Planning Successful Meetings and Events

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International Meetings

International meeting responsibilities range from site selection to “making it happen.” When asked to select a site via fax and/or E-mail, without benefit of a site visit, partnerships become invaluable.

International partnerships may be with national tourist offices, Convention and Visitors’ Bureaus, hotel and facility representatives, airlines, destination management companies, tour operators, professional congress organizers, or suppliers in the business of marketing their country and services to the meeting industry.

Partnerships provide an inexhaustible source of information. As incoming meetings are important business for many countries, the destination representatives (airlines, government-supported tourist boards, ...