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- Seasite.com Launches Version 2.0Business Planners Can Now Search Cruise Choices and Submit One Request to Five Cruise Lines Simultaneously Seasite.com, the first online portal for cruise meetings and events, launched version 2.0 that provides business and event planners direct access to major cruise lines. With the new electronic Request For Proposal (eRFP) feature, planners can send cus […]
- Not Enough Hours in the Day?What Meeting Planner hasn’t wished for just a couple more hours in the day to get more work done? With all the details and planning involved in orchestrating a successful corporate event, its no wonder sleep falls to the bottom of the totem pole in so many cases. The thinking is always, “I’ll get some rest after […]
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Virtual Employees Help Grow Your Business
When we say something is 'virtual" in modern terminology, we are almost always talking about something related to the Internet. "Virtual" does not mean something that does not exist. But it implies you are replacing a normal physical entity with a real but for the most part unseen entity that lives online. The trend in strategic business planning is to incorporate... »
Enhance Corporate Events with Group Cruise Deals and Convenient Planning Tools
No matter if you are a corporate business meeting and event planner, a wedding planner or a corporate travel planner, a detailed knowledge of group cruise packages and how they can help you and your clients is essential to successfully incorporating cruise ship venues and destinations into your planning services. It is one thing to have experience with sourcing cruises... »
Increase Event Attendance – Offer Something Special
Are you continually looking for ideas to build up meeting attendance? Are attractive corporate travel destinations sometimes just not enough to create the excitement and enthusiasm vital to generate the required results? Despite the fact that opting for destinations in Mexico, South America, The Caribbean, The Bahamas or other thrilling locations are frequently adequate to have attendees tripping over themselves... »
Charity Begins at Home
It is a given fact: the economy is not in good shape. Meeting planning has become more and more difficult in terms of budget and public opinion. The winter weather kicked many cities in the urban behind and sent corporate morale a bit further into the dumps. It is time to rebuild team spirit and sometimes that is best done... »
British Airways Cabin Crews Say They Will Strike
Union representatives said Friday, March 12, that their members will undertake two strikes during the month of March. The seven-day strike may affect thousands of travelers. The dispute between union members and British Airways centers on a pay freeze and changes in working conditions. Crew members would have extended working hours with fewer crew assigned to a shift. Despite its disapproval,... »
Why do Meetings Get Such a Bad Rap?
Unproductive, ineffective meetings seem to be the norm – particularly if you ask the professionals that, on average, attend more than 60 of them each month. While meetings can be the most effective way to move a business forward, increase sales, disseminate important information to large groups of people and brainstorm for new ideas, they can also be a huge... »
How to Build a Customer Focused Meeting Planning Business
You can have the best service, the plushest offices, the best location, but unless you are a ‘customer focused’ meeting planning business, all of this counts for nothing, you will never really hit the heights you deserve. So what can you do to build a business which focuses outwardly on the customer, and not inwardly on the business? Build Passion and... »
Greening Your Meetings
The demand for green meeting planning is growing, which means this is a target market that you should be aware of and consider serving. Successful meeting planners will find that greening your meeting planning services is simpler than you might think and can begin with simple steps that will significantly decrease the environmental impact of your events without giving up... »
Promoting Your Meeting Planning Services with Promotional Products
Meeting planners must constantly promote their services to bring in new clients and to ensure that past customers remember them the next time they are in need of a meeting planner. Most meeting planners are well aware of the power of networking and recognize this as a primary marketing tool for advertising their business. When attending networking mixers, tabling at... »
EIBTM and RTE back call for new meeting management discipline
November 6, 2009 in MICE (Forimmediaterelease.net) For the past year, Reed Travel Exhibitions have been part of a global group of respected meeting professionals working with Maarten Vanneste, CEO, Abbit Meeting Support, to create “The Meeting Architecture Manifesto” – a call for a discipline around the content, design, and format of meetings. Meetings have taken place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and California with... »