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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.

Choosing Wedding Reception Venues That Offer More

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Ask any bride about planning her wedding and she will almost certainly talk about attention to detail – thinking about all the special touches that will make her big day truly unique.

The very best wedding reception venues share this approach and can guide the bride and groom with advice about which local florists, cake providers and other specialist suppliers can best help them.

But it does not stop there. It is important that all the individual suppliers – the florist, the photographer, the wedding car provider – can all work together as a team to make the day run as smoothly and as seamlessly as possible.

The more they know the venue and each other, the more smoothly the big day will go.

The Pavilion – one of the top wedding venues in Buckinghamshire – can provide a team of recommended expert suppliers to help the happy couple with all the detailed arrangements for the ceremony and reception.

At least two thirds of the couples who decide to marry at The Pavilion’s fabulous wedding venues in High Wycombe choose its recommended suppliers for their special day.

Pavilion Sales and Marketing Manager Heni Fourie said: “We work with well known and trusted local suppliers who can all add their special touches to the wedding day.

“They know the Pavilion wedding venue inside out, allowing them to offer the best advice in making best use of the space.”

The Pavilion offers three special packages – Platinum, Gold and Silver – to make it easier for couples to book their wedding.

The Gold option includes the reception plus flowers and the cake. Platinum adds luxurious chairs covers to give the wedding that extra touch of added elegance.

However, if the bride and groom choose to source their own suppliers, then the team is more than happy to offer the Silver package that includes basic venue hire and wedding catering only.

But The Pavilion always recommends that the couple’s chosen suppliers visit the venue and speak with its wedding team to help them get a feel for the many attributes of this unique location.

For more information, contact The Pavilion’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.