All-Energy and Glasgow's SEC takes Scottish Thistle Award for best business event
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The UK’s largest renewable energy exhibition and conference, All-Energy, and its venue, Glasgow’s Scottish Event Campus (SEC), collected the title for best business event at the tourism industry's own "Oscars" night, the Scottish Thistle Awards.
The category celebrates the importance of business events in showcasing Scotland’s world-class credentials as a destination for congresses, meetings and incentives programmes from around the world.
Accepting the award on behalf of both organisations Dan Thurlow, SEC’s director of exhibition sales, said: “This is a very special year for All-Energy, the UK’s largest renewable and low-carbon energy exhibition and conference; and for Glasgow and SEC. It marks the 20th All-Energy anniversary event; and SEC hosting the UN’s COP26. Both are incubators for vital decarbonisation solutions and thus catalysts for opportunity.”
The Scottish Thistle Awards are led by Scotland’s national tourism organisation, VisitScotland, and supported by a panel of industry representatives including the Aberdeen City and Shire Tourism Awards, Highlands & Islands Tourism Awards, the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA), the Hospitality Industry Trust Scotland, Scotland Food and Drink, Scottish Tourism Alliance, the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, sportscotland and Wild Scotland.
All-Energy’s 2020 conference will be held on May 13 and 14 at SEC, alongside sister event Dcarbonise 2020. The 2019 show attracted total attendance of 7871 over the two days and included some 250 exhibiting companies and more than 600 speakers and saw the launch of the co-located Dcarbonise.
Free registration for all elements of the two-day event is now open at www.all-energy.co.uk and www.dcarbonise.com for all with relevant business/professional interests.
Jonathan Heastie, a portfolio director at Reed Exhibitions, which owns and organises All-Energy, said: “Winning this award is a marvellous accolade for the show as we enter the visitor promotion phase of our campaign.
“Being held just six months before the United Nations' COP26 Climate Change Conference, and at the same venue, our duo of events will point the way with the emphasis in the conference programmes for both featuring the pathway to the net-zero emissions.
“Exhibitor levels for All-Energy are well ahead of the 2019 figure at this stage ensuring that, as ever, the buzz, the enthusiasm and the sense of business being done will be tangible.”
