Liverpool's knowledge economy helps clinch top scientific conference for BT Convention Centre
Liverpool's growing knowledge economy has helped secure a key scientific conference for the city, with an estimated economic value of £1.52m.
Up to 800 delegates will attend The World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) at the BT Convention Centre on August 16-19, 2015.
WAAVP is a not-for- profit organisation for scientists who study the parasites of animals.
Inward investment agency The Mersey Partnership’s Liverpool Convention Bureau (LCB) helped bring the conference to the city, after Professors Sandy Trees and Diana Williams from the University of Liverpool, presented the bid at WAAVP’s Buenos Aires conference this year.
LCB manager Carol O’Reilly said: “It is testament to the wealth of expertise in the City Region that international conferences of this calibre are coming to Liverpool – not only because we have world-class conference facilities and an unbeatable destination, but because we have a knowledge economy that is home to leading universities and specialist research centres such as the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the School of Veterinary Science.”
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