VisitScotland Business Events wins ICCA Best Marketing Award at 57th ICCA Congress

ICCA announced VisitScotland Business Events as the winner of this year’s prestigious ICCA Best Marketing Award at the Closing Ceremony of the 57th ICCA Congress on Wednesday 14 November 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

VisitScotland Business Events impressed the judges and ICCA Congress delegates with their campaign’s unique mobilisation of online storytelling and focus on impact beyond immediate financial return.

Congratulations also go out to the other two finalists of the ICCA Best Marketing Award 2018: The Hague Convention Bureau and Serbian Convention Bureau.

All three finalists were put through their paces during a detailed evaluation by an expert panel which included past winners, competing in front of a live audience made up of industry colleagues and competitors during a dedicated plenary session at the ICCA Congress in Dubai yesterday. Each finalist had fifteen minutes to convince the judges and audience before final voting began.

Chairman of the Best Marketing Award judging panel, Patrick Delaney of SoolNua, said: “VisitScotland created a campaign that was legendary in scope and vision while being cost-effective and grounded in excellent execution. The campaign showed extraordinary vision in bringing together the local community/stakeholders from all over Scotland in an engaging and emotional way to communicate a common vision the power and impact of meetings.”

VisitScotland’s digital campaign, “Scotland Where Ideas Become Legend”, was designed to distinguish Scotland as a unique destination for international association meetings with opportunities for associations across multiple disciplines. VisitScotland’s ongoing social media campaign #IdeasBecomeLegend unifies participating organisations from inside and outside the country’s business events industry under a single national message: Scotland contributes to shaping the modern world. Showcasing Scottish innovation in 12 sectors, the participating cities and regions have a dedicated week to issue content showcasing their strengths in each sector and what they have to offer to international associations.

Neil Brownlee, Head of Business Events at VisitScotland Business Events, said: “We are honoured to get this recognition from our global peers and the judging panel. It’s a real endorsement of trying to pull together a strategy on a national level for Scotland to join everything together for the cities and the regions. We’re thrilled to bits, and there’s no higher endorsement than winning the ICCA Best Marketing Award.”

The Best Marketing Award session has become one of the most eagerly anticipated highlights of each year’s ICCA Congress, with the winner traditionally announced during the Closing Ceremony.ç

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