Worldwide Conference Centre Wales (ICC Wales) has secured various notable repeat enterprise wins for 2023, because it establishes itself because the UK’s most enjoyable new occasions venue and brings a major increase to the South Wales customer financial system.
The disruptions of the pandemic meant ICC Wales solely noticed its first full 12 months of buying and selling in 2022, having launched in September 2019. The venue’s heat Welsh welcome, distinctive woodland location, modern assembly rooms flooded with pure daylight, and internationally acclaimed domestically sourced delicacies has been extensively praised by shoppers utilizing the intensive and versatile services for the primary time, with many losing no time in reserving once more for 2023 and past.
Repeat shoppers embody Comedian Con Wales, which welcomed greater than 4,000 excited guests in August and is about to develop in 2023, driving £1.7m in financial influence.
Different occasions returning within the new 12 months embody Howdens and their Golden Rooster Awards; James Murden’s “Viewers With” occasions; the Nationwide Farm Sights Community’s (NFAN) commerce exhibition present; and the Church in Wales Governing Physique.
One other repeat shopper is the College of South Wales (USW), who’ve contracted 5 days of Commencement Ceremonies every year from 2023 till 2028 which ICC Wales secured as a part of an in depth tender course of. Final 12 months alone, ICC Wales hosted 33 of USW’s Commencement Ceremonies that had been postponed from the pandemic, welcoming greater than 16,500 graduates into the College’s alumni. The Open College will even maintain its Autumn 2023 Commencement Ceremony on the venue.
Danielle Bounds, Gross sales Director, ICC Wales commented:
“The actual fact we have now secured such a robust degree of repeat enterprise, in addition to some main new shoppers for 2023, is testomony to the standard of our services, the dedication and enthusiasm of our workforce, and the calibre of the occasions that we ship. It has been unimaginable to welcome so many assorted occasions throughout our first full 12 months of buying and selling and to obtain a lot incredible suggestions on how ICC Wales has offered the proper venue and exceeded shopper expectations.
“Our concentrate on sustainability and delegate wellbeing, and the chance ICC Wales offers for out of doors house to be integrated into occasions, signifies that we are able to meet, and infrequently exceed, the necessities of the growing variety of occasion planners for whom these standards are important. We’re trying ahead to persevering with to construct on this success into 2023 and past.”
Louise Casella, Director, The Open College in Wales commented:
“Since Spring 2022, ICC Wales has been the venue for our Wales commencement ceremony. It’s our graduates’ likelihood to have fun their success with their household, associates and tutors, and we wish it to be a day they’ll always remember. Now we have college students from all throughout Wales and additional afield, so having such an accessible venue as ICC Wales is nice. Now we have additionally discovered it helpful to have a devoted occasions workforce at ICC Wales, who assist us run issues as easily as potential.”
