With a range of outstanding venue options in Belfast and across Northern Ireland, we have the right space for your event. From purpose-built conference spaces to world leading visitor attractions, castles and stately homes, whatever you require our team at Visit Belfast can help you host sustainable events in a city dedicated to a net zero carbon future.

Belfast is continuing to help travellers make sustainable choices during their visit. In 2023 Belfast ranked 11^th out of 100 global destinations in the 2023 Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GDS-Movement) Index.

Early this year, Belfast was also named the Travellers’ Choice Awards Best of the Best destination winners. Belfast also featured  in Forbes Where to travel in 2024: Spend your dollars in Sustainable Destinations article. A brilliant accolade, reflective of the city’s effort to becoming a sustainable destination.

With a population of almost 350,000 in the city, Belfast has become a popular destination with a variety of transport options making it easy to navigate the city’s rich cultural history and the exciting culinary and entertainment scene with award-winning restaurants, lively bars, art galleries and theatres offering a diverse range of experiences.

5 Reasons Why Belfast is a sustainable choice for your next business event

1.  An Award winning Sustainable Destination

The awards have been coming in thick and fast over the last few years for Belfast, cementing the city’s position as a global events destination. From C&IT’s Best Conference Destination for the 3^rd year in a row, to the UK Best Destination Team of the year 2023 at the recent Meetings Industry Association (MIA) Awards, securing the top industry title in a highly competitive shortlist. Belfast has also taken home 2 coveted sustainability awards recently, the Top Innovation Award in the Global Destination Sustainability Movement  and ABPCO’s Impact & Legacy Award, which was awarded for our commitment in driving tourism growth in a new and sustainable way.

2. Sustainable Toolkit

To help you make your Belfast conference more sustainable, we have developed a comprehensive, simple to use template which you can edit and amend for your own event. It includes over 50 practical actions across all areas of event planning with helpful links, resources, guides, useful information and sources of inspiration.

Download Framework here

We are also committed to helping our clients accelerate the positive impact of their events. By downloading our practical guide of established initiatives and partners across Belfast and Northern Ireland we can help you create a legacy & impact plan that aligns with your organisation’s aims and objectives.

Download Impact & Legacy Guide

If you need any support in completing your framework, get in contact with us here, where a member of the team will be on hand to help answer any of your queries.

3. Changing The Menu. For Good

In the last 5 years, the need for food banks has increased by 128%, with such strong demand for support, organisations that help to tackle food poverty and homelessness need more support than ever before.

Changing The Menu. For Good is a pioneering project by Visit Belfast and our industry to enlist venues, caterers and event organisers to directly raise funds and supplies for those experiencing food poverty in our city, to date Visit Belfast has raised almost  £28,000.

We have a range of ways your event can get involved in the Changing The Menu. For Good initiative.

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4. Sustainable Accredited Product

In 2021 Visit Belfast and Belfast City Council launched a partnership with Green Tourism to position Belfast as a leader in sustainable tourism. This partnership has resulted in more than 50 businesses in Belfast gaining a third party, independent sustainability accreditation including venues, hotels, attractions, restaurants and more. Also 76% of hotel bedrooms in Belfast have a sustainability accreditation.

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5. Walkable City

Getting around the city with minimal carbon impact couldn’t be easier. Belfast is a walkable city with the majority of hotels, restaurants, and bars within a 10 minute walking distance of the city centre.

• More than 300 Belfast Bikes are available to rent all year round, making it a flexible and sustainable way to move around the city quickly.
• 33% of all Translink Metro services are now net zero carbon. The new zero emission fleet of buses are made up of 80 battery-electric and 23 Hydrogen buses.

Delegates can make their trip to Belfast and the surrounding area more sustainable by making sustainable travel choices, enjoying our green spaces and attractions, and supporting our local businesses.

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Get in contact with our team today to find out how we can help you host your next sustainable event.