Conference Centres and Venues - Want More Business?

Conference Centres and Venues do a remarkable job and offer clients all manner of services to their clients. Many are partnered with accommodation providers, restaurants, clubs and attractions in their localities, adding great value to the attraction of the destination for delegates and an incentive to attend. It is therefore rather perplexing to me that, with a small number of very notable exceptions, that any thought of how delegates will actually travel to their destination is often overlooked. Perhaps an obligatory mention in the 'How to find us' section of the website. With today's focus on sustainability and value for money, is this a missed opportunity for all of us? Is there any opportunity here to enhance your sustainability credentials and create productive time for delegates? Well, why not consider encouraging confernence and event organisers to include travel as part of their decision making process?

Clearly, here at Train Groups and Charters, we do quite a lot of work in providing charter trains, exclusive-use carriages and general rail group travel arrangements for delegates off to their conferences and company events. But for every client that we help there must be many others who leave this travel element up to individual choice. This open the door to self-driving, incurring the company with reimbursement of fuel and parking costs and leaving the driver with an unproductive journey in terms of doing any work. So, if conference clients want to consider moving delegates by train, what can we do to help?

Well, firstly, we can run through the cost and availability of all of the available options. and we do this completely free of charge and without any obligation.

Charter trains can easily mover many hundreds of people, all together in one place. Having everyone travelling together means that your journey time suddenly becomes productive time. Get the conference admin out of the way by issuing event information, check delegates into their accommodation, entertain them and excite them about the forthcoming event, or just do some ice-breaking tasks to get everyone engaging. You can also make the train your own with event branding and catering choices to meet all budgets.

Venues - we love you, but our admiration would be even more enhanced if you could see your way to encouraging your conference and event clients to talk to us too. What can we do to help - we're all ears.