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OUR PARTNERS

The Best Practice Forum is a strategic alliance of these key industry associations:

Association of Leading Visitor Attractions
Association for museums and art galleries, heritage sites, cathedrals, leisure attractions, gardens and conservation sites.

 

British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions
Founded in 1936, BALPPA is the non profit-making Trade Association which represents the interests of owners, managers, suppliers and developers in the UK's commercial leisure parks, piers, zoos and static attractions sector.

 

British Beer and Pub Association
 The BBPA is the leading organisation representing the UK beer and pub sector. Our members account for 98% of beer brewed in the UK and own more than half of Britain's 54,000 pubs..

 

British Holiday and Home Parks Association
Created by park owners in the 1950s. It is the nationally recognised representative of the parks industry and is consulted by Government on all changes to legislation affecting park businesses and works pro-actively to affect change, improving the regulatory environment in which parks operate.

 

British Hospitality Association
The Association exists to ensure that the views of the British hospitality industry are represented in a forceful, coherent and co-ordinated way to government and policy makers in the UK and internationally, in order that its members' businesses can flourish.

 

Business in Sport and Leisure
BISL is a trade organisation, a lobby, an umbrella body. It represents the key players in the sport and leisure industry.

 

Restaurant Association
The Association has become a potent voice for the industry, leading the debate on issues such as deregulation legislation, licensing reform and the Smoking White Paper and challenging other government initiatives where appropriate, both actual and potential.

 

Meetings Industry Association
The mia is the United Kingdom's principal trade association for the conference, meeting & events industry. By encouraging excellence and ethical standards, your best interests are assured. The mia exists for the benefit of our members and conference buyers. We enable members to maintain and develop the quality of the services they provide through delivery of member benefits.

 

And is supported by:

 

British Institute of Innkeeping
Caterer & Hotelkeeper
Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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Hotel and Catering International Management Association
The leading international body for professionals in the hospitality, leisure, and tourism industry.

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council

Are a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Launched in April 2000 as the strategic body working with and for the museums, archives and libraries sector, tapping into the potential for collaboration between them, MLA replaced the Museums and Galleries Commission (MGC) and the Library and Information Commission (LIC).
 
The Forum works in conjunction with other partners and support agencies to deliver its Profit Through Productivity and other programmes throughout the country.