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

• Attended the Global Meeting Summit in US - hosted by VisitBritain.  One to one appointments over 3 days for incentive, small association and corporate 

• Follow up and distribute database for partners to continue to work

• Press enquiries and host NY Post jounalist to Devon

• Conference call with NY VB office re business events developing and growing regions outside London - US target market.

• VisitBritain board meeting for business events ( now have a seat on that board)

• Numerous itineraries requested by German tour operator for 10 + tours running in 2020 for 5 days each

• Itinerary for 20 active OAP's from NZ - in Devon for 10 days in association with Probus

DISCOVER ENGLAND FUND

• 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

• SQW evaluation process for our DEF project -evaluation forms submitted.

• Webinar run by Simon Bradley for those members who missed the workshops in May

• Various conferfence calls with Simon Bradley continuing the activity stateside

• Continue to work with the tour operators /agents and DMC's to get our product onto their selling platforms for late 2019 and 2020