Did you know?

• Great Hotels Organisation has six Meeting Forums scheduled for 2006, in London, Paris, New York, Frankfurt, Amsterdam/Brussels and Scandinavia.
  
  
• The 45 hotels who participated in the two-day Paris Meeting Forum had an average of 32 meetings each.
  
  
• GHO’s dedicated Conference Desk receives 50 enquiries per month from planners and agents based in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, USA, Australia and New Zealand. The requests-for-proposals cover meetings and incentives groups, training events, launches and fashion shows.
  
  
• The Conference Desk recently placed 400,000 Euros worth of business at the BlauPortoPetro Beach Resort & Spa in Mallorca, following an enquiry from The 1 Call Company in the UK. It was looking for a venue for sports brand, Speedo, to hold a week-long fashion event; 220 room nights and several meeting rooms are booked for May 2006.
  
  
• Proving that the desk is able to handle all types and sizes of requests, a group of 25 from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has been confirmed for a corporate event at Madeira Palácio Resort Hotel this November – a booking worth 6,000 Euros.