Industry News | The Planner - Part 453

Industry News

public speaking

Unique Speaker Bureau showcase

Unique Speaker Bureau represents a number of top local and international speakers across a broad range of styles and subject-matter. Their team of professionals share their knowledge and experience to inform, enlighten and inspire their audiences...
looking to the past

Looking back to move forward

Reflecting on the past year, the interactions, relationships and the people, Monique Swart has a few wishes for 2014.  As a service-driven industry, I think that it’s often easy to lose sight of the basics and I hope that people start really...
sell yourself

Selling your story

Think you go out shopping for products and services? Wrong. What you really shop for are stories. For those in marketing and selling, you better make sure you know what story you’re selling advises Justin Cohen. The Porsche Cayenne and a VW Touareg...
Super planner app

Top six apps for event planning

It time that you lose that back-breaking events binder. SA Conference brings you the best apps that will make your smartphone into a virtual meeting binder.   Super planner This is the app for the professional event planner. It provides a...
choice

The high cost of too much choice

Monique Swart finds it interesting – and sometimes fairly alarming – that many companies do not see the importance of consolidating their travel and meetings spend. There seems to be a belief that consolidation limits choice. This can be true, but...
skills

Skills training in Africa

On recent trips to Angola and Ghana to host the African Business Travel Association (ABTA) forums for local travel industry professionals, the issue of basic skills training was identified by delegates as a key challenge in these regions. My...
service

To serve or not to serve

Event planning is all about offering a service. Great service means repeat business. Justin Cohen shares his top tips on how you can offer your clients the best possible service. When I talk to leaders about what differentiates their organisations...
City Lodge logo

City Lodge to keep guests connected for longer

City Lodge Hotel Group has increased the complimentary Wi-Fi availability at its hotels, with effect from January 1. The group now offers one hour of complimentary Wi-Fi access per day at its Courtyard, City Lodge and Town Lodge brands. It also now...
Cape Town

It is Cape Town's year

The New York Times has released its travel list, 52 places to go in 2014 and Cape Town is number one. Cape Town is also the Design Capital of the World this year. The city’s diversity and close proximity to a number of different attractions,...