Nottingham Venues has been named as a finalist in two categories at the 2024/25 Nottinghamshire Tourism Awards. The company has been shortlisted in the Business Events Venue of the Year category and its 4* hotel, The Orchard Hotel and Restaurant, is a finalist in the Hotel of the Year category.
Organised by Visit Nottinghamshire, The Nottinghamshire Tourism Awards 2024/25, celebrate excellence across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s tourism, leisure, culture, and hospitality sectors.
The awards serve as a platform to showcase best practices and acknowledge the organisations and individuals making significant contributions to the region’s tourism industry. From B&Bs and major tourist attractions to city centre hotels and business event venues, the diverse award categories reflect the breadth of Nottinghamshire’s tourism landscape.
Nottingham Venues locations, which include The Orchard Hotel and Restaurant, the East Midlands Conference Centre, the Jubilee Hotel and Conferences and Campus Venues are all located within the grounds of the University of Nottingham campus and welcome tens of thousands of business and leisure guests each year.
The company has invested significantly into all venues over recent years to ensure they continue to provide an excellent guest experience, which is one of the reasons it has been shortlisted in the Business Events Venue of the Year category.
Stephanie Moss-Pearce, Director of Marketing at Nottingham Venues, said: “We have focussed on enhancing the guest experience at all venues over recent years, both in terms of refurbishing areas of all venues and investing in our staff teams. This has led to improvements in levels of customer satisfaction, staff engagement and, in turn, repeat bookings which we are all thrilled with.
“Being shortlisted in two categories is amazing recognition of our hard work and we are all keeping our fingers crossed that we are successful on the night.”
Built in 2012, The Orchard Hotel and Restaurant features 203 en-suite rooms, 4 state-of-the-art meeting rooms, fitness facilities and a contemporary brasserie. The hotel was built to exceptional sustainability standards and has achieved the ECOSmart Silver Award and is rated BREEAM Excellent.
The hotel is located adjacent to the East Midlands Conference Centre and both venues work in partnership to provide an unrivalled guest experience for a range of events including corporate meetings, conferences, exhibitions, team-building events, training workshops and weddings.
The partnership between all locations that make up Nottingham Venues also supports the University of Nottingham Sport, enabling large scale international sports events to take place at the University, such as this year’s Touch Rugby World Cup. This is building The University of Nottingham’s reputation as a destination for major sports events which brings thousands of tourists to Nottingham each year.
Christine Bailey, Assistant Director of Sport at The University of Nottingham, said: “We have worked closely in partnership with Nottingham Venues to establish and embed University of Nottingham’s reputation as a destination for major sports events and we are really proud to see this culminate in hosting the Touch World Cup 2024 – the largest sports event to come to the city of Nottingham.
“Together with England Touch and the Federation of International Touch, we had over 10,000 visitors to the city, generating in excess of £5m economic impact locally as well as raising the profile of the sport to encourage future generations to take part. We’re delighted to see all of this recognised in the upcoming Nottinghamshire Tourism Awards.”
The winners of The Nottinghamshire Tourism Awards will be revealed at the Awards Dinner taking place on 20th March 2025 at The East Midlands Conference Centre.
