Event Summary
Leisure NW 2012: in pictures
Around 150 people attended Place’s first dedicated conference about the leisure sector, held in November at The Light New Brighton, part of Neptune Developments’ successful Marine Point.
The event was sponsored by Neptune Developments, Hill Dickinson and The Light Cinemas.
Click an image to launch gallery. Photographs by Ant Clausen
- Delegates settle in to comfiest cinema seats ever
- Rob Mason from Neptune welcomes people to New Brighton
- Chris Melia of Colliers sets visitor economy scene
- Paul Bolton from Sanguine Hospitality in conversation with Place editor Paul Unger
- Refuel and reflect
- Paul Unger introduces next speaker
- John Sullivan of The Light Cinemas
- Challenging naysayers
- The Light boosted Wirral cinema takings
- Kevin Murray of Whitbread tells the Premier Inn story
- Question time
- Colourful exit
- Marine Point
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