Platinum Television Group presents Business & Beyond series on conventions, corporate meetings
Convention planning and corporate events are big business these days. Long gone are the days when a company could rent a room for an annual meeting, and need only a microphone and a speaker's podium as props, showing dull charts on an overhead projector and quoting statistics.

/Television News Articles/ - DEERFIELD BEACH, FL, July 28, 2006 - Convention planning and corporate events are big business these days. Long gone are the days when a company could rent a room for an annual meeting, and need only a microphone and a speaker's podium as props, showing dull charts on an overhead projector and quoting statistics.
Nowadays companies are more likely to take rooms and suites or a whole wing at a resort and invite the entire workstaff and their families for multiple days away from the home office, with business liberally mixed with pleasure to make for a memorable and effective annual meeting, convention, seminar or business conference. Top executives are convinced that such getaways are incredibly important for morale- and team-building and employee bonding in the corporate world.
Most hotels now prominently advertise and feature their convention centers with lavish ballrooms or conferencing areas, catering services, and multiple amenities right up there with their recreational facilities and comfortable rooms and suites. Indeed, for many hotels/resorts, conventions and meetings are as important a source of income as the recreational aspects. Many can cater to "10 to 10,000," and offer professional services and creative resources "to energize attendees, motivate them to think differently, and awaken a new level of creativity and innovation." They may throw in special events that can include amusement park visits, remote wilderness lodge retreats, fishing charters and tournaments, team activities and sports, spectacular parties and catering, and even days on cruise ships. And the resorts and hotels themselves frequently offer relaxing at a spa, with massages and facials; challenging golf courses with breathtaking scenery; boating; competitions and game rooms; and gourmet dining as well as chances for family together time, unwinding, and pampering.
And most major cities include prominent convention centers to lure businesses to their communities for extended meetings and socialization, with Orlando, FL, and Las Vegas, NV, leading the pack in terms of numbers attracted there. But conventions can be spectacular and memorable at many hotels and resorts, and this is one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Convention planning is a hot specialty for many companies and tourist offices, including some or all of the following services: Site selection, event planning, including themed receptions and entertainment, d cor, creative incentive programs, transportation and shuttles, customized tours and excursions, registration and hospitality services, unique incentive gifts and premiums, and much more. Corporate incentive trips are another popular area for rewarding achievement and inspiring productivity.

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