At a typical company, meetings & events represents, on average, between 25% and 40% of total travel spend. That’s a large area of opportunity for improving savings, services, and control. Taking control of your meetings & events can help you achieve savings of 10% to 30%. CWT Meetings & Events delivers savings and success. Most importantly, we can help you increase the effectiveness of your meetings & events program to ensure your company’s unique business objectives are achieved.

1. UNMATCHED EXPERTISE: CWT MEETINGS & EVENTS

2. CWT Meetings & Events delivers savings and success
Do you want savings AND satisfaction? CWT Meetings & Events can help you:
Improve the quality of your meetings & events
Would you like to have control AND creativity?
Increase your return on investment
With CWT Meetings & Events, you CAN. Gain access to leading tools & technology
Increase the efficiency of your employees
At a typical company, meetings & events represents, on average, between 25%
and 40% of total travel spend. That’s a large area of opportunity for improving Satisfy your attendees AND stakeholders
savings, services, and control. Taking control of your meetings & events can help
you achieve savings of 10% to 30%. Most importantly, we can help you increase the effectiveness of
your meetings & events program to ensure your company’s unique
business objectives are achieved.
CWT Meetings & Events helps you achieve savings AND success.
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3. Meetings & Events offering
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CWT Meetings & Events has the expertise and hands-on experience you need to
optimize savings, improve services, increase control, enrich attendee experiences, CWT Meetings & Events helps you improve
and reach your organization’s unique strategic objectives.
risk management efforts by ensuring
With CWT’s help, you can take control. Our industry-leading technologies and meeting attendees can be tracked in an
proprietary optimization models improve process efficiencies and provide emergency.
worldwide data consolidation, benchmarking capabilities, and reconciliation
reporting. CWT Meetings & Events also helps you improve risk management efforts
by ensuring meeting attendees can be tracked in an emergency.
From a menu of services in logistics, sourcing, and consulting to end-to-end management,
we have meetings and events covered.
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4. Unparalleled control: CWT Meetings
CWT Meetings offers a flexible range of services, expertise and resources to meeting planning and execution with the power of a truly global player and the
professionalize meeting planning and execution, strategically source suppliers, and personalized approach of someone who knows your market.
accurately report on your company’s meetings and events. We can complement
your in-house resources and processes, offering expertise in specific areas of CWT Meetings has best-in-class technology enablers to facilitate efficient processes
need, or deliver an end-to-end solution for your planners and attendees. and provide the meeting tools and services planners need. We can also help you
prove the value of managing meetings and events by tracking and reporting
CWT Meetings can also help you eliminate costly supplier penalties and spend and savings, attendee satisfaction, and how well your meetings achieve
negotiate favorable terms and conditions in meeting contracts. With worldwide their business objectives.
presence and local expertise, we can assist you around the globe in all areas of
Success Story:
CWT Meetings Services: CWT Meetings handled sourcing, accommodations and operational
Pre-planning & approval reporting for a critical client meeting, ensuring a successful event for
Supplier sourcing & contract the client and their 450 attendees from around the world by bringing
management On-site operation together global resources, services and reporting. The client was
Attendee management Payment and reconciliation pleased, saying “CWT Meetings & Events is continuously seeking
Transportation Risk management higher levels of performance, a trustworthy business partner
Accommodations Performance measurement committed to offering industry-leading products and services.”
From on-demand support to end-to-end solutions, CWT Meetings gives you unparalleled
control over your company’s meetings.
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5. Uncovering potential: CWT Meetings & Events Solutions
CWT Meetings & Events (M&E) Solutions consultants can help you gather and CWT M&E Solutions consultants can also provide specialized reviews for specific
analyze the information you need to build a best-in-class M&E program initiatives such as your company’s commitment to the environment, corporate
and improve it year after year. They can help you identify who is planning meetings social responsibility, risk management, or technology use. They can help you
and events in your company, what types of meetings and events you hold, and contribute to company cost-savings targets and improve your company’s
what processes are followed. They’ll find out how much your company spends, bottom line.
with which suppliers, analyze that information and benchmark it against
customized peer groups.
CWT M&E Solutions consultants offer customized recommendations that fit
your company’s culture and M&E needs. They provide a complete analysis of your
spend and step-by-step assessment & strategy, implementation & change CWT Meetings & Events Solutions gathers data
management and ongoing program optimization recommendations—focused
in the areas of M&E policy, processes, sourcing & supplier management, and
to analyze and benchmark your company’s
performance measures for savings and satisfaction. CWT M&E Solutions helps M&E profile and build a 3-year strategic plan.
you turn assessment into savings while also providing actionable
recommendations for continuous program improvement.
CWT Meetings & Events Solutions is completely focused on uncovering potential
in your meetings and events program.
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6. Unforgettable experiences: CWT Events
CWT Events has the creativity, knowledge, and experience to ensure your company CWT Events can help you develop creative concepts that meet your business
delivers world-class events that meet strategic objectives and maximize objectives, then plan, fulfill, and execute events that accomplish those goals. And
return on investment. We understand that event planning is inherently more we’ll do it while providing single-source accountability and unmatched
complicated than standard business meetings, often involving a variety of critical proficiency. Do you need end-to-end event management, detailed reporting or simply
personnel at your company who may not interact directly with travel procurement logistics support? Either way, CWT Events has your needs covered, with market-
teams. We will help you engage and motivate event attendees like never before specific event services tailored to your company’s unique requirements.
by delivering events that impress and captivate them in a whole new way.
CWT Events can handle the most complex events for even the
CWT Events handles most demanding clients. Our expertise in pharmaceutical events
all types of events, including: allows us to handle the details of critical investigators’ meetings,
Incentives Congresses annual meetings, incentives, or congresses with style and
Conventions Gala dinners
professionalism.
Product launches And more!
CWT has the style and expertise that ensures success, and the From the simplest table decoration detail to creating an original event concept
market knowledge needed to make your events relevant in each that engages your clients to the complex logistics of moving 1,000 people from
country. around the world to a single location, CWT Events professionals help you make
it happen.
When your company needs to provide an unforgettable experience,
you can count on CWT Events to deliver.
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8. Unbeatable Innovation: CWT Meetings Strategy Plus
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CWT Meetings Strategy Plus
Strategy plus execution. Insight plus foresight. Creativity plus control. With CWT Meetings Strategy Plus, you get a partner who knows M&E, is an expert
CWT Meetings Strategy Plus — CWT’s approach to strategic meetings in business travel management, and can leverage our expertise in both for
management — offers you a customized package of both services and increased savings and single-source accountability. This holistic approach of
specialized consulting. We take a flexible, innovative approach to developing consistent, professional services plus expert analysis and recommendations helps
an enterprise-wide meetings and events program, leveraging best practices you realize your financial, risk management, and satisfaction objectives
in sourcing, logistics and specialized consulting for each customer. year-after-year.
We could just help with one meeting or one event. But when you approach M&E With help from CWT, a worldwide technology leader achieved
with a strategic and enterprise approach, you can achieve incremental savings
and control by evaluating spend and behavior at an aggregate level.
26% savings across their entire M&E program.
When you need an M&E program that can deliver it all,
you can count on CWT Meetings Strategy Plus
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9. Unmatched Expertise: Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Carlson Wagonlit Travel is a global leader in travel management, focused on With flexible delivery models, dedicated professionals, and decades of experience,
helping you derive greater value from your travel program. We offer a range of we can help you ensure that your M&E program meets your company’s unique
services to help integrate meetings and events into your travel program to optimize needs while maximizing savings and your attendees’ experiences. We’ll listen to
savings, enhance process control, improve risk management, and enrich attendee your people—your meeting planners, business unit executives, or event
experiences. attendees—and deliver to their expectations. CWT Meetings & Events has the
global expertise and local presence to handle all of your company’s meeting and
event needs.
CWT Meetings & Events:
Operates in: 40+ countries
CWT M&E specialists: 800+ worldwide
Annual meetings: 15,000+
Annual attendees: almost 1 million worldwide.
That’s the unmatched expertise of CWT Meetings & Events.
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10. CWT Head Offices Worldwide
Europe, Middle East, Africa
and Latin America
31 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia
75904 Paris Cedex 15
France
Tel. +33 (0)1 41 33 65 00
North America
701 Carlson Parkway
Minneapolis, MN 55305
United States
Tel. +1 (800) 213-7295
Asia Pacific
3 HarbourFront Place
#08-03 HarbourFront Tower 2
Singapore 099254
Tel. +65 6511 9200
For more information, go to
www.carlsonwagonlit.com
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