{"id":1956,"date":"2010-08-24T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2010-08-24T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:31:32","slug":"maximising-the-economic-potential-of-the-city-of-culture-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/08\/maximising-the-economic-potential-of-the-city-of-culture-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximising the Economic potential of the City of Culture 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/derry1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1959\" title=\"derry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whatsonni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/derry1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>The Londonderry Chamber of Commerce in Partnership with Derry City Council, Ilex, and The Strategic Investment Board are calling the Business Community to Action on <strong>Monday 6<sup>th<\/sup> September 2010 in the Waterfoot Hotel at 4.45 p.m. \u2013 7.00 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are seeking to facilitate and examine opportunities of <strong>\u201cMaximising the Economic potential of the City of Culture 2013.\u201d<\/strong> We are seeking a constructive input from the Private Sector on exploring opportunities in terms of investment, upskilling, physical infrastructure, and the building of new audiences and the attraction of new visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The anticipated outputs include an increase of 2,900 jobs over the lifetime of the Regeneration Plan to 2020 with 1,300 in place by 2013.\u00a0 It will lead to a doubling in tourism income and performance.\u00a0 It creates a significant peak in construction activity over the next two years and sustained growth in employment sectors in terms of creative cultural jobs and business services.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunities are tremendous; however the timescale is short so we must move into an action mode in order that we commence the development of our city\u2019s proposition.<\/p>\n<p>The keynote address will be delivered by <strong>US Economic Envoy, Declan Kelly<\/strong> who will lead a panel of experts in giving you an update on the City of Culture, What next and how and where we go from here.<\/p>\n<p>We have had significant interest in this event and therefore we anticipate that there will be high demand for places, which will be offered on a first come first serve basis.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To book your place\/s please contact our Events Manager Christina McCallion on 02871 262379 or email <a title=\"mailto:christina@londonderrychamber.co.uk\" href=\"mailto:christina@londonderrychamber.co.uk\">christina@londonderrychamber.co.uk<\/a> . <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Londonderry Chamber of Commerce in Partnership with Derry City Council, Ilex, and The Strategic Investment Board are calling the Business Community to Action on Monday 6th September 2010 in the Waterfoot Hotel at 4.45 p.m. \u2013 7.00 p.m. We are seeking to facilitate and examine opportunities of \u201cMaximising the Economic potential of the City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2010\/08\/maximising-the-economic-potential-of-the-city-of-culture-2013\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[349,347,832,402,576,833,831,834],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}