Schron Associates offers custom planning and management services for meetings, group incentive travel and other types of business events, with a high level of attention to detail based on decades of experience.

We can work in collaboration with you and your staff, or you can outsource your program to us. Because of our diverse business background in corporate communications and finance, we are also able to advise you on the design and content of your program so it achieves your organizational goals. We are particularly known for our on-site management and supervision of client programs to assure program success and to attend to last-minute changes and issues.

Here's what we do:

*Plan and manage meetings, group incentive travel programs and business events such as product or business study seminars, corporate facility/factory visits & inspections, other types of business tourism, award dinners, grand openings, product introductions, etc.

*Design customer or employee incentive contest criteria and business meeting/event agendas.

*Oversee program development, execution and follow-up.

*Research, select and inspect program venues and establish working relationships with venue management.

*Negotiate costs such as airfares, room rates, ground transfers, equipment rental, activities, entertainment and food and beverage.

*Track performance of incentive contest participants and meeting reservations, issuing status reports as needed.

*Develop and distribute program material such as promotional mailings, meeting announcements, reservation forms and invitations; receive and monitor responses.

*Handle group travel and related arrangements and special requests for pre- or post-trip stays and/or diversions in individual itineraries.

*Plan food and beverage requirements, arrange entertainment, plan and schedule activities and select and purchase event-related materials.

*Provide meet and greet services on arrival, group escorts and on-site event management and supervision, focusing on client care and oversight of vendor performance to assure program success and to attend to last-minute issues.

*Post-event evaluation and follow-up, including billing analysis, consolidation and reconciliation.