Club Cricket Conference

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Club Cricket Conference official partnership announcement

1 June 2014

The Club Cricket Conference is delighted to announce its commercial partnership with the Barbados Tourism Authority and Smile Group Travel.

2015 is CCC's centenary year, during which It will embark on a prestigious tour to Barbados with a full representative squad, a Ladies squad and veterans squad. Work with BTA and Smile Group Travel has been ongoing for a number of months already and has proven to be beneficial to all parties.

Future plans to establish long lasting cricketing links between Barbados and CCC will be developed as 2015 approaches and CCC looks forward to a fruitful engagement with BTA and Smile Group Travel.


For decades Barbados has been synonymous with cricket; producing somewhat of a conveyor belt of outstanding cricketers who have dominated the game and put the island firmly on the global cricket map. Players like Sir Everton Weekes, Sir Clyde Walcott, Sir Frank Worrell, Sir Conrad Hunte, and the undisputed greatest cricketer of all Time – The Right Excellent Sir Garfield Sobers, blazed the trail for the likes of Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall to follow, to mention a few.
 
The Barbados Tourism Authority UK has worked to identify and establish relationships with key cricketing associations and partners with a view to raising the Barbados profile amongst the cricket fraternity. As such, the BTA is delighted to announce a partnership with the Club Cricket Conference (CCC) ; an association of 1,500 clubs and leagues based in the South of England. The BTA is looking forward to embracing the interests of club cricket at all levels. What’s more, 2015 sees the celebration of CCC’s centenary and as such, the association will be touring Barbados with a representative team, a ladies and veterans squad in October. England may be the birthplace of cricket but it has always had the strongest connections with Barbados.  The BTA’s partnership with the CCC is a fantastic vehicle to further increase the awareness of Barbados as a tourism destination and to encourage travel.


Smile Group Travel is a specialist group tour operator that offers an amazing array of sports and supporters tours of the highest quality to long haul, short haul and UK destinations.

Smile is the chosen tour operator for many professional sports teams, including Warwickshire C.C.C. and Northants C.C.C. In addition, they are dedicated to helping develop sport at all levels through their highly active support of charities such as Lords Taverners and Chance to Shine.

As official sponsors and appointed travel partners of the Club Cricket Conference, Smile will use this partnership to continue to encourage and develop tour opportunities for clubs at all levels.

Smile are incredibly proud to sponsor the Club Cricket Conference as they lead into their momentous Centenary year in 2015.