Marketing department at Tourism South East

Exhibitions

Exhibitions continue to be an extremely important part of the marketing mix when targeting travel trade industry.

Exhibitions provide the opportunity to:

Meet potential customers face to face

Develop new contacts and renew and build upon relationships with existing contacts

Understand group visitor requirements

Tourism South East organises a number of events throughout the year, and also co-ordinates a regional presence at some others events in order to provide members with a selection of opportunities to showcase their products and services to the trade market and benefit from marketing support and discounted stand rates.

EXCURSIONS 2012

Organised by Tourism South East and Group Organiser Magazine, and supported by Visit London and East of England this annual exhibition is being held on the 28th January 2012. This is the premier one day group travel show in South East England which attracts over 1100 visitors. Read more »

GROUP TRAVEL FAIRS 2012

Organised by Tourism South East, the group travel fairs are three regional events held during February and March, attracting approx 40 exhibitors and 250-300 visitors, dates and venues now confirmed. Read more »

BEST OF BRITAIN & IRELAND

Tourism South East co-ordinates a regional presence at the UK’s official two day exhibition held at the NEC Birmingham in March. Read more »

NEW FOR 2012! – SOUTH WEST GROUP TRAVEL SHOW

Tourism South East has once again joined up in partnership with Group Travel Organiser Magasine to bring the travel trade a brand new event held in the South West of the Country, in Bristol. Find out more at www.southwestgroupshow.com

Previous Events

Group Leisure Travel Trade Show

Tourism South East co-ordinated a joint stand at this two day trade show held at NEC Birmingham in September 2010. This show was organised by Group Leisure Magazine.

Find out more about the show at www.leisureshow.com or contact Elaine Pearce. More Information about stand share arrangements for the 2012 event will be available in due course

What People Say

Working with Tourism South East on the Near Europe Trade campaign has delivered good ROI for Brighton & Hove. By buying into the campaign, not only have we have been able gain from TSE's contacts and knowledge in this important sector, but we have also benefited from inclusion in a number of press trips that has resulted in wonderful media coverage on the city.

John Carmichael, Marketing Manager, VisitBrighton

Our very limited marketing budgets restrict the campaigns we are able to carry out so we often buy in to relevant TSE campaigns targeting our key markets both domestically and overseas. In particular we have worked with TSE on their German Trade campaign, Go! China and domestic campaigns such at Time for Us and Family Fun. The campaigns are very targeted, professionally put together and have a proven return on investment. The partnership certainly works for us and I don't see that changing in the foreseeable future.

Julia White, Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead