corporate
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Follow up and distribute database for partners to continue to work
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Press enquiries and host NY Post jounalist to Devon
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Conference call with NY VB office re business events developing and growing regions outside London - US target market.
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VisitBritain board meeting for business events ( now have a seat on that board)
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Numerous itineraries requested by German tour operator for 10 + tours running in 2020 for 5 days each
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Itinerary for 20 active OAP's from NZ - in Devon for 10 days in association with Probus
DISCOVER ENGLAND FUND
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Completion for this round of the project on June 30th, so working closely with our project co-ordinator and our research and insight consultant based in the US
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SQW evaluation process for our DEF project -evaluation forms submitted.
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Webinar run by Simon Bradley for those members who missed the workshops in May
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Various conferfence calls with Simon Bradley continuing the activity stateside
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Continue to work with the tour operators /agents and DMC's to get our product onto their selling platforms for late 2019 and 2020
to add an item to your Itinerary basket.
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