The Comprehensive Guide to Successful Conferences and Meetings: Detailed Instructions and Step-By-Step Checklists Paperback - 1991

From the rear cover

Offering detailed advice on organizing, managing, and conducting a successful conference or meeting, the authors provide extensive checklists and charts to guide meeting planners through every step of the process, including deciding on the purpose and design of the conference, selecting a site and choosing function rooms, creating a participant program book, coordinating related activities to make the conference more successful, making special arrangements for VIPs and handicapped attAndees, and evaluating and following up on the conference.

From the jacket flap

From creating the program book to making special arrangements for VIPs, this celebrated resource contains all the guidance, tools and inspiration you need to organize, manage and conduct a truly outstanding meeting or conference. The detailed advice--from authors with more than fifty years of planning experience--can be applied to most any type of gathering, from events for twenty-five to an extravaganza for thousands. A sampling of subjects includes site and function room selection, activity coordination, accommodating handicapped participants, public relations, audio/video equipment, booking entertainment, budgeting, and conducting evaluation and follow-up. Extensive checklists and charts ensure total success.