This was the theme for our Great Yarmouth breakfast on Thursday 3rd April where 55 businesses attended, they heard from Brand Manager at Visit Norfolk, Pete Waters and Great Yarmouth Business Grosvenor Casino who gave delegates an insight into the presence tourism has in Norfolk and specifically, Great Yarmouth.
The breakfast started in the usual way with plenty of networking opportunities both before delegates sat down and once they were at their tables, with icebreakers and new or previous connections being made. Plus a Safari move later on for them to meet a whole new table of potential contacts.
Event sponsors, Norse Commercial Services, started us off by giving delegates a brief history of the company and also what they are currently doing to help boost tourism and keep the area of Great Yarmouth tidy and enticing.
After Breakfast it was then onto the main part of the event which started off with a talk from Pete Waters about all that Norfolk has to offer and some of the challenges they and the county are facing and the ways in which we can work together to overcome them. The main aim of Pete’s talk was to address the fact that we need to boost tourism all year round not just in the summer and boast about what we have on offer as a county in the winter.
Trevor Saunders then gave a business case to how businesses in Great Yarmouth are working together to increase visitors to the area but also what can be done even better in the future. He explained how for them they only tend to get visitors in the evening and they need to work out ways to get people through the door all day, again emphasising the whole theme of Norfolk is open 24/7 all year round.
They event ended with a short Q&A and more networking, with delegates leaving with a very positive attitude.
Our next Great Yarmouth breakfast is on Thursday 10th September.
