\nThe second A Place in the Sun Live event of the year has taken place at Birmingham\u2019s NEC and once again delivered a strong consumer audience.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe three day event, from 2nd-4th October, saw one of the show\u2019s highest ever ratio of visitors to exhibitors and confirmed the cautious optimism being felt across the industry.\n<\/p>\n
\nAlisdair MacDonald of exhibitor Polar GM said: ‘This has been the most productive exhibition we have attended in the UK over the last two years.\n<\/p>\n
\nNumbers of course are down but the quality of clients now visiting is excellent and they\u2019re generally serious buyers.\n<\/p>\n
\nWe took a number of reservation deposits on the Thailand Koh Lanta project we are marketing. An extremely professional, well run, targeted exhibition.’\n<\/p>\n
\nAndy Bridge, MD of organizers APITS Ltd, was pleased with the attendance of 3,891 visitors (excluding exhibitors and staff) and said it matched the floor plan.\n<\/p>\n
\n‘You can only have as many stands at the show as the visitor footfall will satisfy,’ he said.\n<\/p>\n
\n ‘We knew the likely audience size and designed a floor plan to reflect it.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe result was that 108 exhibitors had almost 4,000 visitors to share between them and that works; it works for the audience because the show is not too big or overwhelming, it works for exhibitors because there is less competition and plenty of visitors to go round.’Exhibitor David Palmer of Perfect Getaways agreed: ‘As a small to medium-sized company we are extremely prudent on advertising costs. APITS Live has proved to be excellent value for money.’\n<\/p>\n
\nThe quality of visitors was key to the weekend\u2019s success, with many exhibitors saying that the NEC audience was now better prepared and further ahead with their plans to purchase overseas.\n<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Pat Tan of Prudential Palms ‘attendance at the show exceeded our expectations and the quality of the visitors was excellent. Many were ready to buy.\n<\/p>\n
\n‘TM Real Estate Group\u2019s Jeremy Aston said: ‘The exhibition has been better in terms of quality of client and in numbers than we expected’, while Graham Pyle of Countryside international saw visitors of ‘excellent quality’.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe most popular stands were for properties in the US, Spain and Turkey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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