Contemporary conferences in an historical setting

Your conference, meeting or event is unique and it deserves a unique destination and venue.  York combines exceptional transport links with unusual venues, high quality hotels, stately homes and stunning modern complexes. 2000 years of history provide a stunning backdrop to your 21st century event .  With amazing venues from every century since 1300 you cannot help but find the perfect option for your conference, meeting, dinner or event in York.

York wins European Tourism City of the Year

York has been crowned Europe’s top city destination after scooping an international award. Launched by European Cities Marketing (ECM), the first ever European Cities Tourism Awards.

The new awards scheme aims to celebrate world-class performance and to provide a benchmark for best practice among Europe’s tourism cities and tourism organisations. In line with its efforts to strive for world-class performance European Cities Marketing launched the first European Cities Tourism Annual Awards to recognise excellence and professionalism both among Europe’s tourism cities and their tourism organisations.

In addition to the awards’ criteria, the judges were looking for cities that demonstrated a strong customer focus in all their activities, sustainable tourism development and performance based on economy, efficiency and effectiveness.

The panel of judges, Chaired by Paul Dubrule, Co-founder of the Accor Group and Chairman of Maison de la France said, ‘York has unique characteristics, such as its 2,000 years of history, a variety of world-class attractions, distinctive shopping and festivals and events – all of which make it a destination well worth visiting, and on a year-round basis too.’