Benchmark Hospitality’s Top 10 Meeting Trends for 2007

This is a useful and easy to read checklist for hotels with Meeting and Conference facilities.

This benchmark was conducted on hotels in the US and Asia – but are relevant for our local market – and there are some ‘cool’ ideas. For example, how about culinary team building – now that’s different, and after watching Gordon Ramsay in Hells Kitchen the mind does rather boggle. Not every team event needs to be about scaling cliffs or forging rivers in home-made rafts or other life threatening physical feats, though I could imagine the kitchen becoming quite a devilish environment too!

And then there is the constant quest by meeting planners (who are they – see the article) for new venues. And hey – in South Africa we have a diversity of places to knock the socks off any one!