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Corporate Meetings: Specialist Venues VS Hotels

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Venue facilities to host meetings , events and specialist conferences are readily available at a huge amount of venues all through the world. However, the key to ensuring the success of any event is finding a venue that meets your exact requirements .

There are various types of venues – including conference and convention centres , leisure and corporate hotels , sport stadiums and unusual venues – but the biggest contenders in the learning and development sector are all kinds of hotels and conference centres .

There are many crucial factors to take into account when making a choice between these types of event venues , and below are the three most important differences to serve as food for thought :

•    Meeting rooms for hire at specialist venues are available to the facilitators for 24 hours, from arrival through to departure of the last guest. . Hotel rooms are on many occasions restricted for use between 8am and 5pm as they are often used for evening events .

•     Meeting rooms at training and conference centres are typically equipped with ceiling-mounted data projectors , screens, lots of wall space with pin-up boards and in some instances also plasma screens. However , meeting rooms at hotels could be used for wedding receptions or corporate functions , therefore equipment must be brought in and wall-space can be limited , subject to the décor .

•     Purpose built conference venues UK and further afield offer dedicated space to greatly enhance learning and development. On the other hand, hotels are open to the general public and leisure-guest marketplace, therefore making it difficult for leisure hotels to keep leisure and corporate customers seperate during their stay .

Some specialist conference venues , such as Buckinghamshire-based Lane End Conference Centre, offer dedicated team building in the grounds to compliment the learning that takes place in the conference rooms.

Heni Fourie, Sales and Marketing Manager at Lane End said: “We continually think about new ways to enhance our product, by improving our training rooms and other facilities for the benefit of both trainer and end user.

For more information, contact Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie, telephone +44 (0)845 521 3013.

What A Great Conference Centre Should Offer You

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Selecting the best conference meeting rooms makes a tremendous difference to the outcome of your event.

Some companies book a general venue in haste then later regret it because they were not offered specialist facilities and not helped to plan and prepare their conference.

Expert advice from professionals such as the team at Lane End Conference Centre UK will ensure a successful outcome for your event.

Lane End Conference Centre in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire has at least 40 years’ experience of hosting conferences. The team helps businesses and other organisations to hold highly effective and enjoyable conferences, training and teambuilding events.

Need help to plan and prepare your conference? Here are some important points to consider:

  • Start with your goal in mind – what do you want your conference to achieve? How will you measure its success? What will be your KPIs?
  • How big will the conference need to be? How many delegates? How big will the main room and breakout rooms need to be? What would be the best layout – theatre, U-shaped, cabaret?
  • How many delegates will need overnight accommodation? How many nights?
  • Will any special travel arrangements need to be put in place? What about dining, car parking, free high speed broadband?
  • What else will your delegates need? It is important to think about quiet study facilities, sport and fitness, teambuilding and leisure activities.

Lane End Conference Centre offers the very latest in business meeting rooms at a peaceful 26-acre countryside location easily accessible by motorway. It is just one hour’s drive from the centre of London.

Lane End residential conference centre has 34 conference meeting and breakout rooms plus 104 en-suite bedrooms – all based in five separate buildings with high quality dining facilities plus the latest in audio-visual technology for smart presentations and training.

It is not just the conference centre UK market that chooses Lane End. More and more overseas companies are choosing Lane End because it is close to the major London airports.

Lane End Conference Centre is also boosting its high speed internet access to 100 megabytes to enable even better video-conferencing so they delegates be able to keep in touch with their national and international offices more easily.

To find out more about Lane End’s hi-tech conference meeting rooms, contact Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie, telephone +44 (0)845 521 3013.

Conference Centre Launches Lane-O-Lympics Teambuilding

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Excitement is building in the final countdown to the 2012 games in London. So why not go for gold with your very own teambuilding tournament?

Teambuilding days are great for building morale and boosting the competitive spirit at your company or organisation.

Lane End Conference Centre in Buckinghamshire has joined forces with with Hi5 Events to offer new Lane-O-Lympics themed teambuilding days.

If you’ve never previously considered conference centres as teambuilding activity venues then it’s time you explored the opportunities offered at Lane End.

This popular venue is set in 26 acres of beautiful Chilterns countryside – ideal for events of all sizes. It has a huge range of residential training, teambuilding and conference facilities.

Lane End’s Lane-O-Lympics days will see teams competing in a series of challenges with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded for team success.

The team that banks the most medals at the end of the competition will be the overall winner.

Challenges include:
•    Five-a-side human table football
•    Archery – with full instruction and practice
•    Segway Gymkhana – competitors ride Segways around a tricky course. Penalties are given for any faults.
•    Biathlon – team members travel on walking skis before firing an air rifle at an alphabet target to collect letters and score points by making words.
•    Basketball Hockey Shoot – players dribble hockey balls down a slalom course then pick up a basketball and try to score baskets.
•    Beach Volleyball – held on Lane End’s new sand-filled court.
•    Target Tennis, Target Golf – competitors attempt to hit targets and score points.
•    Sumo Wrestling – competitors in huge padded sumo suits grapple for supremacy in the best of five bouts.

Choose four of the actvities for a half-day (three hours, £75 + VAT per person) or six for a full day (£110 + VAT per person) .

For more details, please phone Lane End’s Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie, telephone +44 (0)845 521 3013.

Why The Best Team Building Venue Is A Conference Centre

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When brainstorming team building ideas, it’s easy for all the initial focus to be more about the activities and less about the venue that will be hosting them.

But it is important not to let all the excitement surrounding the activities overshadow key questions about the venue:
•    Does it have the expertise and facilities to offer a sufficiently wide range of activities?
•    Does it have enough space for large scale team building events such as motorised activities involving quad bikes and off-road buggies?
•    Does it have high quality conference and training facilities if one or more days of team building are to be part of a larger event?
•    Will it have the calibre of accommodation and dining facilities necessary for large team building events spanning several days?
•    Is it quick and easy to reach with good motorway, rail and airport links?

All too often smaller team building venues can tick one or two boxes but not all of them.

So it pays to choose dedicated team building activity centres such as those at specialist conference venues.

Lane End Conference Centre in Buckinghamshire hosts at least 20 different types of team building activities.

They range from hovercraft, quad bikes, off-road buggies and motorised beer kegs to human table football, archery plus various experiential learning challenges.

Lane End Conference Centre is ideally situated to serve London and the corporate City market – it is the only team building venue of its kind within a 20-mile radius.

The centre is set in the beautiful Chilterns countryside with dedicated land set aside for team building in its 26-acre grounds.

Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie said: “We have formed a unique partnership with a neighbouring farmer with direct access to his land from our grounds for motorised activities.

“This ideal working partnership gives us the space to host motorised team activities in a dedicated area that is far enough from our conference facilities to avoid any loud noise to cause distraction.”

To find more about Lane End Conference Centre, contact Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie, telephone +44 (0)845 521 3013.