You can now do all your M.I.C.E travel and planning with us.

Whether it be meetings, incentives, conferences or events we can now offer you the complete package.

Executive Events, Executive Travel’s conference, events, team building, incentive and meetings division, have gone from strength to strength over the past 5 years delivering exciting and inspirational events and conferences both within New Zealand and offshore.

We have challenged ourselves to raise the bar even higher on this crucial part of your and our business, actively searching for a like-minded conference, events and incentive specialist to partner with so we can jointly provide the best possible incentive programmes and events expertise to you.

Executive Events would like to introduce you to our new partner, Extra Mile Company (affectionately known to us as EMC). Effective 1 January 2010, we have begun working closely with our friends at EMC, who we have been engaged as our key supplier for Executive Events. Our new partnership with EMC allows us to deliver more ideas, more input, more expertise and more resource, for less cost than ever before.

EMC is an internationally respected and award winning strategic marketing agency specialising in behavioural change and performance management, with branches located in Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and New Delhi. They aim to help their corporate clients achieve their business goals by creating cost effective solutions and behavioural change programmes that utilise one or more of a range of individually customised rewards.

EMC brings the following fantastic benefits to Executive Events:

Over 20 years of specialist experience in the incentive industry.
A dedicated team of experts.
Tailor made solutions to meet each client’s specific demands and objectives.
A desire to provide a travel experience that will appeal to your particular target audience.
Control over the finished and delivered product, ensuring contingencies and back up through your entire programme.
A strategic approach to the fulfilment of the conference and travel experience.
Provision of tour guides, on ground operators and tour managers to ensure programme success.
A dedicated account manager and team every step of the way.
Value added inclusion –maximising your budget by using creativity and leveraging off long term supplier relationships.
Management of all aspects of the programme including registration, pre and post travel arrangements, accommodation, exclusive events / travel inclusions / surprises, and guarantee the smooth running of all aspects.

Click here to read more about what EMC has to offer and see examples of the exceptional travel experiences they have delivered in the past.

The perfect setting for your next conference

Duxton Hotel Okawa Bay is a great venue and the perfect setting for your next conference.

A luxurious boutique resort located on the shores of beautiful Lake Rotoiti with 44 deluxe rooms, spa rooms and suites. Facilities include restaurant, bar, outdoor heated swimming pool, floodlit tennis courts and lakefront conference and meeting rooms.

Residential conference packages start from just $199 per night for overnight accommodation, conference room hire, morning and afternoon tea and lunch.

When it's time to leave behind the stress of the city retreat to a slice of paradise just 20 minutes from Rotorua.

Start made on Viaduct Harbour MICE venue

Construction on Auckland’s newest waterfront landmark officially began on Friday morning, with the ground breaking ceremony for the Viaduct Events Centre. Councillor Greg Moyle, who chairs the council’s Arts, Culture and Recreation Committee, broke ground at the Halsey Street wharf construction site. He calls the Viaduct Events Centre, designed by Moller Architects whose past work includes the SkyTower, a “critical piece of the big puzzle” that encompasses the whole of the city’s waterfront. “It is the first project to start construction in the Wynyard Quarter area. This part of the waterfront will soon be a buzz of activity with Gateway Plaza, North Wharf and the interim pedestrian and cycle bridge, all to be completed in the next year or two,” says Mr Moyle.

Hawkins Construction, which was awarded the contract to build the 6000sq m events centre, officially took over the site at the end of March to prepare for construction. The company is working to a fixed schedule to ensure that the building is complete by July next year, ahead of Rugby World Cup 2011. The multi-purpose glass pavilion will offer flexible exhibition, meeting and hospitality space plus external public spaces close to the water’s edge, all with spectacular views of the harbour and the city skyline. It will also feature an external ramp leading to a public observation deck. Measuring 100m long by 30m wide, the VEC will offer more than 2200sq m of space on its ground floor, much of which will have 12m roof height. It will be capable of handling nearly 1200 guests banquet-style. Two smaller levels above the main floor can take 900 for cocktails or 350 for a banquet. Among the events already booked are next year’s Auckland Art Fair, Fashion Week and a number of Rugby World Cup related hospitality functions, and the VEC is also expected to be central to the next Louis Vuitton Cup and Volvo Ocean Race.

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The perfect setting for your next conference

Start made on Viaduct Harbour MICE venue

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V8 Superschool deal
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Free meeting room hire
The Grand Hyatt Melbourne is offering FREE meeting room hire for meetings held in May and June. The property is also offering the choice of added bonuses, from accommodation vouchers for an overnight stay in a newly redesigned grand king suite room, or a range of upgrades, such as beverage and canape packages. Talk to your Executive Events consultant for more details.

Dining on the edge at O'Reilly's
O’Reilly’s Rainforest Retreat, in the Gold Coast Hinterland, has received a grant to build a breathtaking outdoor dining deck at their Moonlight Crag lookout. The cliff-top deck is
perched on a mountain ridge 2000ft high, overlooking the remote areas of Southern Lamington and the famous Lost World. The Moonlight Crag deck will offer unique dining experiences for special events, including degustation dinners and dinner under the stars, and is the only venue of its type in the region. Construction has commenced and the deck is scheduled to be completed by next spring.

Conference offers NZ wide
Book your conference or meeting this winter with Hotel Grand Chancellor New Zealand and you can choose from four cost saving deals. The offers include: 10% back on the total cost of your event to spend at your next event in a Hotel Grand Chancellor New Zealand; choose a free cocktail function, including catering when booking a meeting; $1 venue hire when booking a meeting, or get a free catering upgrade on any morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, cocktail function or dinner. The deals are available for bookings until 31 August 2010.