Conference Planning
  • A Planning Guide
    A good conference planning resource that lays the foundation needed in order to plan, direct and host a successful conference, meeting or event.
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  • About Planning Early
    This detailed step-by-step guide to planning your conference anywhere in South Africa will ensure that your conference will run smoothly by paying attention to the details...
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  • Accompanying Spouse or Partner
    For conference delegates, accompanying spouse or partner activities can be arranged. Depending on location and venue these can be spa treatments, shopping excursions...
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  • Before You Start
    Planning for a conference or event during the process of venue selection must take in to account things like location convenience vs. travelling distance, conference budget...
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  • Business Travel Convenience
    Any business travel manager knows that travel expenditure is your company's largest controllable expense. There is an art to balancing necessity with expense in effective corporate travel planning.
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  • Checklist Conference Budget
    When organizing a meeting or event, the budget can become your ultimate event planning guide. Tips on how to work a budget for a conference or convention...
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  • Checklist Conference Planning
    A conference planning checklist is definitely required. Conference or event planning is a very complex arrangement and since not all conference planning tasks can be kept in mind, an appropriate checklist is necessary.
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  • Checklists Tracking Progress
    Conference, Event and Meeting Planning Checklists are vital for keeping track of daily and hourly details such as timeline checklist, budget checklist, site inspection checklist...
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  • Conference Catering - Budget
    Corporate event catering is a major factor impacting on the budget of your event and several things need to be considered...
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  • Conference Catering - Planning
    To make a catering plan for your successful event, you will need to assess guest profile and preferences, menu choices, serving schedules, room setup and special needs...
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  • Conference Organizing Teams
    Setting up your conference and event management team is not difficult if you follow these straight-forward event management guidelines covering who is responsible for what tasks...
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  • Conference Planning with Siyabona
    When planning a conference, Siyabona Africa Travel will be able to offer you expert and professional services and advice for a memorable and successful conference in Africa...
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  • Conference Seating Styles
    Choose the right conference seating style according to the number of delegates. Options are cinema style or classroom style for large meetings or U Shape and...
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  • Conference with Confidence
    Siyabona Conferencing and Incentives a division of Siyabona Africa Travel is a Professional Conference and Incentive Organizer with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg...
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  • Corporate Event Catering - Pre-planning
    Planning the catering for a corporate event, and fitting it into the event budget just takes a few logical steps and, more importantly, an investment in time, in order to achieve a successful corporate event...
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  • Cost Effective Corporate Travel
    Get the business-related advice of a specialized corporate travel consultant. Our business travel resources can save you time and money because we can get the best available...
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  • Critical Path Planning
    How to create a Critical Path time line plan of your event or conference tells you and your team what tasks have to be done and by what date...
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  • Event Planning - Information Management
    Managing information for a conference or event regarding supplier contact details, financial transactions taking place from start to finish of the event, and all the business operations is critical...
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  • Event Planning - Procurement
    As a meeting or event planner it's important for you to demonstrate the benefits that can be generated from your meeting or event, and also the business impact...
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  • Event Planning Checklist
    Event management is a hard job. But it's not difficult. You need to use event management checklist templates and action plans to start planning events efficiently...
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  • Event Risk Management
    Risk management deals with the possibilities of power failure, equipment failure, medical emergency, brawls, stampeding or fire. These apart from sponsorship withdrawal or last minute...
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  • Events Planning - Logistics Management
    Logistic management is all about the integrated planning and control of moving goods, merchandise equipment and people to be on the event-site
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  • Group Corporate Travel
    The conference industry is also becoming a main reason to visit South Africa. Business tourists are 6-7% of South Africa's visitors. Business tourists are choosing South Africa as their destination of choice...
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  • Guide to Success
    There are many product launch websites, books and downloadable guides to trawl through, all promising success but two factors stand out – a good team and a well thought out plan. This comprehensive guide…
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  • Host a Successful Conference
    This guide on how to host a successful conference contains tips about conference planning and conference management. Entertaining the delegates is also...
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  • Importance of Venue Selection
    Selecting the right conference venue in Johannesburg, Cape Town or Durban is made easier if you first talk to one of Siyabona's conference consultants about your requirements...
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  • Leisure After the Conference
    Leisure travel after a conference is one of the best ways to have time to reflect on and absorb ideas and concepts you have gained in a hectic three or four day run-around of business meetings, lectures and presentations...
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  • Make Every Meeting Count
    Whether you are hosting a board meeting for 10 or a Conference for 1000, there are a few pointers to consider in making your “guests” welcome, safe and appreciated.
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  • Match Venue and Theme
    It is important to match the venue with the conference theme. You could host a water-sustainability awareness conference in the Karoo Semi Desert to reinforce the...
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  • Pre and Post-Conference
    Corporate leisure and incentive travel ideas are always welcome when you have to make a quick business decision about where to go on holiday in South Africa, Mozambique or Botswana...
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  • Reinforce your Message
    Make your choice of conference or meeting venue send the right message through your choice of conference destination. That it is good for business, is easy to see...
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  • Stay Connected Whilst Travelling
    Plans you should make to have a mobile phone connection whilst travelling on business to a conference or event...
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  • Surviving that Long Conference
    Here you find tips on how to survive a long conference. Everybody should have a personal conference plan with enough time for relaxation and...
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  • Technical Requirements
    Hotel conference venues offer a high standard of equipment and services, coupled with good accommodation rates and wonderful menus as a package...
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  • Travel Incentive Ideas
    When group incentive travellers are removed from their daily work environment to exotic or unusual destinations, a great opportunity arises for breaking down barriers and building relationships...
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  • Unusual Conference Venues
    Here you find ideas for unique and unusual conference venues. Host a meeting on a houseboat in Knysna or organise a function in the Aquarium in the V & A Waterfront...
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