Fifty North East based academics and professionals who have helped bring £65m worth of conferences to the region were thanked with an exclusive dinner, 24 October, at The Sage Gateshead to celebrate 10 years of the NewcastleGateshead Conference Ambassador Programme (CAP).
The dinner was hosted by the bureau and supported by Benchmark Communications, an event management company based in the destination.
In the 10 years since it formed, the CAP has helped secure more than 120 events welcoming 37,000 delegates; it has grown from a standing start and reached 200 ambassadors within its first five years; it has continued to grow at an encouraging rate and now stands at almost 1,000 members.
