Plan Your Event Management for 2011

If you are involved in planning event management for your company, you must already have started looking around for your next year hopefuls. The hospitality calendar tends to fill up pretty quick at this time of year, so you will need to have all of your dates ready to go if you do not want someone else to snap up all the best places at all the best events.

For the best corporate hospitality events next year, of course, you really need to place the fate of your nights out and weekends away in the hands of an independent event management company. Independent companies are the only ones you can really trust, because they do not choose and promote events on the basis of sponsorship, affiliation or commission. Using an independent company to co ordinate your corporate hospitality for the year ahead means getting the top picks of all hospitality events available to UK companies: without ever having to worry that some of these events are being offered to honour a contractual relationship between the event management company and the company or companies putting the event on.

There are some stellar happenings waiting for all British companies next year. Not least of which is the Monaco Grand Prix - always a winner, and this year there are plenty of track side rumours about independent corporate hospitality companies that have managed to gain unprecedented access to drivers' night clubs, celebrity parties and after race bars. No client can fail to be wowed by getting the true VIP treatment at one of the most exclusive sporting events in the world. So if your event management company is lagging behind on the starting grid a little: think some more about changing to an independent organisation, which will be capable of getting your all important guests in where they want to be.

See, one of the things about corporate hospitality - the main thing, in fact, about corporate hospitality - is this. It is basically all about impressing clients so they feel disposed to spend a bunch of money with your company. As such, you cannot really afford to let your hospitality events be anything other than top of the class. That means finding an event management company that is capable of getting your guests in where they need and want to be. You are, after all, spending the money in order to make money - and you will not make any money if you do not make the right impression. Your clients are looking for the best and they will notice if what they actually get is just a little less than it could have been; particularly when they meet participants from other corporate junkets at the same place, whose own event companies have got them access to the places everyone else wants to be.

Remember that and you will be well served. Other companies have other event management assistance. If your event organiser is not up to the task then your customers are going to find out that pretty quickly.