Velvet sponsor 2009 York Tourism Awards

Velvet Software are proud sponsors of this year's York Tourism Awards hosted at the prestigious York Race Course. This year's awards were presented by BBC's Look North host, Harry Gration.

The annual high profile event was organised by Visit York's Stuart Blackmore. Stuart's meticulous organisation made for a seamless event - the timing, awards ceremony, food and post event entertainment were all excellent. Velvet Software provided their professional event registration software, reg.istrations.com to Stuart and his team in 2008 to allow sponsors, attendees and organising members of Visit York to book their tickets for the event.

"Stuart had limited staffing resources and a relatively complex structure of attendees each of whom were able to book differing numbers of tickets at various rates", said Velvet's Tim Clark. Stuart attended a one day workshop during which he not only completed various sample exercises but also set up his complete event by the end of the day. "It's so easy to use", commented Stuart, "it's great! It does everything I need and more in one easy system - this was going to be such a headache to manage manually using spreadsheets".

 Following the main awards and dinner, Stuart had organsied a charity casino and live music - both of which were absolutely excellent.

Visit York are looking to use Velvet's reg.istrations.com system for other events. They join a number of growing UK destinations who are offering registration services in addition to accommodation booking and venue finding services using Velvet's other on-line systems.

Velvet's Tim Clark (pictured right) would like to thank the team at Visit York for their hospitality on the evening and looks forward to continuing to support them in the future.

Our congratulations go to all those who made it to the finals and in particular to the individual category winners. Of note were the York Marriott who won awards in no fewer than three categories including best sales office.