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Mar 2020
First conferences fall victim to coronavirus
Two events at Harrogate Convention Centre have been called off because of coronavirus.
The Morrisons supplier conference on 24th March and the three-day IPIG medical conference in May have both been postponed because of the spread of the virus.
However, the AireCon gaming festival is taking place this weekend with 2,500 attendees and the Conservative Party Spring Forum is still currently scheduled for early April.
Kim Wilson, who chairs guesthouse group Accommodation Harrogate, said she believed the two postponed events were relatively small and did not bring significant contributions to the local economy. The Morrisons event would have been mostly day delegates, while those at the IPIG conference kept mostly to the venue itself. New dates have yet to be confirmed for either.
Discussing the growing impact of coronavirus, she said: "I think across town, and across the country generally, we need to hunker down a bit and do what we can to get through.
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