1. Charlotte Tregedeon Business Tourism Update

2. Business Tourism Focus Groups
Marketing/PR & Fam Visits
Lisa Duncan, Sandy Park
City Ambassadors/Funding
Alex Penn, Event Exeter, Exeter University
City Experience
Tamsyn Parsons, Mercure Hotel Group
Transport
Jemma Hodgkins, Exeter City Futures

3. visitexeter.com/conferences stats
Conference Pages went live in Nov 2017
Since then traffic has increased by 217%
Google Analytics for January 2018
860 page views
591 unique page views
Google Search Engine results –
visitexeter website ranking in the first page of google for conferencing search phrases:
Conferences in Exeter
Conference venues in Exeter

4. visitexeter.com/conferences stats
The Visit Exeter website is ranked 2nd in google for the search term ‘conferences in Exeter’
Exeter University
Visit Exeter
Exeter City Council – which links through to Visit Exeter
Sandy Park

5. What's next …….
Focus groups meetings will be taking place in early March
Marketing activities planned to promote conferencing facilities
Looking to develop a venue finding service
Improve Exeter’s profile with conferences/uk.org.uk
Improve search engine optimisation on our pages
Meet GB - March
The Meeting Show - June
Various exhibitions throughout the year with our members