Tony Rogers is a consultant specialising in conferences, business visits and events, and venue/destination marketing and management. Until August 2009 he worked as Project Director for Eventia, the events industry trade association (now EVCOM), and prior to this he spent 19½ years as Chief Executive of the British Association of Conference Destinations (BACD), until December 2008.

Tony is an Honorary Member of the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO), an association he managed for eight years until October 2008. He was a Visiting Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, also for eight years, until August 2015. He also served on the European Board for Destination Marketing Association International (DMAI).

Tony is the author of several books on the international conference and events industry including ‘Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events’ (written jointly with Rob Davidson of MICE Knowledge) and ‘Conferences and Conventions: A Global Industry’, both published by Routledge. A third edition of the latter title was published in 2013, while a second edition of the former was published in late 2015.

He has compiled substantial reports for the UK’s Business Visits & Events Partnership, including two major reports, 'The UK Events Report' (2020) and 'Events Are GREAT Britain' (March 2014). He also authored two studies (jointly with Sally Greenhill of The Right Solution) into subvention and bidding practices (2011 and 2016). He is a member of the BVEP Research Working Group.

Tony’s client list and current/recent projects include:

• A ‘research on research’ study for the Business Visits and Events Partnership, in conjunction with Glenn Bowdin of Leeds Beckett University
• Ongoing research entitled ‘SASiE’ (Size and Scale Index for Events) on the UK exhibitions and events sector for the Association of Event Venues (AEV)
• Major research into Conference Ambassador Programmes globally in partnership with Sue Beverley

Tony has lectured regularly at a number of UK universities including Sheffield Hallam University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Staffordshire University and University College Birmingham.

Tony’s qualifications include: BA Hons (Spanish) (University of Birmingham), Diploma in Education (University of Sheffield), Final Diploma (Spanish)(Institute of Linguists), and a diploma in careers guidance (YESTB).

Richard has over 20 years’ experience in the tourism and business events industries.

He is a freelance consultant specialising in market research and economic impact analysis. He is one of the UK’s foremost MICE researchers. He has led and designed a number of innovative MICE research projects, including: