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From left: Travel Trade Executive Helen Cutting; Web Executive Holly Oakland; and tour operators arrive in the region with Greater Anglia on a VEE & Partners familiarisation trip
Travel Trade, taking the East to the world As members of UK Inbound, VEE & Partners are developing a Travel Trade strategy. With VisitBritain we have arranged online and face-to-face Taking England To The World workshops. In March we brought 12 international tour operators on a familiarisation trip, including stays at The Maid’s Head Hotel, Norwich and Bedford Lodge, Newmarket. Recently our Travel Trade Executive Helen Cutting represented Suffolk and Norfolk at VisitBritain’s Destination Britain North America Trade Event in San Francisco where she presented to more than 40 buyers. Discover Newmarket’s Tracey Harding was our representative at the UK Inbound conference in Belfast. We will be attending the Britain and Ireland Marketplace event in London in January and British Travel & Tourism Show at the NEC in March.
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