Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast is a must-see business destination for 2018 with Northern Ireland’s largest hotel, Hastings Hotels’ Grand Central Hotel Belfast, opening on 18th June 2018. The hotel has announced its first guests will be a group of international delegates attending the prestigious Hosts Global Forum, an influential global Meetings and Incentive Travel trade event being held in Europe for the first time ever.
This is a huge coup for the hotel as it is attended by over 100 of the world’s leading destination management companies and over 100 leading meeting and incentive travel buyers. The choice of Northern Ireland and The Grand Central Hotel demonstrates its growing global appeal to businesses and investors. Booking over £1.5 billion in business revenue worldwide each year, these major meetings and incentive travel buyers will be the first of many cumulating in potentially enormous economic windfalls for the local economy and Northern Ireland in general. The hotel has seen an additional 104 bedrooms bringing the total over 300, perfect to accommodate the Hosts Global Forum and other global scale events. The additional construction has furthermore contributed to the creation of over 150 jobs.