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Burleigh Court Conference Centre And Hotel
Burleigh Court Conference Centre and Hotel is a four-star hotel and conference centre located on Loughborough University campus. Opened in April 1991, Burleigh Court Conference Centre and Hotel has 225 bedrooms and 26 meeting rooms. Imago Venues Burleigh Court is run by Imago Venues, the managers of conference & meeting facilities and hotels for Loughborough University via a wholly owned subsidiary company called imago@Loughborough Ltd. Other venues include Holywell Park Conference Centre, and The Link Hotel. London 2012 and sport Burleigh Court hosted Team GB as the official preparation camp for the London 2012 games. The hotel has regularly been the venue for the Charnwood Sports Awards, including the last time the Awards were staged in 2017. Awards and accreditations Burleigh Court has won a number of awards including Large Hotel of the Year at the VisitEngland VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England. Before 1999 it was known as the English Tourist B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loughborough University
Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when Loughborough Technical Institute began with a focus on skills directly applicable in the wider world. In March 2013, the university announced it had bought the former broadcast centre at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as a second campus. It belonged to the 1994 Group of smaller research universities until the group dissolved in November 2013. Its annual income for 2020–21 was £308.9 million, of which £35.5 million was from research grants and contracts. History The university traces its roots back to 1909 when a Technical Institute was founded in the town centre. There followed a period of rapid expansion, during which it was renamed Loughborough College and development of the present campus began. In early years, efforts were made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holywell Park Conference Centre
Holywell Park Conference Centre is modern conference facility located on Loughborough University Campus offering 300 m2 of exhibition space and accommodating up to 450 people. It was officially opened in April 2004 by The Duke of Edinburgh. History Loughborough University purchased the National Grid plc technology park on Ashby Road Loughborough in 2003 for £35.5 million. Holywell Park The technology park was renamed Holywell Park and is home to a mix of Loughborough University academic schools and enterprise companies. The park was built on the site of Holywell Hall, an area that was thought to contain a small hermitage, fishponds and moat. The Hall itself is now the location of a Grade II listed building Holywell Farm. Conference Centre The Conference Centre is housed in the Sir Denis Rooke Building on Holywell Park, named after the British industrialist and engineer who was the Chancellor of Loughborough University from 1989 to 2003. The venue is operated by the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team GB
Team GB is the brand name used since 1999 by the British Olympic Association (BOA) for their British Olympic team. The brand was developed after the nation's poor performance in the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is now a trademark of the BOA. It is meant to unify the team as one body, irrespective of each member athlete's particular sport. Officially, the team is the "Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team", although athletes from Northern Ireland may opt to compete under the auspices of the Olympic Federation of Ireland instead. History The British Olympic Association's director of marketing, Marzena Bogdanowicz, felt that the official and abbreviated names of the Great Britain Olympic team were a mouthful. She first thought of the 'Team GB' concept in 1996 or 1997, and said: "I went to the games in 1996 and the logo at the time was just the lion and the rings, but we weren't strong enough as a brand to just be a lion and the rings. So coming back I wanted to find s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VisitEngland
VisitEngland is the official tourist board for England. Before 1999 it was known as the English Tourist Board and between 1999 and 2009 as the English Tourism Council. In 2003, it merged with the British Tourist Authority to form VisitBritain before relaunching as a separate corporate body in 2009. VisitEngland's stated mission is to "build England's tourism product, raise Britain’s profile worldwide, increase the volume and value of tourism exports and develop England and Britain’s visitor economy". Quality assessment schemes The VisitEngland accommodation assessment schemes were run under licence by Quality in Tourism from 2012 to 2017, when the AA took on the license. The scheme issues quality awards to holiday accommodation, hotel, bed and breakfast, self catering holiday cottages and others. See also * Tourism in England * VisitBritain * Northern Ireland Tourist Board * VisitScotland * Visit Wales Visit Wales ( cy, Croeso Cymru) is the Welsh Government's tourism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
