Until April 2005, at the heart of CV One's core activities lay commercial membership schemes covering city centre businesses, principally retailers and leisure sector operators, and tourism businesses, such as hotels and attractions, from a wide area of Warwickshire as well as from Coventry itself Unique in Britain, CV One is internationally recognised as a benchmark for combining the twin functions of managing Coventry's city centre and promoting the City and its surrounding region as an attractive place in which to invest, work, live and to visit