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Professional Convention & Conference Management
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Why use us to manage your next convention or conference?

Why not plan your convention or company conference with Australian Discount Travel & Tours? Our years of experience as a leading convention & conference travel specialist, combined with our exclusive arrangements with one of Australia's leading convention management companies make us your "one stop shop" when it comes to planning and organising your conferences & conference delegates' requirements. Our team can arrange venue, accommodation, air, travel insurance, delegate information packages, meals, day tours, and all those little "extras" that accompany convention planning and design. By booking through our professional team of specialist conference consultants and travel managers we'll ensure that we reduce your stress levels and make your next conference or convention a treat to remember. We even work with you within your budget to assist you create and maintain your conference or convention budget. We'll meet with you and arrange the most suitable venue to meet your specific requirements. We want your conference or meeting to be the best you've ever experienced - without creating those unspeakable pressures demanded by your budgetary or logistical requirements.

Our convention-planning and travel management credentials.

Our experienced conventions & meetings management partner carries vast experience in organising conferences and/or managing conventions. Whether your organisation requires a short 1/2 day seminar or a full 28 day conference, our exclusive convention-wise partner will bring you the best available service, derived from years of specialist experience combined with top professional management skills. Make your next conference a delight - not just for your delegates, but for you too! Based in Hobart, our convention management partner has vast experience in conference planning and has enjoyed years of success at the top of this demanding industry. This vast experience ensures your next conference will be well-planned and seamlessly professionally delivered. Notwithstanding our partner's base in Hobart - an ideal quiet, safe, & picturesque location for all conferences and conventions - we are able to facilitate conferences (& travel planning) anywhere in Australia.

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Likewise, we have years of experience as the state's leading conference & convention travel manager. For over a decade we've specialised in managing state, national and international travel requirements for large numbers of conference & convention delegates. We provide booking (and booking amendments/cancellations) via telephone, fax, online or email; providing your conference delegates with the variety of choice that will ensure their convention travel needs are facilitated in a professional, seamless manner. Our award-winning team of expert travel consultants will ensure that whether your delegates are arriving at a convention or leaving the venue for home, their travel arrangements will be completed with a minimum of fuss by our efficient & professional travel management team. We can even provide your delegates with advice & booking of a range of recreational activities, ensuring that your delegates are fully prepared for their conference and importantly, their leisure time too!

We are a fully licensed and insured international travel agency (Lic TAS156) and a full member of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA No 00002152). All registered travel agents are required to carry full Travel Compensation Fund (TCF) licenses (for insurance purposes). Our TCF License number is 7/9028. Our qualifications, licensing and company status is unquestionable and is maintained at the highest possible international levels. We compromise nothing to provide for you and your organisation a full professional travel management service.

Our Professional Partner is an Associate Fellow of Meetings Events (AFME) Australia and can provide you with the following professional convention or conference planning services:

Liaising with your convention's organising committee or key personnel.

Provide conference secretariat services.

Assist with critical seminar or conference path-planning.

Assist with conference budget planning and oversight.

Help plan your conference program.

Provide convention banking & accounting services.

Liaise with conference delegates, speakers and trade exhibitors.

Assist with venue selection and booking (Nation-wide).

Select suitable conference accommodation.

Provide seminar or conference booking services using our Events Interactive system.

Host your website or provide conference page web-development.

Make all transport arrangements to conference venues.

Create conference brochure & registration forms, and advise on printing.

Undertake all registration administration using on-line facilities.

Prepare and publish Proceedings (hard copy or CD/DVD).

Provide audio-visual advice and equipment booking.

Provide conference tickets and name tags.

Provide and pack conference satchels.

Assist with convention publicity.

Assist and/or manage your sponsorship & exhibition planning.

Assist with insurance requirements (Public Liability).

Provide on-site conference support.

Assist with theme functions and pre/post conference tours.

Provide hospitality, tour desk amenities & airport greeting/pickup.

Assist in the design of the expressions of interest brochures, conference registration brochure, call for papers and proceedings.

Host a basic conference, convention or seminar web page.

Receive and acknowledge delegate registrations online.

Book and confirm accommodation online.

Organise morning, afternoon teas and a working lunches as required.

Assist with the conference dinner preparation, venue selection and entertainment.

Produce name badges.

Staff the conference registration desk throughout the conference.

Order satchels or gifts as required.

Assist with travel, tours and incentive packages.

Assist with budgets and critical path planning.

Attend your meetings and oversee the entire planning process.

Assist others when you book your conference travel through us.

Your conference delegates will not only experience a wonderful conference or convention, but they'll appreciate the fact that having booked their travel through us, that profits from our agency by law, flow to persons of under-privileged status. Our not-for-profit travel agency is specifically founded on the principle that its company profits go to OECD-recognised "Developing Countries", such as Fiji, Colombia, India, Cambodia, South Africa & Zambia (as well as to other needy charities, missions and projects). We already donate to & support various projects in these countries and the benefit to our projects, (when your conference delegates book their travel through us) is immense!

By law our Directors (Board Members) work as volunteers, ensuring that our donation potential is maximized.

Competitive costs & outstanding conference-related experience.

Based in safe, secure & picturesque Hobart, our travel team will be able to cater to the most demanding travel plans to anywhere in the world. We are a fully licenced and insured International Travel Agent that offers conference delegates the opportunity to book their travel online (domestic or international destinations), via phone, email or fax. We even offer after-hours service. Our service fees & miscellaneous charges are the most competitive in Australia and we are fully committed to find you the best airfare available for day of travel.

Our Convention Management partner is able to work with you from early planning to final day "clean up". Let someone else worry about those details that simply "crop up" out of nowhere, often frustrating and impeding your other more important work commitments and potentially damaging or even ruining your conference.

Phone us for more details about our convention & conference travel partnership. 03 6231 3844

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Book Online International Flights & accommodation to any conference, or convention anywhere in the world.

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Useful Conference & Conventions Definitions:
Convention	A meeting or formal assembly, as of representatives or delegates, for discussion of and action on particular matters of common concern.
Conference	The act of conferring or consulting together; consultation, especially on an important or serious matter.
Seminar	Any meeting of a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
Symposium	A meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience including a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic.
Meeting	To assemble for action a conference, or other common purpose, as a committee, legislature, or class.
Summit	The highest state or degree. Or meeting of the members with the highest level of diplomatic or other governmental officials.
Congress	A formal meeting or assembly of representatives for the discussion, arrangement, or promotion of some matter of common interest. An act of coming together, an encounter, or a meeting. An association, especially one composed of representatives of various organisations.
Chairman (sometimes referred to as the "Chair")	Literally "the holder of the chair" (specifically the chair of authority). The term "man" (in "Chairman") does not in any way confer or infer gender-based attribution. Rather, the term "chairman" is used in the same context and with similar meaning to the term "manual" - designating the use of the hand to control (as in manual gearbox versus automatic gearbox). Hence the phrase "Who holds the chair?" refers to the person who controls the "chair of authority" and to the person who has authority to manage or control any procedural matters associated with a meeting.
Usher	A person who escorts people to seats in a theatre, church, etc or a person acting as an official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom, meeting place or legislative chamber.
Convener	The person or persons designated to cause to come together or assemble a group or groups of persons, usually for some public purpose.

Recent examples of conferences, seminars & conventions managed*.

*All examples personally managed by our Professional Convention Management Partner over the last 2 years.

Security Professionals Congress

Grand Hyatt Hotel

Melbourne, Vic

9 - 10 May 2007

Institute of Professional Editors National Conference

Wrest Point Convention Centre

Hobart, Tasmania

9 - 12 May 2007

Early Childhood Australia Inc - Tasmania

Wrest Point Convention Centre

Hobart, Tasmania

31 March 2007

Residential School in Electric Power Engineering

University of Tasmania

Hobart, Tasmania

21 January - 3 February 2007

Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Sullivans Cove

Hobart, Tasmania

February 9 - 12, 2007

Intelligence 2006

Sofitel Hotel

Brisbane, QLD

17 - 19 October 2006

Safeguarding Australia 2006 5th Homelands Security Summit & Exposition

National Convention Centre, Canberra, ACT

19 - 21 September 2006

Menzies Research Institute
"Introduction to the Principles and Methods of Epidemiological Research"

Hobart Function and Conference Centre
12-15 September 2006

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists 37th Annual Scientific Congress

Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Tasmania

6 - 9 November 2005

Intelligence 2005

Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney, NSW

2 - 4 November

Society of Occlusal Studies Seminar
29 - 30 October 2005

AUPEC 2005

University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania

25 - 28 September

Australian Law Libraries Group

Hadleys Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania

29 - 30 September

Chief of Army's Conference

National Convention Centre, Canberra
22 - 23 September 2005

Australian Anglican Schools Network

Launceston Church Grammar School, Launceston, Tasmania

16 - 18 September 2005

Aged and Community Services Tasmania

Federal Hotels Country Club, Launceston

August 24 - 26

Safeguarding Australia 2005 4th Homelands Security Summit

National Convention Centre, Canberra, ACT

12 - 14 July

ACROD

Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Tasmania

18 - 20 July 2005

Rhapsody 21C
The Future of University Museums and Art Galleries in the New Century, Launceston, Tasmania
25-27 May 2005

17th International Clean Air & Environmental Conference
Wrest Point Convention Centre, Hobart, Tasmania
3-6 May 2005

Future Warfighting Conference 2005
National Convention Centre, Canberra, ACT
20 - 21 April, 2005

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