Reasons to have your conference or business meetings at Sea
Cruise Ships are an Exceptional Venue for Events, Conferences and Business Meetings
Is your company looking for new and was of conducting meetings, conferences and workshops? Have you ever though about hosting it at sea on a cruise ship? This is an economical and efficient way to stage your company event. You will be amazed at how easy and affordable it is to conduct a conference or event aboard a ship compared to a land based venue. Many of the things that you pay extra for at a land based event are all included in the price of your shipboard event. Cruises are growing in popularity with attendees and can help make your event a great success. You can select the length of the cruise that is best for your business needs ranging from 3, 4, 5, 7 or 10 days and longer. You can choose from several great itineraries such as Alaska, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Mexican Riviera that are sure to be a hit with your conference attendees. They will have the opportunity to experience a perfect blend of interesting, and enjoyable ports of call with days at sea to where you can conduct meetings and work on important business functions. If you need a longer, and more impressive event look no further then a cruise to Europe, Hawaii and the South Pacific which offer outstanding opportunities for group interaction and team building events. For large conferences or groups you can also do a partial or full ship charter which gives you options that will make your event very special. As you can see there are many advantages of doing your next meeting or conference at sea.
Do you want to motivate and award your employees with a special incentive? A cruise at sea is a proven way to improve employee performance and contributions to your business. Do you have special customers that you want to reward for their loyalty and purchases? Our business Incentive Awards Programs are a proven method to increase your profits and improve your bottom line while reducing costly turnover and employee morale issues. We specialize in Corporate Incentive Awards Programs that are designed to improve employee performance and your customer loyalty.
How Can We Save Your Company Money?
Today’s companies spend billions of dollars on corporate meetings in the U.S. every year. An interesting statistic gathered from StarCite: is that 80% of meetings are planned in advance of the event, but account for only 50% of a company’s meeting budget. It’s the last-minute meetings, which are perhaps planned on the spur-of-the-moment, that will eat away at half of a company’s program expenditures budget.
It’s the smaller meetings, those that are 50 people or less, that are open to the greatest exposure to monetary loss, and these account for 2/3 of all company meetings that will be held. These meetings are usually planned outside of the normal channels, i.e. not through the meeting planning department and instead by personnel in other departments. The reasoning for the large loss of funds is five-fold:
1. Smaller meetings are generally sourced by non-professional planners (perhaps a secretary, administrative assistant or marketing coordinator at the firm).
2. They are usually overlooked by upper management.
3. There is no reporting function or feedback and tracking of these smaller meetings and their costs, so there’s no accountability structure in place.
4. Because they are not sourced professionally, the cost leveraging opportunities are missed (for example, if you were to book multiple programs with one vendor, this would often result in cost-savings, which is not currently present).
5. Having shorter lead times leave less chance for the reduction of cost with these types of meetings, and ensuing negotiations. Being under the gun, planners are forced to just accept what hotels or other venues offer to them to make the meeting happen.
Our Solution:
We provide you with skilled and knowledgable meeting management to help ensure that you get the best return on your meeting expenditure dollars. We will work with your key people in your company to ensure that we meet your objectives in a timely and efficient manner and that will help to save you both time and money.