Presentation of the business tourism market

There are a large number of players who can accompany you in the organisation of your events and offer you the sites available for accommodation and meetings.

The sites: hotels, conference centres, chateaux…. They don’t have the status of an intermediary and offer you their service at a rate based upon the season, their economic situation, the size of the business volume that you bring to them. They are surrounded by quality partners who are very familiar with their site in order to provide you with the peripheral services such as transportation, entertainment, audiovisual…

The venue finder:

Highly developed in the USA in the 80’s, and then in Great Britain in the 90’s, the venue finder arrived on the French market in 2000. The venue Finder is a specialist who concentrates his expertise on the selection and the recommendation of most suitable sites for hosting an event.

This specialisation provides the market with rapidity, fluidity, perfect knowledge of the products proposed and purchasing power made available to the end-client.

The venue finder receives a commission on the sales volume brought to the hotel, for the best price that they can obtain at the requested date. The hotels make the commitment to not increase their prices on account of the payment of a commission.

The venue finder obtains the best prices because, whilst the other intermediaries mostly buy less than one hundred events per year, a venue finder – such as Business Profilers – treats more than 3000.

The specific capability of Business Profilers among the venues finders is to recommend, in a very transparent way, its strict selection of quality partners in the guides and on its internet site to all of its end-clients or intermediaries.

The DMC “Destination Management Company”:

By definition they have a good knowledge of the destination that they represent. They are specialised in the logistical organisation and the supplying of peripheral services in the primary event area (transfers, dinner and shows, cultural evenings, fun outings …), particularly for the requirements of international events. The majority of the time, they purchase on your behalf from each of the agents and then supply you with a total invoice. They regularly call upon the services of the venues finders in order to rapidly find the available sites.

Event agencies and communication

They work, above all, on the complete setting up of the event, promotion of the message to be communicated, respecting the client’s strategic objectives. Their added value lies in their organisational capacity and creative ability to cover large events. Most of the time, they rely upon the expertise of the venues finders to find them the site or sites that are able to receive their events.

The incentives house

They are specialised in the given themes or fields in order to provide you with solutions so as to motivate or reward your team. Their added value lies in the peripheral activities proposed in connection with the accommodation and the meeting. They generally entrust the search of the sites to venue finders.