Relationships and Reliability
While DMCs do have their place, would you want a $15/hour DMC staff running your important event? They are great to come in for the day to assist with collating packets or stuffing name badges, [...]
Day-to-day billing oversight
As full-time on-site event staff we are used to managing the day-to-day oversight of billing. Billing is freshest in your mind when reviewing every day, rather than receiving a 500-page bill 10 [...]
Concession negotiation
Our staff come in and have the ability to be paired with local DMC or hotel staff in order to forge a relationship for the duration of the program. As a result of these relationships they are [...]
ROI
Historically, over the past few years when partnering with companies on larger programs, we find that our staff negotiations overall, on areas where we can control budget items (food & [...]
Pre-existing vendor relationships
Pre-existing relationships. Au Courant Travel Directors are full-time, independent travel staff that are continually in the field. One client cited that it was great when on a recent trip his [...]
Event efficiency
When you debrief how smoothly are your events running? Do you even know? Is the feeling “glad that is over” rather than “that was a successful program and we are ready to hit the ground running [...]
Internal staff fatigue
One of the most significant benefits we see for clients is relieving internal staff fatigue. When your internal staff are out on each other’s events they not only lack enough time to devote to [...]
