So,
I’m back at my desk after a long break and have paddled my way through two
weeks’ worth of correspondence; my productivity may have been low, but
everything is now in neat, coded piles of importance and priority.
I
have the most comprehensive, annotated, doodled-on ‘to do list’ ever and on the
first day of our new financial year, with my extensive wish list of projects, I've already spent the budget. At least
twice.
Now,
I just have to get on with it!
To
attempt anything requiring any degree of creativity or logic would have felt
like attempting to square the circle. But the day wasn't completely fruitless.
We
launched our Associate Venue Membership – welcoming a dozen or so new
non-academic venues into the portfolio – very exciting times. To find out more
about our new venues take a look at www.conferencecambridge.com.
Martin
Dempster and Kevan Holland of Trident Hospitality introduced our new Agents’ Promise and Code of Conduct at Midlands
Consortium of Conference Organisers (MCOCO) Agents’ Showcase at Ramada in
Sutton Coldfield.
We found out that we’ll be hosting the next Great Ambassador
Networking Group over Easter next year and we have a meeting on Wednesday with
a fantastic potential Cambridge Ambassador as a result of our efforts on the ICCA database.
We have a meeting with the helpful people from UKTI to discuss
our international efforts and potentially some joint promotions with Cambridge Airport, now that they
have daily scheduled flights to Milan, Paris, Amsterdam and Geneva with Darwin Airlines.
And on Thursday, we
are very much looking forward to entertaining some clients at the Cambridge
Belfry’s Banqueting Showcase – with an American theme, it being
Independence Day, I think we’ll have a good night.
I love my job. (Most of the time)
Kelly Vickers
Manager, Conference Cambridge
Conference Cambridge is the official, free venue-finding service of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, hotels and other unique venues in the City.
*Squaring the Circle:
On this day in 1769, a witty poem was published in the Cambridge Chronicle, in
which, students were expressing their desire to wear square caps instead of
round black caps.
Reference: the
Cambridge Book of Days, Rosemary Zanders
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