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Weetwood Hall Conference Centre & Hotel, Leeds received a Highly Commended award at the 2008 Venuemasters Marketing awards, held recently at Imago, Loughborough. VENUEMASTERS is a consortium which promotes facilities of over 80 UK academic venues to event planners and other customers.
The presentation was part of the Venuemasters annual conference, acknowledging best marketing practice in three different categories: brochure, website and promotional activity.
Weetwood Hall, which is owned by the University of Leeds and operates as an independent, four star, all year round conference venue was competing for the website award in the prestigious company of venues such as Kingston University, Durham University, Keele Conferences and Nottingham Conferences. The entries were reviewed by industry professional judges on the following criteria:
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how user friendly the website is
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how informative and original it is
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how the design was used to maximise the impact and
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how effective the website has been so far
Peter Chubb, General Manager of Weetwood Hall, The introduction of the new website has been a tremendous success with a marked increase in the number of unique visitors, pages viewed and the length of time spent on the site".
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