Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

3.19.2009

Convention Hotels For Your Business

Business works are quite time consuming and very tedious. One of the things that businessmen do is join seminars and conventions that help them improve their craft. Others make their own seminars and conventions to train their employees to become more efficient.

To be able to organize such conventions or seminars, they would need to have a big space or place where the event will take place. It should be big enough to accommodate all the participants. They should also have the right equipment needed for the convention. It would include a very dependable sound system, computer, visual aid equipment and many more.

Aside from the technicalities, any business gathering will also require some food to feed the participants, hosts or speakers, and organizers.

Here are some of the hotels considered convention hotels because they focus more on providing venues for business purposes.

Hotel de Vendome

This hotel is located at the Central Paris, France. It is called Hotel de Vendome because it is located in Vendome. This hotel has an opulent design both in the inner and outer portion of the hotel. Its lobby is fully marbled and lighted with many crystal chandeliers.

This hotel only has twenty nine guestrooms despite the fact that it is a five storey hotel. All their rooms are wood paneled. It is decorated with designer fabrics. Each has antique furniture and tapestries. Almost all the things in their hotel are remotely controlled. This includes the lights, curtains and music.

The hotel offers meeting rooms and also presidential suite for conferences. Their business center not only has complete facilities, they also have complimentary newspapers and translation services. These are all included in their conference packages.

Hotel de Vendome has the Grand Vendome Restaurant and bar the style of a traditional British Club. It is adorned with Chesterfield furniture. Its wood panel is made of Mahogany. The breakfast served maybe continental or American buffet. Lunch and dinner can be done in their restaurant that serves French Gourmet Cuisines. They also serve Live Jazz played by their Pianist on Thursdays to Saturdays evening.

This hotel offers free charge to children below five years old. They allow pets with a minimum fee. There is medical assistance available. You can also have computer rentals in here.

Here are some of the area attractions of the Hotel: Jardin Des Tuileries, Place De La Concorde, Place De La Madeleine, Champs Elysees, Palais Royal, and Notre-dame Cathedral.

Gioberti Hotel

The main feature of this hotel is the garden and television room on site. They have a total of eighty two guestrooms, all fully air conditioned. These guest rooms feature tiled floors and furnishing of very traditional designs. All rooms have mini bars. They serve daily complementary newspapers. Their bathrooms are complete with bathrobes and complementary toiletries.

The hotel has a meeting room that can accommodate up to twenty five people only. There are complimentary newspapers provided in the lounge.

Gioberti Bar serves all kinds of drinks and snacks. They have complimentary continental buffet breakfast too. This breakfast includes cold cuts, cheese and breads too.

Children of 2 years old and below are admitted for free. The hotel does not allow pets. They provide tour assistance for all their visitors.

Nearby are many beautiful attractions worth seeing, like the Basilica Of Santa Maria Maggiore, Piazza Della Republica, Coliseum, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Piazza Navona And Pantheon, and St. Peter's Church And Vatican Museum.

For more information on Convention Cruises and Convention Flights please visit our website

WELCOME TO MALANG REGENCY TOURISM


Malang is one of clean and cool cities in East Java has, without any doubt, been famous since long time ago. Historical remmants scattered around Malang Showing that it hat played important roles in may eras and stretching out from 112° 17' 10,90° up to 112° 57' 0,00° east Longitude and extending from 7° 44' 55,11° up to 8° 26' 35,45° South Latitude.

Malang regency is bordered by Blitar and Kediri Regencies on the West; Jombang, Mojokerto and Pasuruan Regencies on the North; Probolinggo and Lumajang Regencies on the East and Indian Ocean on the South.

Malang is known with its beautiful beaches. There are many tourists who always visit Malang's beaches in holiday. The beaches are Ngliyep beach, Balekambang beach, and Sendang Biru beach.
Then the foreign tourists are commonly interesting to Malang's temples that save the historical value of the past Kingdom in Malang regency, they are; Singosari temple, Jago temple, Kidal temple, etc. Beside that, Malang still has a lot of tourism objects that will attract you to visit it. Coban Rondo waterfall, Wonosari tea plantation, Wendit pool, mount Kawi, mount Bromo panorama, Coban Pelangi waterfall, Karangkates recreation park, and the others, are Malang's interesting places that presents their nature scenery.

Also visit Malang City Tour that offers its interesting places such as; City Hall, Monument Juang'45, bird and flowers market, senaputra park, kayu tangan complex, City Square, Senaputra Park, etc.

http://www.eastjava.com/tourism/malang/

3.18.2009

What to Look For in Travel Health Insurance

This article is as a response to the plethora of articles and websites out there regarding Travel Health Insurance.

As somebody relatively new to the "insurance" field (i come from a background of life assurance and medical aid), I consider it important to understand what it is, that should be looked for in Travel Health Insurance?

Especially so, as in South Africa, many medical aids cover you for 90 days out of the country (International coverage) for medical expenses. You also get "free" travel insurance from the banks (underwritten by insurance companies) when you buy your travel ticket on your credit card.

So...my first question is "Why do I want to buy Travel Health Insurance?"

In answering that, I would say that it is because I want Certainty that if something happens to myself or my fellow travellers that requires medical treatment, that the cost is borne by my insurance.

Imagine the alternative...being 'stranded' in a strange country, not being able to speak the language and having no Travel Health Insurance!

Not hard to imagine is it?

I would probably have a heart attack from the stress.

So Advantage no. 1 is that I would buy Travel Health Insurance for CERTAINTY.

Then, I would look at the product and ask myself a few further questions:

How much cover do I need?

As the medical event/ accident would be unplanned. How could I possibly answer this, I simply do not know.

So I would want unlimited cover. And to make sure that the insurance company would pay the actual cost of my care (within acceptable reason).

After all, why are there limits on cover? Purely for the insurance company to limit its risk.

Will the insurance company arrange payment directly with the hospital/provider? If I am seriously injured, I am going to want to know that I am being taken care of, without needing to arrange everything myself.

I am at a loss even trying to negotiate with a street vendor!

Then, just in case I am going to a place where the medical care might not be of a high standard...

Will the insurer pay for me to be evacuated to a place where I can be properly cared for?

If necessary, can I be repatriated to my home country?

I also know that when I am travelling that I don't have much in the way of excess money, so I do not want a deductible on my insurance. What would happen if I couldn't pay the deductible?

I like to try different things so I don't want any restrictions on hazardous pursuits, because while I am travelling, I want to be able to enjoy myself (even if it includes a little bungy jumping, skiing or parasailing) and I Do not want to spend my time worrying about my insurance cover.

I hope that this helps when you are looking at buying Travel Health Insurance. The questions are usually answered with different priorities for different people, but it helps to consider them just the same.

Always remember to check your policy conditions and to be happy with them before you travel. However, the more conditions, the more I am put off.

Happy travelling!

Kenny Williamson began his insurance career in the commissions area at Southern Life in 1989. He then fulfilled different roles within the "Agency Field" area

In 2001, Southern Life was amalgamated with Momentum Life and Kenny stayed on to help ensure the smooth transition of the Southern Life Agency Force payroll to Momentum Life. Thereafter, he was contracted to Capital Alliance to help ensure the remainder of the Southern Life Agency force payroll was smoothly integrated there

After the stint at Capital Alliance, he went on sabbatical to Israel and spent time with Mother Nature in a Kibbutz, finishing this with an exploratory trip to Ireland. On his return to South Africa, he became a consultant with Discovery Consulting Services Peninsula, at which he excelled for three and a half years

In 2007, he left to join a brokerage and get 'closer' to the client. He now runs his website http://www.businessowner-cover.com and comments on industry issues