A highly professional and excellent service with superb attention to detail is helping to attract more and more conferences to Torquay’s Riviera International Conference Centre where business is booming.

This week, the RICC’s busy conference season has come to an end but while the staff enjoy their well deserved summer break, bookings and enquiries continue to flood in.

More and more companies are either booking for the first time or re booking their annual conferences to ensure they benefit from and enjoy the award winning professional service from the RICC’s highly skilled conference team.

Managing director Barry Cole believes the RICC’s Silver Award for Green Tourism is also proving a major persuasive factor for many organisations looking to book venues where ‘green’ issues play an important role

Helping to co-ordinate the gatherings is Simon Jolly, the conference and events manager who explained that in September and October, six major events have already been booked…..and enquiries and bookings have started to come in for 2009 and 2010 which, he says, is all good news for Torbay.

In September, the LGA Rural Conference, the International Organic Geochemistry Conference and the Church of God Conference will be staging their annual events. October brings two Rotary conferences and the Ideal Home Show.

Looking further ahead, the RICC has picked up a high profile conference from Paignton Zoo Environmental Park which is being marketed as the 9th International Conference of Environmental Enrichment. The conference, which is due to be held between May 30th and June 5th 2009, will discuss ways of providing mental and physical stimulation for zoo animals.

The Transport and Salaried Staff Association will also be returning to the RICC in May 2009 for its annual conference. The association has been coming to Torbay for many years and has often praised the superb performance and professionalism of the R.I.C.C. conference team.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers are also making a return visit to the centre in March of next year while the National Association of Advisors of Computers in Education has confirmed it will also be returning to the RICC for the fourth year running next March for its annual conference which will be looking at computers and their important role within education.