Speakers at the hlpd forum 2023
Ricky Dent
UK Operations Manager | Landal GreenParks
Operational Innovation
A look across our pan-European business to showcase how innovation is at the forefront of our operational excellence. How can we make 3.2 million guests feel unique, and create an individual memory for each one?
Edward Pope
Founder | Watatunga Wildlife Reserve
Thinking Outside the Box
Join Ed to hear how he has transformed a 170-acre site from mono-culture agriculture to a multi-award-winning wildlife reserve and visitor attraction. Confident that the location could become a world-class conservation site for deer, antelope and birds, Ed’s passion for this core mission has lead to Watatunga becoming one of the U.K.’s leading small visitor attractions.
Having opened in August 2020, the way in which visitors interact with the site has needed to be flexible. Yet, thanks to the deeply embedded theme of conservation throughout, the business has been able to adapt and to become an unforgettable destination.
Paul Shoebridge
Business Development Director | Hoseasons
The Importance of Consumer and Market Insights when Developing Leading Holiday Rental Accommodation
Exploring the important role wider marker data and consumer insights play in shaping the development of holiday rental accommodation. Looking to diversify land for holiday rental accommodation? Hoseasons will share the dos and don’ts when developing successful holiday rental accommodation and discuss key real-time insights driving innovation in today’s holiday rental accommodation sector. As well as reviewing the significance consumer insight learnings have in creating valuable holiday experiences for guests and, in turn, helping operators maximise their revenue.
Peregrine Mears
Director | Peregrine Mears Architects
Development and Diversification Opportunities for Rural Landowners
If you own land or buildings, you may have underutilised assets! But how do you make those assets work for you to generate income or capital revenue in the holiday and leisure sector? What alternative uses can rural land and buildings be put to? How do you go about such a project? How do you get planning permission? This seminar aims to answer those questions in principle by referring to a range of example projects.
Mike Slack
Head of Leisure | Bluestone Resorts Ltd
Bluestone Resorts Ltd - Our Approach
Our approach at Bluestone, focusing around our People, Planet & Product. Bluestones Free Range Manifesto encourages guests to take an interest in the natural environment around them and to teach them that fun can be found without a screen. It’s about seeing a puddle and running straight through it, checking for signs of wildlife, and using imagination to create playtimes.
Bluestone is a chance to experience a stomping ground filled with greenery for the first time. It might also be their first chance for a trip to the seaside to splash and feel the sand between their tiny toes.
Dave Rossington
Project Architect | Powell Dobson Architects
Wildfox Resorts – Afan Valley: Redefining Adventure, Leisure, and Wellness Tourism
The inaugural Wildfox Resort at Afan Valley aims to be the first of the next generation of leisure and holiday resorts, providing a wide array of adventure and wellness facilities with guided activities, integrated amongst high quality accommodation. Wildfox Resorts Group, established in 2021, has 3 core values – people, planet and pleasure. Powell Dobson Architects were brought on board to help shape those values into a legible and accessible resort that is both distinctive and sensitive to the natural beauty of the surrounding Welsh landscape. This design-focussed presentation will offer a glimpse of how the design and architecture will deliver the Wildfox Vision.
Michael Hoenigmann
Managing Director | Jupiter Play & Leisure Ltd
Butlin’s SKYPARK – Raising the Bar for Play Provision in UK Holiday Parks