Corporate Travel Destinations

If you positioned 41 double-decker London buses back to back, you’d have an idea of just how long the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner is. Impressive as this is, size isn’t all the Queen Mary 2 has going for her. Three fourths of her rooms include private balconies and suites come in a wide range of comfort and price. The cozy Princess suites may be ideal for your clients; or they may prefer the ultimate luxury of the ship’s deluxe apartments.

Chilled champagne and sugar iced strawberries set the stage in the sumptuous quarters known as the Queens Grill Suites. Your client will have his every need met and catered to by the personal butler service. Travelers can make use of one of five swimming pools, a casino, a ballroom, and fifteen restaurants. The planetarium onboard doubles as a movie theater, offering guests their choice of stars – ones created in the heavens or ones created in Hollywood.

The Queen Mary 2 is a tribute to a more genteel golden age of ocean travel. Her ports of call include New York, Cherbourg, and Barbados. This beautiful ocean liner is the perfect setting for high-powered meetings, luxury vacations, or incentive travel.

Want to plan a cruise meeting event?  Meetings at sea are a great motivational incentive for employees.  Meetings and incentives held at sea, verses traditional land-based programs, can reduce costs by 25-40%. But for those unfamiliar with staging events on board cruise ships, the process can be intimidating. With the debut of Seasite.com, the first and only web portal dedicated solely to serving the cruise meetings market, planners will find what was once labor intensive, is now quick, simple and accessible all in one place.

The first and only comprehensive online marketplace for planning cruise meetings and events, Seasite is a revolutionary approach to ship selection and onboard event planning.  Try it today!

The corporate world is full of challenges and after the last year of pushing through the recession it’s time for a breath of fresh air. Would you like to send your client to a breathtakingly beautiful area that provides them with unique opportunities to get away from it all?

Why not choose Anchorage, Alaska for the next corporate getaway or meeting? The Anchorage Convention District is made up of two separate and complimentary Civic and Convention Centers located in the heart of downtown.

The Dena’ina (pronounced DEH-nah-EE-nah) Civic and Convention Center has 200,000 square feet of room to offer meeting planners. Native Alaska themes used throughout the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center underscore its commitment to sustain and protect the environment by using state of the art heating equipment, low wattage escalators, and recycling products. Guests are stunned by the gorgeous stained glass murals and traditional carvings seen throughout the venue. The best in audiovisual technology is available making corporate events a breeze.

For smaller, more intimate meetings, investigate the William A. Egan Civic and Convention Center. This site offers affordable rates and is just two blocks from the Dena’ina area of the district. The Anchorage Center for the Performing Arts and Town Square Park are nearby.

Where else can you get world-class cuisine created with local resources and catch a glimpse of a moose in the distance?

One of the first casualties of the global recession was travel, especially in the corporate world. The answer to that is finally coming in–not only are most countries and properties clamoring to offer the best deals around, countries that were never considered serious destinations are becoming contenders in the world travel business.

While many groups might continue sending their conferences and meetings to Europe or larger Asian countries, some are looking at Myanmar, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other smaller destinations. Some of these destinations are just starting out in the world market for travel, and are offering the best they can give–including prices–to attract meetings. Continue reading »