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Visit Essex Conference 2022

The Visit Essex conference was held at the Crondon Park on 2nd November 2022. Over a 100 members attended and listened to some very engaging presentations from James Sinclair, Partyman on Getting Customers Easier, Faster and for Less Money and The National Picture from Bernard Donoghue OBE, Director, Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA).

Following Lisa Bone's update on Visit Essex, Erica Gilson talked about the new Essex Film Office who are raising the profile of Essex as a film location by creating a database of locations. Mambers were invited to register their venue as a film location. This new point of contact will be able to deal with all film enquiries, build networks, collaborate with Filming in England and troubleshoot to make Essex film friendly.

Following a fantastic networking lunch we heard about financial support available to businesses from ECC Principal Growth Officer, Kazadi Mwamba and how using an influencer, arranged by Visit Essex, has been a positive experience from Dale Symons, Clayhill Vineyard.

After a very entertaining talk from Jane Malyon on the use of TIkTok to promote her business, some helpful tips and how she went viral with @afternoonteawithjane we had time for a Q&A session to see how Visit Essex could further help members.

If you would like more information you can download the presentations below.

Visit Essex Update - Lisa Bone

The National Picture - Bernard Donahue, AVLA

Working with the Essex Film office - Erica Gilson, Essex County Council

TikTok - Jane Malyon, English Cream Tea Company

Thank you to those who attended, our speakers, Crondon Park for an excellent lunch and Rossi icecream for desert.

Here are just a few of the comments recieved from this very productive day.

^{“Excellent conference, the best I’ve attended in many years of working in tourism. Some first class speakers and a great opportunity to network”. Judith T}

^{"Congratulations on a great conference. Thanks for inviting me, it was so useful hearing the presentations and the data presented and catching up with familiar faces." Juliana D}

^{"I thought it was an excellent conference with not only a very good speaker line up, but what they had to say was relevant and I think extremely useful for the business owners and managers who joined us today." Mary T}

^{"What a great event today! – there was a really positive buzz in the room and the attendees I spoke to were really engaged ! " Erica G}