No matter if you are meeting in Canada or the United States,  Niagara Falls offer a beautiful and exciting place to hold your business meeting. Not only is it “the” place to go for scenic beauty and to witness the raw power of nature in its fluid form, Niagara Falls (Canada or New York) is home to many other activities away from the falls.

With thousands of hotel rooms available to visitors, there are tours, golf courses, casinos, and wineries, among other activities. There are also several different ways to view to falls. You can walk the Rainbow Bridge, take a ride out on a power boat, or transverse the falls in a helicopter for spectacular aerial views. When you’re done with your tour, fill your empty tank at one of the amazing local restaurants, some with unique views of the falls.

What about the meeting space? There are lots of properties now that offer plenty of high-tech space for conferences, and more is being created every day. Hotels and resorts are also springing up, adding plenty of meeting space.

Once the darling of honeymoon couples, businesses can now take advantage of one of the most stunning places on earth at Niagara Falls. To miss it is to miss a great opportunity to keep your meeting and event clients very happy.

Most people want to perform well at their jobs. It makes a difference in their paychecks, their futures, and their lives. But to make a difference in someone else’s life is important to many people, too. A meeting planner has the power not only to do that as an individual, but also as a professional. In fact, what a meeting planner does with just one meeting can make a huge impact on the community surrounding the event. This makes the concepts of “reduce, reuse, recycle” a critical component of his or her job.
The first step of this for meeting planners is reduce. This does not mean where can you cut corners, but where can you cut costs as well as waste. For instance, do the conference participants really need a plastic bag full of coupons for local restaurants and key chains with the event title on them? Probably not. Many conferences now use canvas bags, but they are slim and do not hold much. You might increase the sales of vendors who attend as well as provide a reusable resource by providing grocery-sized canvas bags. You could also eliminate any plastic gimmicky-looking doodads in favor of energy bars. Read the rest of this entry »