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NEWS FOR MEETING PLANNERS

	HOW WORK WITH DESTINATION MANAGEMENT COMPANIES

	Some meeting planners can't live without them. Otheres aren't quiete sure what they do. And still others don't even know they do. And still others don't even know they exist. In a similar fashion to the meeting industry, destination management companies have struggled to define a profession and create standards of service. But just like their meeting plannercounterparts, DMC are uniting, educating themselfves and their clients and elevating thier profession. According to the Asociation of Destination Management Executives (ADME), a DMC is a professional services company, possessing extensive local knowledge, expertise and ressources, specializing in the design and implementation of events, activities, tours, transportation and program logistics. But many DMC have found that not all planners understand the true role-and therefore, value-that they bring to the table. Some planners feel guilty "outsourcing" their work. WHAT ARE DMC ? DMC are fairly news. the rise of meetings and conventions in the 1970 created new services needs nd transportation companies saw an increase in requests for various types of vehicles (buses, limousins, ect...) as well for additional serivces. The term "ground" operator" made a lot of sense. Once ground operators began providing these new services, the term "destination management" emerged as a more accurate way of describing what a DMC were actually doing.

	WHAT'S YOUR BEST PRICE ON A BEDROOM ?

	Many buyers in the association world have limited experience of negociating with hotels, and do not clearly understand the business objectives that drive hotel negociating positions. Similary, hotels are more used to dealing with corporate meetings and intermediary agencies, whose needs and buying behaviour can be very different from those of assocition planners withwhom they are less familiar. Here are some typical hotel perceptions of assocition events: lowed spend than corporate events. Lack of guarantees on room block, therfore higher risk.Lead time too long. Negociation process too complex. Overhall value of event not clear. For the association buyer, the biggest challenge is to evercome this type of negative and often incorrect perception. There are two essential components to achieving this: understanding hotel business objectives. Provding relevant information about your event. Each interenaitonal association meeting enquiery is weighed agains the hotels yield management criteria, to see whether it is a "good" piece of business. Most yield management systems help the hotels to fix prices and ideam business mixes across numerous segements. Hotel bedroons and meeting space are "perishable goods", which have a zero the day after they appear in the diary. Hotels are therefore much more flexible with busines wich is short lead, and can fill space which would otherwise remain unsold. The association buyer usually deal either with the hotel sales manager or with a negotiator in the conference & banqueting team. Large events may involve regional sales director or even the hotel general manager. These individuals will have varying levels of negociating power and authority.

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