Conferences

Hi Lesley,

A big, big thank you to Lesley for all her hard work on the mission of a task she has been working on for Kentec Electronics.

Lesley has expertly aided me with many aspects of a UK road show I am organising, she has found amazing venues for us to hold our events and impress our customers as well as taking care of all our hotel and travel requirements.

So far we have been to Dublin to The Guinness Storehouse and Norwich FC to name a couple, the facilities and quality of service have been superb helping us to maximise the impact we are aiming to achieve at these events.

The Medway Travel team are always friendly and efficient and handle the companies myriad travel and function requirements expertly.

Thank you

Natalie, Kentec Electronics


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Hi Stephen,


I just wanted to say thank you for all your help in organising the Burns supper on Friday. Everything went exceptionally well and the venue and food were absolutely fantastic. You were an enormous help and made organising everything so much easier.

Once again a huge thank you.

Fiona Davidson, Pfizer


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The Greek island of Crete was host to one of our regular clients, the British Chess Federation.

On this occasion, we arranged flights for 42 guests, both players and their families, to travel to the island. By obtaining the best group fares, and enlisting the dedicated service provided by Olympic Airways, we were pleased to have contributed once again to the success of this tour. The group returned to the UK, everything having gone well, including the chess!

Their tour leader, Peter Turner, was kind enough even to take a few minutes to advise us of his appreciation at the time of their departure from Heathrow. He has since said he is delighted to fully endorse this article, and added "many thanks to Medway Travel for an excellent and reliable service" .

Peter Turner, British Chess Federation


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The brief was to find a 5* hotel, and co-ordinate arrangements for a group of 75 of the company's staff to travel to Lisbon, for an incentive weekend.

Our Solution was to choose the Pestana Palace Hotel, a 5* deluxe property in the centre of the City, and with the assistance from our local DMC (Destination Management Company), arrange a Gala dinner with a visit to a Fado restaurant. This was all co-ordinated with flights from the UK, and ground transportation in Lisbon.

We were delighted to receive the following email from the executive resonsible:

Stephen, thanks for your help with all the arrangments for our weekend at the Pestana Palace in Lisbon. Thank you Medway for recommending this lovely hotel as it was a great success with everybody.

The Portugese people were so very helpful and altogether the weekend ran very smoothly, with almost near perfect weather as well.

With very best wishes.

Ronnie - Bel UK, Leisure Group, Lisbon, Portugal


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Edinburgh was the chosen venue for the annual conference of the UK offices of a globally recognised Accountancy firm.

For this event, Medway Travel Management was selected, to support the specialist conference organiser, by negotiating and managing the travel arrangements for the delegates.

Flight reservations began at the beginning of June, with Medway Travel anticipating a total of approximately 400 travellers. By researching and offering competitive fares, and by meeting the challenge of last minute changes of plan by those delegates originally due to go by rail, but whose journeys would have been seriously disrupted by last minute engineering work, we finally secured seats for 625 air passengers.

We had to use a mixture of individual reservations for delegates from the London area, and group bookings for their colleagues based in the Channel Islands. We also kept running manifests of who was on which flights and limit the numbers of both delegates and Directors on each flight to a strictly determined maximum, for insurance reasons, keeping both the organiser and the client informed with detailed status reports on a regular basis.

We feel proud to have been a part of this successful event, and look forward to providing our services for their future conferences.

Major International Accountancy firm - Edinburgh Conference


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Thank you so very much for helping to arrange the Institute of Public Relations Conference in Canterbury for us. We could not have done this without your help. Your ideas for the Gala Dinner miraculously transformed the stark 70's interior into a Kent Countryside setting. Everything went according to plan and it was a great success - some of the individuals even went as far as to say that it was the best conference the IPR have held.

Once again thank you.

Glynis, Canterbury City Council - IPR Conference