Welcome… to the essential portal for online venue data – where delivering enquiries to your venue is guaranteed.

How it works…

Our Products

venuedirectory.com venuedirectory.com is the industry leader for venue data providing the largest data centre of venue information to the UK MICE industry.

Over 17,000 venues in the UK and 38,000 worldwide, venuedirectory.com enables event planners to search, select and enquire on over 200 different criteria.

A sophisticated administration portal enables each venue to instantly update details and track results.

GRATIS

A powerful booking module supplied to event planning

agencies to run their businesses, fed with live data

from venuedirectory.com data centre.

GRATIS event planners can search, enquire, book, track, invoice and report from ONE

exceptional and intelligent system.

Our GRATIS partners

Where your data goes…

A variety of white label sites are powered by venuedirectory.com using the venue data we hold –

updating one automatically updates them all!

What venues are paying for

Your venue data will be:

Fed live to 40,000+ web users & over 250 conference consultants placing meetings & events on a daily basis

Fed live to 41 websites powered by the venuedirectory.com database including leading industry media publications such as Conference News & Exhibition News

Easily seen & chosen for full colour proposals sent to event buyers by our GRATIS Agency Partners (who placed £132million confirmed business in 2014!)

Appearing in User Newsletters & used in demonstrations at user exhibitions we attend throughout the year

You will be able to:

Instantly update your data with new images & details allowing you to control how your entry looks all year round

Add Venue News, Press Releases & Latest Offers at any time so you can react in real time to your changing business needs

Keep track of your enquiries from your desktop via the sophisticated reporting module, in many cases following the booking journey through to conclusion

Receive continual support via your assigned account manager & our admin team who are always on hand to help

A menu of marketing extras

There are a range of extra opportunities to help get your message to the right audience……

Terms & Conditions Apply

Crucially, venues with videos are able to reap the benefits of event planners embedding videos within RFP’s & proposals!

Photography

Virtual Showrounds

Photography can be purchased as a product in its own right or as an “Add On” during the filming of a Virtual Showround.

Screen Grabs Low resolution images taken from film footage of a Virtual Showround video. Perfect for online web use, but not for imagery and print.

Generic Newsletters These focus heavily on reader interest led industry news interspersed with a couple of venue promotions or newsworthy articles. Spaces sell quickly as there are only a few venue spot editorials available – hence less competition!

Themed Newsletters We frequently speak to event planners and discuss their opinions, client enquiries and most importantly – what they would like to see featured in the newsletters. It’s this knowledge that the themed newsletter schedule is collated.

Landing Pages With visits to venuedirectory.com website averaging 45,000 per month, don’t you want to be one of the first venues on view?

Talk to us for further information & prices……

What happens next

1. Once we have received your signed subscription form – our venue administration team gets to work to build your initial venue entry

2. You will be sent your log-in details and a step by step instruction “Welcome

pack” to guide & help you update your venue data and images

3. You will receive a call from your venuedirectory.com account manager who

will tell you how to keep your venue at the top of all your searches

4. You will start to receive telephone and electronic enquiries

Confirm you would like to work with us........

and the rest is simple!

What makes us unique

We have a proven history

We understand the market we operate in

We are innovative in our way of thinking

We believe in the continual development of our products

We work for the benefit of our venues & our users

We will partner you – not just sell to you

We are transparent in our approach

We are accountable in our results

What the industry say’s about us

“The team at the venuedirectory.com understand the meetings and events industry and requirements of an agent perfectly and have responded to a number of challenging issues with imagination and insight.” James Turner – General Manager, Calder, Leeds

“The venue data provided by venuedirectory.com is excellent and gives us the option to store our own additional venue data which is included in our full colour proposals.”

David Sissons - Managing Director, Executive Hotel Services, Swindon

Triple award winners (2012 & 2014) at the Meetings Industry Marketing Awards (MIMA’s)for our Virtual Showround product

Our history in brief 1993 – Established to develop a much needed venue search product and launched it’s first electronic directory for meeting planners after 15 months research

1997 – Introduction of the first internet and CD Rom versions of venuedirectory.com

1999 – Development of venuedirectory.com worldwide begins

2001 – Full version of venuedirectory.com worldwide is released featuring over 18,000 venues in 151 countries

2007 – venuedirectory.com acquires a key competitor Click4venues.com and releases the GRATIS booking software operating system for meeting planners

2008 – venuedirectory.com launches new website and single entry point for venue administration

2009 – Consolidated Reports and improved functionality to enhance user and venue experiences released

2010 - Corporate Web Portal re-launched and venue data distribution extended to 14 different websites

2011 – 3 minute Virtual Showround product launched and featured on www.youtube.com/venuedirectory and CRO tool for venue groups released

2012 - Virtual Showround product wins Gold at the MIMA (Meeting Industry Marketing Awards) Awards as videos displayed on venue listings and in Gratis agent HTML proposals to clients

2014 - venuedirectory.com wins two MIMA Awards for development of the Virtual Showround product.

A risk free investment