EYNSHAM HALL BECOMES LATEST MEMBER OF CONFERENCE CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
Eynsham Hall, one of Oxfordshire’s most prominent specialist conference venues, has joined Conference Centres of Excellence, the UK’s leading consortium of dedicated meeting providers.
A Grade Two listed, Jacobean-style manor house, Eynsham Hall is the heart of a 3000 acre estate, 12 miles north west of Oxford. It has 53 meeting rooms, 145 bedrooms, as well as Leisure facilities including an indoor swimming pool, gym and sauna. The venue combines traditional elegance and modern facilities, with recent enhancements including new furnishings and an award winning bar, the Gun Room.
“With its distinctive heritage and exceptional levels of facility and service, Eynsham Hall is a significant enhancement to our portfolio,” said Steven Crawford, Chair of Conference Centres of Excellence: “It is further evidence that we only accept into membership venues that meet the very highest standards, so that we can offer event organisers a truly sector-leading selection of venues.”
CCE now has 37 members, including many of the country’s best known specialist venues. Its members are all independent providers, working together to promote the concept of dedicated centres as the optimum solution for conferences and meetings. Before joining, venues have to meet stringent criteria in terms of facilities, accommodation and customer care.
“Membership of CCE is the hallmark of excellence for specialist venues,” said Eynsham Hall’s general manager Jeremy Wall: “It is real recognition of our efforts to provide our customers with an exceptional and memorable experience.”
CCE provides a free, focused venue-finding service for corporate clients and agencies, providing single-source guidance on facilities, availability and price for each member venue; it also arranges visits. The services can be contacted on 0845 230 1414, email info@cceonline.co.uk. The consortium’s website www.cceonline.co.uk includes extensive information on all members.
BUSINESS TRAVEL SHOW MOVES TO TWO DAYS AND INTRODUCES NEW EXHIBITOR AND VISITOR INITIATIVES
9-10 February 2010, Earls Court 2, London Business Travel Show London is entering a new era of evolution and investment. Europe’s leading networking platform for the business travel industry is moving to two days in 2010, introducing a host of new exhibiting packages and further developing on the Executive Buyer Programme, which launched earlier this year. The Event will take place on 9 -10 February at Earls Court in London. “The Business Travel Show is the most important networking platform in the industry calendar and, as such, it’s paramount that its evolution is driven by the market and its needs,” said David Chapple, Business Travel Show event director. “Over the last two months we have listened carefully to what buyers and suppliers are experiencing, what they think, and what they want from their trade show. It’s become clear that their overriding need at this stage is for an even greater return on investment and an event that continues to provide real value for buyers.” The biggest change to the Business Travel Show for 2010 is the move to two days, but organiser Centaur Exhibitions is also introducing a range of new initiatives to increase ROI for exhibitors and to make it easier for companies to participate. These will include an ‘appointment-led’ exhibitor package and an all-inclusive ‘ready to exhibit’ stand. Centaur is also adding new elements to the Executive Buyer Visitor Programme.
For more information: Please contact Charlotte Le Rougetel at Bastion on 020 7421 7600 E: charlotte@bastion.co.uk
Business Travel Show London takes place 9-10 February 2010 at Earls Court 2. For more information, please visit www.businesstravelshow.com
12 November 2009
Expotel acquires LateMeetings.com- '25% of business event transactions will be web-driven': says CEO Burnley
Expotel has acquired LateMeetings.com, the real time online booking service, for an undisclosed sum. The £200m-a-year hotel and travel management services group currently places over 20,000 conferences and meetings annually and expects the acquisition to lead to significant growth in this market.
Comments Ian Burnley, CEO for Expotel, 'LateMeetings.com delivers the advantages of immediacy, connectivity, 24/7 accessibility, internationality and sustainability. Increasingly these will be the values that corporate and public sector buyers, as well as venue operators, will rate most highly' Burnley adds, 'this expansion should be seen as integral to the development of our recently re-launched expotel.com online presence. Whilst call centre bookings will continue to dominate, within five years perhaps 25% of all business event transactions will be web-driven'.
LateMeetings.com directors John Gallery and Chris Martins are being retained as consultants by Expotel.
New Lanark World Heritage Site is a truly unique setting. Surrounded by native woodlands and close to the famous Falls of Clyde. The hotel is offering special rates to LateMeetings.com customers.
Special rates of £33.75 Day Delegate Rate and £112.50 24 hour less 10% - valid until 23rd December 2009. Includes 1 complimentary specialty break for our selection of special breaks i.e chocolate indulgence, Fair Trade break, Healthy options break.
New Lanark Mill Hotel South Lanarkshire, Scotland ML11 9DB tel: +44 1555 667200 fax: +44 1555 667222 email: hotel@newlanark.org
-all on site Audio Visual equipment
-unlimited access to delegate café
-complimentary internet centre
-complimentary Wi-Fi
-free photocopying
-main room hire
-delegate table stationery and refreshments
-2 course hot and cold buffet style lunch
24 Hour Delegate Package - £79.00 + VAT
-all on site Audio Visual equipment
-unlimited access to delegate café
-complimentary internet centre
-complimentary Wi-Fi
-free photocopying
-main room hire
-delegate table stationery and refreshments
-2 course hot and cold buffet style lunch
-accommodation
-3 course table d’hôte dinner
-full English breakfast
Please contact Laura on 01788 528 112 or ltownend@dunchurch.co.uk
Offer subject to availability. Terms and conditions apply Offer valid until the end of 2009.
Wide selection of conference & training facilities 2 syndicate rooms Data Projector and Screen Free Flow Tea and Coffee Danish Pastries served with mid morning Coffee Afternoon Cream Tea, with freshly baked scones, clotted Cotswold cream and strawberry Preserve
Once the meeting or conference has finished, it doesn’t have to end at 5.00pm? With our compliments, enjoy a Pimms Reception on the terrace and enjoy the 3000 acres views of Oxfordshire countryside.
Whilst Chef is preparing the BBQ enjoy competing with fellow colleagues and have great fun playing our Garden Games:
Giant Jenga Giant Connect 4 French Boules Croquet
£59.00 + Vat per Delegate
Minimum conference requirements 15 delegates. Maximum Conference x 75 delegates
Subject to availability, please quote ‘Eynsham Hall Summer Sizzler’
The above offer is applicable to all new conference bookings made from
26th May 2009 – 4th September and is subject to availability.
This includes:
- hire of the conference room
- 3 servings of tea/coffee & Biscuits
- 2 course restaurant lunch
- free WI-FI
- free car parking for 200 cars
- flipchart stand, pads & projection screen
24hr rate | £124 per person
This includes all of the above plus:
- 3 course restaurant dinner
- overnight stay in our en-suite rooms
- full English or continental Breakfast
Bedern Hall York, is the cool venue for your summer meetings and conferences. This stonebuilt 14th century Hall not only provides a stimulating and unusual working environment, but is naturally cool and airy because of its construction. Add to that our sunny Courtyard and shady Garden Terrace and we can offer you a superb summer conference location. We offer flexible in–house catering with the emphasis on all that’s best for the season – some of which will at this time of year come from our own gardens. And for meetings booked and held up until the end of September, we’ll round your day off by serving, at no extra charge, strawberries and cream or our homemade lemonade. We’ll leave it to you to prevent heated debate in the conference room….!
New incentive programme at North Yorkshire Dales Resort Hotel
Brook Hotels Summer Special
Brook Hotels are offering 1 in 10 places free for Day delegate rates for 24-hour residential delegates. The perfect package for meetings. Includes room hire, bacon sandwiches on arrival, use of presentation equipment, unlimited tea and coffee, lunch and break-time refreshments from our delicious Summer menus, including ice creams to help you chill out! Presentation equipment includes overhead projector and screen, flip chart stand, stationary and complementary use of the LCD projector.
‘To book call any Brook Hotel direct or the Central Desk on 0208 549 6183 quoting Late Meetings
Holland House Conference Wi-Fi Deal
Hotel Du Vin Newcastle Day Delegate Rate ' SPECIAL OFFER '
Inclusive of the following:
Arrival tea & coffee with fresh pastries,
Morning tea & coffee break with doughnuts or accompaniments,
Afternoon tea & coffee break with home-made biscuits and cake/scones,
Fruit bowl,
Mini chocolate treats
Everton Mints,
Still and Sparkling Water (½ bottler per person)
Hush Heath Apple Juice,
Working Buffet Lunch or 2 course bistro lunch,
Data projector and screen,
Flip chart,
Complimentary wireless broadband
From £45.00 per person,
(minimum 8 people
2008 Prices Held
The Old Rectory at Ipsley has held 2008 prices and removed all minimum charges for meeting rooms, so small groups can book any meeting room, large or small and enjoy the facilities and beautiful surroundings without penalty.
New Packages at Newick Park
Day delegate rates: · Room hire · Granny smiths, grapes and granola bars in the room, · Screen and flipcharts · Tea & coffee on arrival · Mid morning tea & coffee with biscuits · Two course lunch in our restaurant or working buffet lunch in the conference room · Afternoon tea & coffee with homemade cakes Based at £55.00 +VAT per person
24hour delegate rates are as above and also including: · Single occupancy accommodation in a double room · Complimentary newspaper · Full English breakfast · Canapés · Three course dinner from our 3 AA rosette menu · Corporate gift bag · If booking a 24hour meeting for over 8 people you also have the opportunity to have a spin in our ‘residential’ tank! Based at £185 + VAT per person.
LateMeetings.com office at new York Eco Business Centre
Our move to York Eco Business Centre at Clifton Moor York in October has proved to be a great success and provides a very modern, comfortable, spacious and friendly environment for the team. There are business support services at our disposal, meeting rooms, a cafeteria and it is an interesting an innovative building that has a host of environmental benefits. There is also scope for expansion as the business grows. For 2009 we have installed a new telephone system to improve our response times and with the increase in demand for short-notice meetings, we are now even more equipped to deliver the LateMeetings.com service. The new office supports our policy for environmental awareness in the meetings industry, continuing support for Climate Care and our www.responsiblemeetings.com website service.
We welcome visits by venue representatives and set a day aside each month to allow time for discussions about business opportunities with our venue partners. Please contact Francesca Pearson, senior client services manager, to arrange your appointment.
The quarterly printed version of Meetings News is now available please call or email for your personal copy. Tel: 08445 560656 Email: marketing@latemeetings.com
Please remember to mention LateMeetings.com and MeetingsNews when calling venues direct about the offers.
A new conference concept has been launched in Shipley, West Yorkshire at the YO YO Bar and Restaurant group. ‘Fusion Conferences’ represents a shift-change in the food served at conference and meetings events as this popular local restaurant brand moves into the conference market.
Yo Yo Shipley is a 200 capacity venue and is available for weekday meetings and events where the high quality fusion menu normally reserved for high-end diners is now part of the conference and meetings package. Delegate rates begin at £27.50 per person per day and the venue can also offer very competitive day hire rates. Yo Yo Little Germany branch in Bradford also offers meeting space for smaller training courses, meetings and events.
Sub-titled ‘Not a sausage roll in sight’ the new concept was recently launched to a selected audience of local business people in order to assess their views. Owner Simon Dunn explained the launch into the meetings and conference market with 'Fusion Conferences' and how the demand for the service emerged as lunchtime dining has declined.
‘Fusion Conference’ menus include the subtle taste of European Café Style Food with that of Japanese, Thai and Chinese food. For example; a warm bacon and mushroom salad with chats on a bed of mixed lettuce with a wholegrain mustard dressing, or alternatively pad Thai noodles with mango and peanuts.
“ ‘Fusion Conferences’ is an answer to the usual food served at many venues and a recognition that it is the food that plays a most important part in the success of any meeting or conference for the attendees. Whilst the organiser naturally needs to know that there is sufficient space, the right equipment, lighting and comfortable seating, which we have, it is the attending delegates who usually cite the food as the most important part of the experience.” comments Simon Dunn.
‘Fusion Conferences’ is available at both venues on any day of the week and to launch the concept, a special introductory offer of free room hire is available to new bookers who place two or more meeting or conference bookings during May and June 2009 for any date until the end of October 2009.
For further details please contact: Simon Dunn, Fusion Conferences, Yo Yo Bar and Restaurant, Rosse Street, Shipley, West Yorkshire, BD18 3SW Tel: 01274 599880
Email: simon@yoyocafebarandrestaurant.co.uk
Editor’s notes: Before launching Yo Yo, Simon Dunn was an independent business consultant and also a former Hilton Hotels general manager.
Stunning Summer at the Hempel
Day Delegate Rates from £59.00 per person
Offer subject to availability and valid for bookings arriving between now and the 11th September.
Minimum number of 10 delegates
Please note that these rates include the following:
Main meeting room hire
Flipchart
3 servings of tea & coffee with biscuits
Working lunch
Still & sparkling mineral water
Pens, Papers
Flipchart
Rediscover the elegance of simplicity within The Hempel, a stylish and sophisticated 5-star London luxury boutique hotel. Conceived by acclaimed British designer Anouska Hempel, this imaginative gem sets forth a new experience.
News from LateMeetings.com
By popular demand, a new service, LateMeetingsXtraSavers provides clients with additional offers and valuable 'added value' options in addition to the savings already available on the main LateMeetings.com website.
Venue packages include free items previousy charged; additional services within the daily package rate; accommodation-inclusive options and other business 'extenders'.
You can now book bedrooms online at LateMeetings.com
In association with our colleagues at LateRooms.com, accommodation bookings are now available online on the LateMeetings.com website.
Simply click the LateRooms logo on the venue of your choice - or the general link on the home page and gain access to availability and book bedrooms online. Try it here:
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