You miss the point again.
A major issue in expanding business conference trade is lack of hotel rooms.
The rooms need to be provided to get the business first.
The fact that you can get a few rooms this week is irrelevant if there is nothing on.
You can always get a room at the NEC but they are still building a new 170 room hotel.
At the moment yes, I agree.
But if you intend to expand the corporate business then you need to increase number of rooms.
Case in point is the 2 major weekend events in March and April where I believe ALL rooms are sold out.
If this is the case then they are loosing business, both for these weekends and and other potential events that need accommodation.
Not sure why people are getting so hung up ,on whether there is a need for a new hotel(s) at the Ricoh Arena. The Council/ACL obviously think so, presumably based on their on going business projections. If they are right then the new hotel will flourish and make money, if they are wrong then the hotel will fail. The success or failure of which, is unlikely to be known for several years.
We proved that there isnt a shortage - the NEC is far bigger and has less available rooms
'We' didn't prove anything....you uncovered one night when there were 'some' rooms available in the city (and didn't disclose what rate you would pay for a decent 4* property). Some of us in the know in the hospitalty/hotel industry, know that 4* hotels (not your Ramadas, P.Inns, Travelodges etc) are normally full in city/large town on a Mon-Weds night and potentially Thurs/Fridays when large events are on.
WM
How many 4* hotels are in Coventry?
Grendel, Torch,...This obsession with the Council and ACL ( and nothing ever about the owners) whilst pretending you are 'only interested in the club'... On and on and on.
Anyone would think you are full of shit.
How many 4* hotels are in Coventry?
You miss the point again.
A major issue in expanding business conference trade is lack of hotel rooms.
The rooms need to be provided to get the business first.
The fact that you can get a few rooms this week is irrelevant if there is nothing on.
You can always get a room at the NEC but they are still building a new 170 room hotel.
When a big event like the motor show is on you can never get a room at the NEC. As already stated we had to use numerous hotels for staff and many were in Coventry.
You seem to know a lot about this. Are you an experiential manager?
How many pages can you drag this non CCFC related story out to?
I'll try and get it to 45>
although I think 50 >
How many pages can you drag this non CCFC related story out to?
How many pages can you drag this non CCFC related story out to?
Multi-faceted leisure amenity? I like it. Much better than community asset. However, what actually goes on there for the community apart from gambling in the casino, the gym and psychic sally? This isn't a piss-take I just wondered what "community" events took place there? After all that was part of Richardson's vision, wasn't it? A 365 facility.
When a big event like the motor show is on you can never get a room at the NEC. As already stated we had to use numerous hotels for staff and many were in Coventry.
You seem to know a lot about this. Are you an experiential manager?
Lets just say I'm your superior :thinking about:
Multi-faceted leisure amenity? I like it. Much better than community asset. However, what actually goes on there for the community apart from gambling in the casino, the gym and psychic sally? This isn't a piss-take I just wondered what "community" events took place there? After all that was part of Richardson's vision, wasn't it? A 365 facility.
When a big event like the motor show is on you can never get a room at the NEC. As already stated we had to use numerous hotels for staff and many were in Coventry.
You seem to know a lot about this. Are you an experiential manager?
That did mane me laugh -- geniunely what's your experience in conference hosting and events management?
Said the man making post 433....
Thank goodness mines moved it on to 438.
If the camping and caravan club held an event there would they need to book any rooms?
A football team plays at the Ricoh.........do tell me more.As a Conference centre, hotels are usually vital - Telford International Centre has 3 of them onsite and can handle virtually anything. However, the location of the Ricoh being so central means hotels are not so important. A major retailer held a 5 day conference there recently and hardly anyone needed to stay as it is reachable from so much of the country.
Surely what we really want is a football team playing there and a Car park C full of cars.
With all the possible pitches in the Arena ?
In a previous job we were booked as a department to go and have a team building weekend in Cardiff of all places. This had farce written all over it from the start as none of us wanted to go and it just went downhill from there. Whoever in HR (and no-one owned up) booked it didn't check the sporting schedules as there was a massive rugby match on that weekend at the Millennium Stadium. So the city is heaving with drunk rugby fans to begin with, then at the very last minute the MD for the firm decides he wants to come along and they have to try and find him a room. The rest of us are out at the Holiday Inn Express because we were booked in aeons ago (and it's cheap) whereas he has to stay at the Thistle in the centre for some extortionate rate, because it was one of the few rooms left in the city.Think that Alexei Sayle once said " If anybody uses the word "workshop" and they're not a carpenter, they're a twat".
Wise words.
Can't they just stay in your camper van?
In a previous job we were booked as a department to go and have a team building weekend in Cardiff of all places. This had farce written all over it from the start as none of us wanted to go and it just went downhill from there. Whoever in HR (and no-one owned up) booked it didn't check the sporting schedules as there was a massive rugby match on that weekend at the Millennium Stadium. So the city is heaving with drunk rugby fans to begin with, then at the very last minute the MD for the firm decides he wants to come along and they have to try and find him a room. The rest of us are out at the Holiday Inn Express because we were booked in aeons ago (and it's cheap) whereas he has to stay at the Thistle in the centre for some extortionate rate, because it was one of the few rooms left in the city.
When we were only three minutes into the first "workshop" someone yelled Bingo rather too loudly as they'd just marked off a line on their bullsh!t bingo card that we'd made. The people running the course were useless and at the start a mate who'd done a similar thing before said that when we get to the end they'll say "you need to communicate more as a department". That apparently is the normal thing for these people to say. so sure enough at 3pm on the Sunday we reached the conclusion where they presented their report on us and the first thing and pretty much the only thing they say is "you need better communication between team members and groups" whereupon there is fits of giggling and a few people shouting bullsh!t under their breath. A total waste of a weekend and - lucky for some - the MD suddenly found he had a ticket to the Rugby and only popped in at the start and end of the days.
No but it's a thought & probably pays better than my current job.I wish I was you. Have you considered after-dinner speaking?
Your "bonding sessions", sound far better than ours!No but it's a thought & probably pays better than my current job.
After dinner the MD decided to make a speech and was told (a bit too) politely not to and to shut up by our head of department because a)he was slightly pissed and b)wearing the Welsh rugby top he'd bought that afternoon.:slap:
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