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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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Stimulating Your Attendees in a Positive Way
After reading the article Boost the Brain Computer, Don’t Crash It, I got to thinking about how foods definitely have an effect on mood and concentration. Anyone who has ever seen a child at a birthday party, loaded with candy, snow cones, cake and soda can attest to the fact that while the sugar will make them run around in... »
Corporate Meeting Planners Are Moving Up
The importance of corporate meetings and events continues to increase, especially as the current economic slump seems set to continue unabated. The result is that meeting planners are moving up from dealing with middle management to dealing with executives, and those same middle management staffers are now in the unemployment lines or moved up in the company themselves. Here are... »
Should You Charter a Ship for Your Next Event?
It's a well known fact that cruising for groups and corporate incentives offers exceptional value with savings of up 40 percent over land-based venues such as hotels and convention centers. According to a recent report in Corporate Meetings & Incentives magazine, 34% of their readers had booked a cruise for an incentive event and an surprising 72% said they planned... »
Destination: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Why chose Atlantic City for your next business meeting. All work and no play make the meeting dull but afterhours in Atlantic City are just plain fun. Atlantic City is a resort town acclaimed for gambling, the boardwalk, and shopping. Only Las Vegas has more casinos than Atlantic City, which is why most people consider it the east coast gambling... »
Aspen for a Summer Meeting
If you’re under the misguided notion that Aspen is an option only during ski season, think again. The beautiful resort town is never lovelier than during the summer months. The high temperatures range between 75 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes holding a corporate meeting in this beautiful town a cool way to beat the summer heat. One option for corporate... »
Continuing Education at Sea
Cruise ship bookings are up all across the board, for leisure, as an incentive, and for corporate meetings. A relatively new market for cruise booking is as a host site for continuing education classes, particularly for medical professionals. Attendees earn continuing education credits and enjoy the benefits of a cruise. Norwegian Cruise lines have noticed that many of these groups include... »
Cruise Meetings are Back in Vogue
Cruise lines are geared up for the summer months and eager to host corporate meetings. They have made their cruises more attractive offering shorter trips, lowered group prices, and increased incentives. Due to the increase in demand from the corporate sector as well as leisure travelers, cruise lines are adding more ships with state of the art meeting spaces and... »
Arranging Your Meeting Room for a Productive Planning Session
Corporate meetings that include planning or brainstorming sessions need to be productive, need to stay on task and need to be in an environment that promotes clear, easy communication. The person conducting the meeting will be in charge of keeping the participants on task and moving them towards their goals, but the meeting planner can assist in creating an atmosphere... »
Corporate Meetings
Taking Stock by Maria Lenhart Is the corporate meeting an endangered species this year? Certainly cancellations seem to be rampant, encompassing everything from board meetings on up to Cisco’s annual sales convention, which was to have taken place in San Francisco this August, using 42,000 room nights. But while some companies are bailing out of meetings already booked, even when it means paying... »
Planning a Corporate Event? Here Are a Few Tips
Planning an event could get very tedious as you will need to look into every small detail and ensure that everything runs smoothly. However if you follow a few simple steps, there is no reason why you cannot achieve satisfying results. There are many ways to organize corporate events and some of these could even get expensive. During times of... »