Planning group cruises and meetings at sea has always been a relatively simple task. This is largely due to the ease of planning that comes with all-inclusive pricing and the convenience of organizing lodging, meeting space, food and beverage, entertainment and décor in one simple process. However, Seasite.com has now made it even easier to plan corporate cruises and meetings on cruise ships with the introduction of their user-friendly planner guides.

These new cruise planning guides go well beyond the typical ship information available to travel planners and include the information that you really need to know when planning functions at sea. These easy-to-use guides include previously unpublished information, such as:

• Capacity of function rooms
• Information about outdoor function venues
• Meeting space grids
• Information about group dining options

This meeting-specific information that is critical to meeting planners and corporate travel planners has never before been made easily available, until now.

Check out Seasite.com’s cruise planning guides the next time you need to plan a meeting or event at sea, and you will see just how simple these online cruise planning tools are to use.

Follow these simple steps to easily access ship information for your next event:

1. Go to Seasite.com.
2. From the home page, click on Meeting Venues.
3. Select a ship from the A-Z ship directory.
4. When the ship details appear, click on Planner’s Guide.

Ignite, Canada’s innovative meetings magazine, provides event planners fresh ideas and strategies for meetings and conferences as well as special Hot Rates & Dates from hotel meeting venues

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) November 24, 2009 — Successful meeting planning has just been made easier for event management professionals with the launch of Ignite Magazine’s new website. The site, a companion to the print magazine, offers event planning professionals access to a wealth of educational articles designed to assist in meetings and events production; incentive programs; and tips for corporate travel planners and association and corporate meeting executives.

Plus, Ignite’s special Hot Rates & Dates section at http://ignitemag.ca/hot_rates is helping companies save money and find the best sites for business events, with the most up-to-date offers from an array of hotels, meeting facilities, airlines and other suppliers.

The Ignite Magazine website offers articles on topics from teambuilding ideas to incentive programs; sample RFPs and budget checklists; and useful planning tools such as a room space calculator to assist in booking appropriate space. Event planners can also find tools for conference event management, such as a guide on how to successfully spread responsibilities among an organizing committee.

Recognizing that corporate travel managers play an integral role in administering cost-effective, results-driven programs for their companies, Ignite Magazine’s website features tips and strategies tailored to business travel planners. The site features a corporate travel planner’s guide to cost-conscious travel, business travel tips for successful corporate travel programs, and recent articles on corporate travel policy and how to manage a company’s travel risks.

Ignite Magazine’s Hot Rates + Dates offers special packages from meeting venues across Canada and the U.S., assisting meeting planning professionals in getting the most out of their budgets. Hot Rates + Dates include everything from special room rates and rebates to airline miles and event planner points. The launch of the new Ignite Magazine website comes on the heels of the publication’s first anniversary and marks a new era for the meetings magazine in its ability to serve the event planners community with contemporary strategies in an increasingly competitive environment.

For more information about Ignite Magazine, visit www.ignitemag.ca.

About Ignite Magazine: Ignite Magazine offers fresh, new resources for people who plan and manage meetings, events, business travel, promotions and incentive programs. The magazine’s mission, in print and online, is to provide event and meeting planning professionals with information, inspiration, guidance and great ideas for everything from conference services and event management details to corporate travel management and unique business gift ideas.