BACD services

We can offer the following services to members and non-members:

Room hire

A newly refurbished meeting/training room seating up to 16 delegates in the heart of Birmingham City Centre. Click here for more information.

Consultancy

A leading authority on the Conference and Meetings Industry, Tony Rogers, Chief Executive of BACD and Executive Director of the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO), can help with all aspects of research, presentations and projects on a consultancy basis.  Click here to read his biography.  For further information or to make an enquiry contact Tony on 0121-212-1400 or email: tonyr@bacd.org.uk. 

Research

BACD Commissions the ‘British Conference Venues Survey’ which seeks to measure the key characteristics of the UK conference market from a venue perspective and also provide the best possible estimates for volume and value of the market. The report is produced annually and to order a copy of the 2007 report click here.

Publications

BACD produces the ‘British Destinations Directory’ an annual publication detailing narrative, pictorial, statistical summary of the facilities and attractions of each of its member destinations.  It also produces a series of factsheets on the industry and has copies of other reports/papers for sale.  For further information and an order form click here.

Education and training

A continuing programme of short courses and events allowing members and non-members to gain new skills and ideas and exchange information.  New courses in Venue Marketing and Event Management are now available and coming soon in association with Destination Marketing Associaton International (DMAI) are ‘Destination Positioning’ and ‘Branding’ (1st-2nd October 2007) and ‘Sales Academy I’ (March 2008).  For information on all our current and future training courses click here.