| 17 | 65 | The users | ABCevents.com users are all Meeting Planners, Travel Managers and Event Organizers of Companies, Associations and Travel Agencies at an international level and speaking one of the languages available on ABCevents.com : English, Spanish, French, German and Italian, which represents 85% of all the marketplace.
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| 19 | 65 | Why do MPs use ABCevents.com? | *To find potential suppliers and flight information.
\n*To find the necessary information for planning and organizing a corporate event anywhere in the world (meeting, congress, incentive, convention, product presentation, ...).
\n* To request quotes and manage answers
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\nTo store, organize, modify their RFPs and save information about potential suppliers.
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\nMore advantages for users
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\n* Useful They immediately find the suppliers and the information they need with no need to register
\n*Transparent and neutral: No commissions are paid by the suppliers to ABC. No advertisements are allowed during the search process.
\n*Trustworthy: Suppliers have been selected. The information is structured and up-to-date.
\n*Easy to use: All search criteria are intuitive and adapted to meeting planners needs.
\n*Practical: They can keep a record of all their requests and selections and modify them
\n*Free use
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| 23 | 65 | How do MPs contact suppliers? | * By sending them a Request for Proposal.
\n* Directly by telephone, fax or email
\n* Through a Convention Bureau, a Destination Management Company, a PCO or a Travel Agency
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| 24 | 65 | How do MPs discover ABCevents.com? | * More than 80,000 event organizers from companies, associations and agencies are personally informed via phone calls, faxes and emails.
\n* Press releases, advertising, reports in specialized media ( pharmaceuticals, automotive industry, insurance, business, secretarial, ...), press releases, advertising reports, and publicity aimed at meeting planners.
\n* In search engines
\n* During tradeshows and workshops: through information brochures.
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\n* Recommendations from meeting planners: ABCevents.com is significantly useful for supplier search and, because of its countless advantages, its use will be recommended on a widespread basis.
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| 18 | 65 | The suppliers | In ABCevents.com, you will find listed the key suppliers of the meeting industry, all of whom have been divided into 3 categories:
\n*Accommodation/Venues: Hotels, Other Accommodation, Congress Centres
\n*Coordination: Convention Bureaux, DMCs, PCOs, Incentive Houses, Specialized travel agencies.
\n*Transportation: Airlines
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| 22 | 65 | Which are the selection criteria to promote suppliers? | Suppliers are selected according to strict criteria in terms of category, location, facilities, services, price-quality relationship and experience.
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\nTo find out more about our selection criteria, please [contact us]=>contact.html
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| 49 | 65 | Hotel selection criteria | *As a Hotel, how many rooms do I need to collaborate with ABCevents.com?
\nFrom around 25 rooms, and as soon as you are used to hosting corporate
\nevents, you can benefit from working with ABCevents.com
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\n*As a Hotel, do I need to have conference rooms or facilities for meetings?
\nDefinitely not as our users are also looking for incentive hotels.
\nWhat is important for users is to be able to select hotels that are used to hosting corporate events.
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| 16 | 65 | Be online in less than 48 hours | Showcase your offer to companies, associations and agencies using ABCevents.com.
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\n1. We check that your company complies with ABCevents.com quality criteria regarding category, location, facilities, services, experience, quality-price ratio, ... and ask our collaborators and users for references.
\n2. We send you a collaboration contract and registration keys.
\n3. You insert pictures and data of your company in the back office form (estimated insertion time for 5 languages: 7 minutes) and your company goes online immediately.
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\nInterested suppliers (Hotels, Other Type of Accommodation, DMCs, Convention Bureaux, Agencies, others) can have a presence on ABCevents.com at any time as long as their facilities and services meet our selection criteria in terms of category, location, price-quality ratio, experience, ...etc
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| 26 | 65 | How much does it cost? | Suppliers pay an annual fee in order to display their information in 5 languages to our clients. For more information, please [contact us]=>contact.html
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| 25 | 65 | Do I have to pay commissions? | No
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| 21 | 65 | How much information can I load? | You can easily see the available information for each supplier by clicking on the following links:
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\n[Hotels]=>hotels.html
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\n[DMC]=>dmc.html
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\n[Agency]=>dmc.html
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\n[Convention Centre]=>congress.html
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\n[Convention Bureau]=>destinations.html
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| 27 | 65 | Can I have exclusivity? | We do not give exclusivity to any supplier as we want to preserve neutrality and provide meeting planners with all the information they need.
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