Laura Wilson
Head of Convention Bureau
Meet Laura.
Laura is Head of Aberdeen Convention Bureau, which sits within VisitAberdeenshire. Day-to-day, Laura leads the team responsible for attracting business events to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The team promote the region as a business events destination, whilst showcasing regional sector expertise, research and output, and working with industry partners to attract, and welcome, business events to the North-East. Laura has more than 17 years’ experience within the business events industry, and has worked within visitor attractions, catering companies, hotels, professional conference organisers and city convention bureau.
Here’s three things you might not know about Laura.
- Laura loves attending music gigs and festivals. Some of her favourite things to see and do in the region include attending larger gigs at P&J Live and discovering more local, intimate gigs within Aberdeen’s vibrant city centre.
- Her favourite part of her job is the diversity of the role. She loves meeting a wide range of clients and industry colleagues from various backgrounds that she would not have the opportunity to meet in another role.
- She loves animals and is widely known to live with house rabbits and cats, plus sponsoring a guide dog and a donkey named Jimmy.
E-mail – laura.wilson@visitabdn.com
