Sunshine Coast conference centre provides all the right equipment
It’s true that air travel is at its cheapest in more than a decade. Therefore if you are in charge of finding a Sunshine Coast conference centre for your company’s next convention, you would be tempted to take advantage of these cut price flights.
What actually is the point of gathering up your staff from different corners of the country and planting them all in one location? Well of course the answer is that you need everyone in one place to be able to access all the same information at the same time. But the additional costs of feeding and accommodating them all could be quite eye watering.
One reason for the fall in air fares is the increase in web conferencing as an alternative to travel. The proliferation of this technology means that more and more businesses can connect with the rest of their colleagues on a global basis.
The web conferencing technology available now enables real-time and streamlined communications that are as good as having face to face interaction, bringing the global corporate village much closer. The cost of this technology has been made more affordable to small and medium sized businesses.
The scope of web conferencing technology is amazing: Audio and video components are delivered via a broadband internet connection to participants’ web browsers. Meetings can be recorded so delegates who are unable to attend the conference or watch it in real time can replay it at a more convenient time. Ideas can be generated through shared applications such as polling and virtual whiteboards. Plus there is the facility to display PowerPoint slides and edit documents together, providing the spark of interactivity that is missing from teleconferences and videoconferences.
And by reducing the need to travel, companies can focus their time and budgets on developing the business. In addition, the reduction in travel that web conferencing enables helps cut those carbon footprints as well as those worries about spreading swine flu.
One of the major suppliers of web-conferencing software in Australia, WebEx, reports that more than 11,000 Australians are using their software for business meetings each week; not altogether surprising for a country where a company might have staff separated by thousands of miles. Common users are finance and IT companies for purposes such as training and marketing.
So once you have found a state of the art Sunshine Coast conference centre which has web conferencing facilities and is reasonably accessible to most delegates, there is no need to fly in more colleagues from the wild blue yonder. Just remember two things; make sure you take any different time zones into account when notifying others about start times and make sure that they have web conferencing facilities too!
For more information about which Sunshine Coast conference centre offers web conferencing facilities, contact the team at events centre @ maroochy. |
