BTW 2011 Calendar of Events
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Friday 19 March 2010
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Best of Britain & Ireland 2010
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Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
09.30- 15.00 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Exhibition |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Whether you're planning your family holiday, weekend away, afternoon escape or just determined to make the most of your leisure time, the adventure starts here! With more than 350 exhibitors, 1000's of destinations, attractions and places to stay you can meet the experts and get the best advice face-to-face. Get your bearings before you go at Best of Britain & Ireland 2010! |
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I Built It and He Runs It: The Ffestiniog Railway
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Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
11.00 am |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Meet the men who built and run the newest narrow gauge railway in Wales. The Welsh Highland railway runs through Snowdonia and the Aberglaslyn Pass - voted the ‘most scenic view in the UK’. Andrew Thomas and Paul Lewin tell their tales of making it possible soon for us to travel by steam all the way from Caernarfon to Blaenau Ffestiniog. |
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Smuggling stories from the Sussex coast
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
13.15 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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A member of the terrible Hawhurst gang dispels our romantic image of smuggling days gone by. A revenue man tells his side of the story and we find out how a wench would hide her wares. |
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The Royal Gardens of Windsor Great Park
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
16.15 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Harvey Stephens, Head Gardener of The Savill Garden and Nick Day from the Crown Estate take you on an illustrated tour of the Royal Gardens of Windsor Great Park. Learn how Royal Patronage has supported the developments within these horticultural gems and enjoy an entertaining and informative look behind the scenes at some of England’s finest Gardens. Plus your chance to quiz Harvey about your own horticultural headaches. |
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English wines: A masterclass for beginners
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
11.00 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Learn all about English wines from the experts at Denbies in Surrey, England’s largest vineyard. Followed by a tasting of the finest English wines and beer. |
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Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
14.00 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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From ancient abbeys, medieval castles and historic houses to museums, distilleries, gardens and folk parks, Eoghan O’Mara Walsh from Ireland’s Heritage Island group helps you make the most of a visit to the island of Ireland. |
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Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
14.00 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Discover Norbury Blue, Surrey’s only handmade cheese and a perfect match for England’s award winning Denbies wine. A fascinating half hour explaining the fine techniques of making cheese and England’s single estate grown wine. Followed by a cheese and wine tasting. |
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Flying Boats and Film Stars
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
12.30 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Margaret O’Shaughnessy from Foynes Flying Boat Museum recaptures the nostalgic era of the flying boats. When courageous pilots navigated the Atlantic with film stars, Foynes in County Limerick was the centre of the aviation world and Irish Coffee was invented to warm up the famous passengers. |
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Ask the experts: 21st century coach holidays
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
13.15 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Your chance to quiz a panel about everything you’ve ever wanted to know about one of the greenest, most convenient ways to enjoy the best of Britain and Ireland. Meet our panel of experts from Shearings Holidays and discover how coach holidays have moved on up over the last hundred years. |
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Welsh Rarebits: unusual places to stay
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
14.45 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Not cheese on toast but tasty and unusual places to stay in Wales. Find out more about the country house hotels, boutique hideaways, historic inns, chic townhouses, luxury spas and top restaurants with rooms that make up the Welsh Rarebits collection of 54 hand-picked gems. |
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Diploma in Travel and Tourism
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
11.30 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Launch |
Audience: |
Domestic Visitors |
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The launch of a new Diploma in Travel and Tourism. Of interest to all teachers, parents, students and everyone who wants to work in tourism today. Keynote speakers include Brian Wisdom, Chief Executive of People1st, Steven Freudmann, Chairman of the Institute of Travel & Tourism and John McEwan Chairman of ABTA. |
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Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
11.45 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Do you know the origin of the phrases straight-laced, loose women or pin money? Learn the intricacies of dressing and the significance of clothing in Elizabethan society as experts from London’s Globe theatre dress a volunteer as Shakespeare’s fair Ophelia. |
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Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
14.45 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Other |
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Domestic Visitors |
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Want to be green and have fun on holiday? Let journalist Richard Hammond, founder of www.greentraveller.co.uk and travel editor of National Geographic’s Green magazine supplement inspire you. Richard’s joined by the greenest of B & B landladies to help answer all your holiday questions. |
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Murders, Mystery and Miss Jane Marple: Agatha Christie entertains
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
16.15 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Category: |
Other |
Audience: |
Domestic Visitors |
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Sneak a preview of this year’s Agatha Christie festival. Find out more about the world’s best-selling fiction author as Torbay prepares to celebrate the Queen of Crime’s 120th anniversary, the 90th anniversary of Poirot and the 80th of Miss Jane Marple. |
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Grasmere Gingerbread: talk and spicy tasting from Cumbria
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
11.45 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Category: |
Other |
Audience: |
Domestic Visitors |
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Only the Gingerbread Man knows the secret recipe of Cumbria’s iconic and tasty delicacy. His wife Joanne Wilson explains how spices and alcohol first came to the region and why Sarah Nelson developed the recipe in the 1850s. |
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Caverns, Chasms and Aillwee Cave
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
15.30 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Category: |
Other |
Audience: |
Domestic Visitors |
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Where can you find a frozen waterfall, Europe’s largest rock garden and the sleeping quarters of long-extinct brown bears? Ireland’s Barbara Falkner reveals some of the Burren’s greatest treasures. |
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More than just the seaside: the UK’s newest Geopark
Venue: |
Grand Hall, Olympia London |
Time: |
12.30 |
Contact Name: |
Melissa Saunders |
Organisation: |
BoB Events Ltd |
Telephone Number: |
020 7424 7890 |
Email Address: |
melissa@bobevents.co.uk |
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Category: |
Other |
Audience: |
Domestic Visitors |
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A fascinating talk explaining what a Geopark is and telling us what we can expect when we visit the English Riviera’s newest natural attraction. |
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Fish and Trips -voyage round our coast
Venue: |
BOBI Olympia |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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Explore the amazing views at the edge of our islands. Learn about the newly accessible coastal footpath and cast your net into the sea to sample the fish caught around our shores. South West Blue Badge Guide Chrissie Le Marchant brings the traditional seaside holiday bang up to date. |
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Mountains, Merlin and Mystery – Celtic countryside
Venue: |
BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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Stone circles, mist-covered mountains, legendary heroes and scenery to set your soul free. You won’t need Giant’s Footsteps to follow Cornish Blue Badge Guide Janie Dymock from John o’ Groats to Lands End via Wales and Ireland.
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England’s Green and Pleasant land
Venue: |
BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registererd Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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The hills and dales, ups and downs, fells and moors, and the rivers running through them – breathe in some fresh air as Heart of England Blue Badge Guide Ian Jelf reveals his favourite places.
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Spoon with a View – fabulous fare from fantastic places
Venue: |
BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Category: |
Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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The perfect spot to sip a scotch overlooking the West Highland Way? Sausage wars between Lincolnshire and Cumbria? The Cherry Ripe trail in Kent and the best National Trust afternoon teas? Geordie Blue Badge Guide Laura Rhodes brings you the answers with a walk bursting with flavours.
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Bricks and Slaughter – if walls could talk
Venue: |
BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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London Blue Badge Guide Clarissa Fell brings to life foul deeds from our violent history with tales of executions, murders, battles and ghosts. By the end of this walk you’ll “remember, remember” to avoid the Scavenger’s Daughter and watch out for the great bear and flying hornet’s nests.
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High and Mighty –the buildings of Britain
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BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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They come in stone, brick, glass, steel and straw. Towers, bridges, palaces, observatories, cathedrals and even a Taj Mahal. It’s definitely not grim up north on a guided walk with Manchester Blue Badge Guide Sue Grimditch.
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Venue: |
BOBI |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Julie Tan |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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We all need a little luxury in our lives. It’s a tough job but someone had to research the luxury BOBI guided walk. Blue Badge Guide Donna Nathan will share the secrets of where to find sumptuous hotels, hand made chocolates, fine wines and whiskies - all the ingredients you need to create special personal experiences and indulge in the very best of Britain and Ireland.
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Walks for teachers of Diploma in Travel & Tourism
Venue: |
BOBI, Olympia |
Time: |
1030, 1300 and 1400. |
Contact Name: |
Philippa Owen |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Category: |
Guided Tour/Walk |
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Other |
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Blue Badge Tourist guides, in collaboration with People 1st, lead pre-booked guided walks for teachers attending the launch of the diploma in Travel and Tourism. |
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Start Up: Travel and Tourism Announcement
Venue: |
London Olympia |
Contact Name: |
Luc Benyon |
Organisation: |
Enterprise UK |
Telephone Number: |
02074308071 |
Email Address: |
luc@enterpriseuk.org |
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Category: |
Competition |
Audience: |
Students |
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Teams from colleges across the UK have been putting together business plans for a locally based tourism business. Start Up: Travel and Tourism, run by Enterpirse UK, aims to increase levels of enterprise amongst T&T students. The best 5 entries will be announced and granted £1000 each, courtesy of Virgin Holidays, to run their business for real! |
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Diploma in Travel & Tourism Launch Event
Venue: |
BoBI, Olympia |
Time: |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Contact Name: |
Gareth Groarke |
Organisation: |
People 1st |
Telephone Number: |
01895 817047 |
Email Address: |
gareth.groarke@people1st.co.uk |
Category: |
Launch |
Audience: |
All |
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Also during the lunch break Enterpise UK will be announcing the short-list for 'Start up: travel and tourism' - an enterprise competition for FE Colleges based on the travel and tourism sector. |
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Mud, sweat and beers -sports for all sorts
Venue: |
BoBI, Olympia |
Time: |
Throughout the day |
Contact Name: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Organisation: |
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides |
Telephone Number: |
020 7403 1115 |
Email Address: |
guild@blue-badge.org.uk |
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Category: |
Guided Tour/Walk |
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All |
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Active spectator, adrenaline junkie or an armchair enthusiast: we have something for everybody on our free guided walk of the active theme stands. Energetic Londoner and Blue Badge Guide Andy Rashleigh is keen to tempt you off your sofa! |
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