Meetings, Conventions, Trade Shows & Events (MCTE)
Our unique meeting maps keep sponsors’ messages front and center for attendees
MCTE professionals are always looking for more, new, and better ways to get sponsors’ messages in front of attendees. More channels means more revenue, which means more retention of meeting clients. Take a close look at TGI’s unique, illustrated custom meeting maps. Meeting attendees like our maps, both print and online. Our maps are functional for the attendees — they show hotel locations, meeting facilities, recommended restaurants and shopping. Attendees look at them, repeatedly, and even keep them as souvenirs of a trip. This makes them a valuable addition to a meeting rate card and a time-tested component of successful meeting packages.
What is a meeting map?
A TGI meeting map is a unique illustrated map of the city where your meeting, convention or event will take place. Visitors to U.S. and international destinations have long appreciated our approach to visitor maps – our maps focus on roads, landmarks, and natural features that help visitors get oriented and find their way around major points of interest.
The cost of fully customized meeting maps can be covered by revenue from one or more sponsors. Because our costs to customize meeting maps is relatively low, additional revenue from sponsorships adds to the event’s bottom line.
- Announcement, to reveal and promote the location of the next annual meeting
- Lodging planning, to visually display hotel choices for attendees to select from
- Promotion, to promote and remind members of the upcoming meeting and urge them to register and attend
- Exhibitors, to use as give-aways to promote an exhibit space and/or services
- Recommendations, to guide attendees towards preferred vendors for dining, entertainment, and activity options
- Souvenir promoting a return visit for fun
Print and interactive meeting maps are a win-win-win-win
Along with fully customized print meeting maps, TGI offers a virtual concierge product that is easily adaptable to the needs of meeting and event planners. Our virtual concierge app works together with our customized print maps and with Google Maps.
Our “meeting map + meeting app” combination results in a four-way win for the major players in any convention or event:
- Meeting planners get an edge when selling their services to a meeting by offering meeting maps as a unique value-added service
- Meetings and associations get additional revenue stream from selling map sponsorships
- Sponsors get additional opportunities to get their names in front of attendees
- Attendees get necessary meeting info plus recommendations for off-site entertainment – all in a format they are likely to keep once the meeting is over
Meeting planners can also use a pay-per-click count to add referral commissions to revenue.
We absolutely love the maps! Most importantly, so do our guests! Every time I open the map they are intrigued by how well designed it is. These maps really do help the guests get a visual on where they are and what's around them. We are truly blessed to have met you all, and what you have done for the hotel.
Kiana Uechi-Won, Sales and Front Desk Manager, Courtyard by Marriott North Shore (Oahu, Hawaii)
Our customers love these maps. They are a kind of “analog anchor” in a digitized world. And I am talking of travelers in their 30s who grew up with the Internet – they love them!
Lothar Ruessmann, Managing Director, Lufthansa City Center Business Travel (Cologne, Germany)
We've worked with TGI for many years and have always been satisfied with the products and service. They adapt to your unique needs and produce a well-liked and appealing product. Our guests especially appreciate the creative graphics that include the surrounding area, hotels, the university, and other landmarks.
Phil Sammer, General Manager, Ilima Hotel (Oahu, Hawaii)
Your maps are my absolute favorite to provide.
Leea Purcell, Hawaii Concierge, Four Seasons (Oahu, Hawaii)
These are the best maps we have had!
Rebecca Perry, Boston University Questrom School of Business (Boston, Massachusetts)
TGI is a helpful and collaborative company to work with. Their maps are appealing and cost-efficient.
Tony DeLellis, Owner, KapohoKine Adventures (The Big Island, Hawaii)
TGI is always responsive to our needs and ensures that we are never without collateral. The maps that we use are in demand with our marketing agents as they are eye catching and detailed.
Stacie Shinsato, Marketing Administrator, Wyndham Vacation Ownership (Oahu, Hawaii)
These are the best maps we've ever used. They are unique and memorable, and TGI is a helpful, reliable, and hard-working company.
Tara Chicoine, Senior Marketing Manager, Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club (Oahu, Hawaii)
TGI provides great service and reliability. The maps are well-liked and a valuable marketing piece.
George Cagasan, Hilton Grand Vacations (Oahu, Hawaii)
We've found TGI's maps to be very effective in marketing and promoting local attractions, community assets and visitor offerings in the Twin Cities Gateway destination area. The maps are well-liked, and TGI is a helpful and responsive company to work with.
Steve Markuson, Brand & Creative Account Director, Twin Cities Gateway (Minneapolis/St. Paul)
