Tony is a recognised authority on the marketing of destinations and venues for conferences, meetings, conventions, and other business events. He also has substantial experience and expertise in conference and event planning and conference education and training. He has presented on these and related topics at conferences across the UK and in a number of other countries. The latter have included:

• Universidad Europea de Madrid – Madrid, Spain, 2009

 

• Union of International Associations (UIA) member meeting – Brussels, Belgium, 2007

• ‘Meetings Africa’ conference – Johannesburg, South Africa, 2007

• Business tourism conference – Athens, Greece, 2007 and 2006

• Tourism Malaysia conference – Malaysia, 2006

• OPC annual conference – El Puerto de Santa María, Spain, 2006

 

• HAPCO annual conference – Athens, Greece 2005

• Business tourism conference – Monaco, 2003

In the UK Tony has regularly presented at seminars run at the ‘International Confex’ exhibition and at ‘Event UK’. He will be chairing a seminar at ‘International Confex 2010’ entitled ‘What’s happening – are we on the road to recovery?’ which will take place on Thursday 25 February 2010 from 14.15 to 15.00 hours at Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

Tony is speaking at a series of Meetings Industry Association (MIA) networking events in 2010 on the subject of ‘Winning More Meetings Business – A Partnership Approach’. These will be held on 19 April (London),  14 June (Leicester), 6 September (Manchester). Further details can be viewed at: www.mia-uk.org

He has organised 1-day and 2-day training courses in venue/destination marketing in Tees Valley, Herefordshire, and North Wales, and contributed to such courses run in Inverness and the Highlands of Scotland. He has also been a speaker at AGMs and seminars convened by Shakespeare Country (2008), Kent Conference Bureau (2008), Bournemouth International Conference Bureau (2007), Bath Hotel and Conference Association (2006 and 2008), Conference Lancashire (2003).

He was a speaker at the hotel marketing conference held in York (June 2007) and at a one-day conference on business tourism organised jointly by the Tourism Management Institute and the British Association of Conference Destinations held in London (May 2008). He presented at the institute of economic development annual conference in Bournemouth (October 2009).

He regularly presents at a number of UK universities, including:

• Leeds Metropolitan University

• University College Birmingham

• Sheffield Hallam University

• University of Wales Institute Cardiff

He has also spoken at the University of Staffordshire, University of Paisley, London Metropolitan University, and at various colleges in England.