Meetings

The great thing about meetings is that in their most basic form they are very simple, yes when you have big sets etc it can get more complicated however the basis of being diffferent is where you do it.

The desert is always a great place to begin. We can pretty much do what we want out there, tents that used to come on the back of a pick up ten years ago now come with air conditioning and toilets... imagine having camels at the coffee break.. wild!

Dubai's beaches offer us the same flexibility.. and we can make the screens easier to read although it's not brilliant. However it is ideal for running work shops.. in the sun each delegate gets a beach bed instead of a chair from the banquets department.

Alternatively what about a progressive meeting, at somewhere like Madinat Jumeriah we could do this around the souk using the restaurants.. or perhaps around Dubai using a double decker London bus.. we'd set the coffee break up on the bus itself. We'd use three or four locations having meetings in each one, lunch could be at any of these locations.

Here's an example Itineary.

09:00hrs  Morning Coffee in the groups hotel, meeting opens in their Ballroom.

10:30hrs  Guests board double Decker bus and transfer 10 mins to Dhow

11:00hrs  On board the Dhow the meeting continues.

12:30hrs  Meeting finishes and guests transfer to Hilton Dubai Creek for lunch in Gordon Ramsey's restaurant Verre

14:45hrs  Guests arrive at a desert meeting room after a short transfer by landcruiser, the meeting continues.

16:45hrs  Meeting breaks again, this time the guests are taken on a short safari finishing at the sunset bar where the VIP or MC makes the closing speeches and the meeting is over.

The Arabic night then starts with a Falcon display