The Comprehensive Guide to Successful Conferences and Meetings: Detailed Instructions and Step–by–Step Checklists

Offering detailed advice on organizing, managing, and conducting a successful conference or meeting, the authors provide extensive checklists and charts to guide meeting planners through every step of the process, including deciding on the purpose and design of the conference, selecting a site and choosing function rooms, creating a participant program book, coordinating related activities to make the conference more successful, making special arrangements for VIPs and handicapped attAndees, and evaluating and following up on the conference.

Spis treści:
1. The Changing Conference and Meeting Scene
2. Designing the Conference
3. Four Useful Designs
4. Handling Related Events And Activities
5. Site Selection
6. Meeting and Function Rooms
7. Presenters and Speakers
8. Use of Audiovisuals
9. Food and Beverage Functions
10. Coordinating Exhibitions
11. Planning for Companions
12. Effective Marketing
13. Public Relations
14. transportation Issues
15. Entertainment Possibilities
16. Developing a Budget
17. The Registration Process
18. Preparing a Participant Program Book
19. Evaluation and Follow–Up
20. Conducting the Conference
21. Resources for Conference and Meeting Planners

Okładka tylna:
Offering detailed advice on organizing, managing, and conducting a successful conference or meeting, the authors provide extensive checklists and charts to guide meeting planners through every step of the process, including deciding on the purpose and design of the conference, selecting a site and choosing function rooms, creating a participant program book, coordinating related activities to make the conference more successful, making special arrangements for VIPs and handicapped attAndees, and evaluating and following up on the conference.