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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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Planning a Meeting at Sea is Simpler Than it Sounds!
Planning a meeting at sea might sound incredibly involved at first, but don’t sweat it! There is plenty of help to be found and a surprising amount of details can already be taken care of for you. Here’s what you need to know: Most cruise lines have concierge services as well as activity planners. A concierge service can help you book... »
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... »
Live an Exciting Life as a Cruise Meeting Planner
A cruise meeting and/or event planner is a special job that only some people are suited to. The job can be exciting, but it also involves very serious aspects too. Those who can walk the fine line between playing hard and working hard can make a good living. Those who only want to be defined as ‘hardly working’ will probably... »
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... »
The Blackstone – Presidential Opulence in Chicago
With its Beaux-Arts architectural style, the Blackstone, in Chicago, Illinois, provides a stark contrast to the more industrial style of architecture that the city is known for. Having played host to the city’s socialites, politicos and mob bosses, the Blackstone has a reputation for providing elegance and grace in a blue-collar city. Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of the... »
San Diego CVB – A New Approach to Site Inspection
In the summer of 2009, the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau debuted its new initiative for site inspection. The move, according to Margie Sitton, senior VP of sales, was made to help event and meeting planners manage their site inspection time more wisely. The overall initiative included education of everyone involved with the CVB. By doing this, when a... »
Web 2.0 and Meeting Planners
What is Web 2.0 and how will it affect how meeting planners do their jobs? Don’t worry; the World Wide Web isn’t going anywhere – at least not anytime soon. Web 2.0 refers to the interactive part of the Internet that meeting planners are already utilizing. Social networking like Facebook and LinkIn, video sharing sites such as YouTube, and photo storage... »
How New Government Guidelines Can Increase Your Value
As an event planner, you are always looking for ways to add value to your “products.” The recent guidelines the government has issued to the companies receiving bailout money can help you be a better planner. Here are two of the requirements and how you can use them to make your companies look golden even if they are planning incentive... »
Should You Specialize? Reflections on Types of Careers
Just as many doctors specialize in treatment of a certain part of the body, many meeting planners like to specialize. However, there are still many doctors in general practice who call their practices “family medicine.” Family practitioners treat common ailments and injuries, and often have many clients. Specialists have fewer, but often make more money per patient. The comparison of planning... »
Meeting Planners’ Little Helpers
One of the old clichéd images of meeting planners at an event was frazzled people covered in clipboards with pencils behind their ears and their pockets stuffed with everything from enormous amounts of pay phone change to walkie talkies. Although those days are long gone, it’s amazing just how many tools a meeting planner really uses. Here is a short... »