London 2012 blog

We held our second accommodation seminar on Thursday 24th April for hoteliers and accommodation suppliers. We have over 13,000 student rooms signed up across London universities at Games time so we decided to hold the seminar at Imperial College London - we have several hundred rooms reserved there for the media and technical officials in 2012.

So, with invites sent out we waited for the acceptances to roll in. 172 people later and we were in business.

The seminars are held to engage the hospitality industry and explain how London will operate in 2012. We had presentations from our workforce and security teams: they will play an important part in the smooth running of the accommodation function during the Games. Paul Deighton, our Chief Executive, talked about construction progress on the Olympic Park and out vision for 2012.

Participants also commented on how useful it was to hear from the Culture team about their plans for the Cultural Olympiad and from Visa about their hospitality programme. Visit London came in to explain their plans to attract future large sporting events and congresses to the capital.

As the afternoon ended everyone agreed the seminar had been a great success.