5 Invitation Tips to Boost Meeting and Event Attendance

The most perfect event is nothing without attendees. This often overlooked aspect is in turn part dependent upon how and when your invitation is sent and its content. Subtle changes can have a big effect on your potential attendance; it can be the difference for someone who is merely...

How to Find a Keynote Speaker

When planning any sort of event, long or short, one of the most challenging aspects is finding a keynote speaker. This can at first seem overwhelming, particularly if you are new to event planning. But, just like event planning itself, if you break it down into a series...

More Corporate Travel Department Heads are Taking Charge of Meetings Management and Planning

A Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) survey finds that an increasing number of travel managers are charged with risk management, strategic meetings management planning (SMMP), and other responsibilities. Although their titles might be Travel Manager or, Travel Director, more and more travel department heads are taking on meeting management...

Hotel industry predicts best results in 6 years

The economic upturn is being felt by the hotel industry, with occupancy levels up and a bright outlook for profits, reports PwC. The key indicator of revenue per available room should increase by nearly 6% this year and over 6% in 2014. There are a few reasons for this:...

6 Things to Make Your Business Trips a Breeze

Business travel can pose a challenge to even the most organized, best-financed and most resourced executive The good news is that it doesn’t need to be unbearable. This post gives you 6 tips that can help to minimize your frustration, increase your efficiency and, we hope, make your trips...

Royal Coachman Worldwide Meeting Tips: The Best Corporate Events to Plan this Summer

In the world of corporate events, most winter plans are the more traditional seminars and conferences. The summer months expand the possibility of incorporating outdoor venues and destinations. Employee recognition days, team building events or even new service launches can be much more engaging against the backdrop that the...

Royal Coachman Meeting Tips: NYC’s Eventi Adds Meeting App for Group and Meeting Clients

Recently, Eventi, a New York Kimpton Hotel, debuted an original customizable meeting app for its meetings group clients. The 292-room hotel, working in tandem with PSAV, can now offer the PSAV Mobile Manager (M3) application to group meetings allowing them to use their smartphones and tablet computers as interactive...

Word of Mouth Still Most Important for Tradeshow Attendees

Some of our customers are active participants and organizers of tradeshows, so this post brings you some potentially surprising findings on the subject. A recent report, by CEIR, reveals that the old word-of-mouth communication methods are the most important when considering attendance at a tradeshow. In our ever connected...

Royal Coachman’s Meetings & Events News Update

The Senate recently rejected a proposed amendment to a budget bill that was to have set a limit on the number of Federal Employees permitted to attend a specific conference of meeting. The proposed amendment would have limited the participation to 25 Federal Employees at a single event. It...

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