Business travels and events planner

I am interested in working as a travel and event planner for business men and women. Such a job needs:

·       To contact different companies and to organise their seminars, congresses and business travels

·       To convey original concepts to each project in order to reflect companies’ brand name and public image

·       To offer competitive prices

·       To set up marketing campaigns to sell projects

·       To analyse the tourism market

·       To get partnerships with transport, accommodation, catering and design companies and select partners according to the services provided

·       To negotiate contracts

·       To follow through the missions of the different partners and coordinate them so that themes of events, budgets and deadlines can be respected

·       To run a planners team

·       To manage emergency situations

·       To communicate on the planned events to customers

·       To supervise the smooth running of business events and travels

·       To identify positive and negative points to anticipate new projects

Travel and event planning requires specific skills such as:

·       Creativity and originality

·       Ability to communicate

·       A good organisation

·       Budgeting knowledge

·       Commercial skills

·       A deep knowledge of tourism activities

·       Reactivity / anticipation

·       Stress and time control

·       Team work / adaptation

·       Sense of responsibility