Marquette estate winner meeting award 2022
Landgoed Marquette, consisting of Hotel & Chateau Marquette, was named best event venue in the Netherlands on Jan. 30.
The meeting awards have been presented to the best MICE companies and venues since 2006. The awards are an initiative of Meetings trade magazine. The election takes place in seven categories. It was announced in November that Hotel & Chateau Marquette has been nominated for the West Netherlands category for the second year in a row. After coming in second place nationally in 2020, 1st place nationally in 2021 and we were able to take the award back to our Manor this year!
The Marquette Estate consists of the historic Marquette Castle, Marquette Hotel and Mr. T's bistro bar. The castle, with its foundations dating back to 1225, consists of 11 period rooms where both business and private guests can hold events such as trainings, congresses, receptions, etc. or family gatherings such as weddings, dinners and funerals. The hotel on the estate has 65 rooms.
As an entrepreneur, Erik Kuiper-van den Berg caused a stir earlier with Landgoed Marquette. He used crowdfunding to finance the takeover in 2018. The financing was completed in 11 minutes. In 2020, he issued depositary receipts for shares to finance the renovation of the hotel & castle.
