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Pack Them Into Hawaii with Inclusive Travel Packaging
By Toby Brenner
For USAE News, August 2005
Hawaii is a truly unique and beautiful meeting destination.
Ron Adams, senior director of sales and marketing for the Hawaii Convention Center says meeting planners and delegates find Hawaii to be an unmatched destination. “Hawaii’s strategic location makes it the only city in the U.S. where business can be conducted from New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore in the same day. The islands are the center for technology, agriculture, international relations, Pacific Rim cultures and international trade,” says Adams.
Hawaii’s appeal also attracts the attendance of higher-level decision makers. “While corporations may send associates to less appealing locations, business conducted in Hawaii often draws presidents and CEOs that carry the clout needed to close deals,” according to Adams.
Getting your attendees to Hawaii
While advantages of convening in the islands are many, typically, there is little or no regional attendance to count on. And, unlike other convention centers within the United States that offer multiple forms of transportation, Hawaii’s island location only affords arrival by airplane. This means airfares and accessibility by airline is a critical factor to a successful meeting in Hawaii, especially when convention organizers routinely compete with travel wholesalers to keep their delegates within the official hotel block. But there is a solution.
Par Avion Meetings & Conventions based in Los Angeles, Calif. has developed a unique Hawaiian package service. The package includes wholesale airfare and rooms from within the official convention block. The program can utilize existing or future contracted hotel rooms. Convention organizers have piece of mind knowing that delegates are booking inside the official convention block while convention participants benefit from taking advantage of package discounts including airfare, official block hotel rooms, lei greeting, airport transfers, sightseeing tours, and outer island extensions.
Jim Sweeny, former CEO of ADA Business Enterprises, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Dental Association), says, “Attendees often go outside the air and housing blocks to book with a package. With Par Avion’s Hawaii package service, they can do it through the official hotel room blocks and it counts.”
Adams agrees and says he sees many benefits for meeting planners and conventioneers when utilizing a program like Par Avon’s Hawaii package service. “Conventioneers save money when booking through this service. For busy executives, this service reduces the time required to research competitive airfare and hotel costs. Since the packaging method requires confirmation of both air and hotel at the time of the reservation, meeting planners benefit by having an idea of the overall attendance count,” he says.
By utilizing an experienced conference housing, travel and registration company, such as Par Avion, that also has the ability to package air and land programs into Hawaii, convention organizers get the best of both worlds.
To enquire about Par Avion’s Hawaiian Travel Package service, call Par Avion Meetings & Conventions toll free at 800-927-8137.
E-mail: aloha@paravion-inc.com.
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