Conference Management

Conference Management

Introduction

A Conference is a formal meeting or forum where people meet and interact for several different reasons. The conferences have been a part of organizations all over the world for many years. Here the discussion is based on some common topic which every member present wants to discuss on. These conferences traditionally took place in the meeting rooms or board rooms of any organization. These conferences are also held in hotels and clubs. Today, with the advancement in technology, conferences have changed into video conferencing over the internet. The purpose of conferences changes with organization to organization and situation to situation. Today, many companies are still using the traditional means of conferencing and think that it is better than the video conferencing. This view also differs from company to company, like many organizations think that video conferencing is more effective and helpful for them.

Discussion

Conference Management Systems

Today, there are many different conference management systems which help the organizations in managing the conferences easily. These systems serve for many different purposes including collecting the preferences of topics, reviewing the coverage, collecting the conflict views of people, reporting the views to the consulting department or management. Usually businesses are growing globally and this requires the management to keep in touch so that they all can remain updated with the ongoing business. Conferences have direct relationship with tourism, as reviewed by Davidson and Cope (2003). This shows that the business world and conferences affect the tourism industry up to a great extent. Whenever the peak season of conferences is coming, the rate of tourism due to business also increases as conferencing required travelling of people from one country to another for the purpose of attending the conference (Ciancarina, Nierstrasz, and Tolksdorf, 1998). There are many different conference management systems available, many are helping for the traditional way of conferencing while others are helping in the modern way of conferencing like video conferencing. These systems make the conferences more effective and efficient and help in the reduction of many time consuming activities.

The Conference Market

The growth of the conference market has been prominent in the recent years, when the organizations have started focusing more on having conferences to resolve their issues and take better decisions with mutual understanding and contributions. It has always been helpful for the organizations to have conferences so as to meet and come up to some conclusion or take ...