We have commenced our planning at this end: we need to confirm dates
shortly. Following from an email from George, it seems to us that the best
dates will be Tuesday 20 July 1999 - Friday 23 July. This, as George
points out, will allow people to travel from North America on the Friday
or Saturday (gaining a day as they pass the dateline) and arriving in NZ on
the Sunday or Monday. They can depart on the Friday night and (losing day
on the way back) will be back in their offices Monday morning.
It would be good to have the Council's agreement to these dates asap.
We have met with the University's fund-raisers and have a number of
proposals for sponsorship - I already have an offer of sponsorship from Air
New Zealand who have offered a 75 percent discount on one economy class
seat from the US to NZ for a "Guest Speaker" who would be known as the Air
New Zealand Guest Speaker. I am not certain we will accept this offer.
AirNZ would be the official carrier and some discounts on fares to
participants would be available but we may be able to do better. They
would provide however various printed materials to help with promotion, etc.
I presume that the commercial companies associated with the Conference
will be wanting to have stands etc. at the Conference and
that they will pay us a fee for that. Can you supply details of what the
usual arrangements have been and whom the Companies concerned are likely to
be?
We plan to have a meeting here of our local organising committee to proceed
on the issues of Sponsorship in the next 2 - 3 weeks. It would be my plan
to have these details finalsied by May, a brochure promoting the
conference ready by June and this to be distributed at the 1998 conference.
Hope this is sufficient at this stage - and look forward to hearing from
you shortly. Once we have dates confirmed we will proceed with bookings
etc.
Raymond Harbridge
Professor & Director
Graduate School of Business and Government Management
Victoria University of Wellington
P O Box 600
Wellington
New Zealand
ph + 64 4 495 5077 (work)
ph + 64 4 496 5454 (fax)
ph + 64 21 536 094 (mobile)
raymond.harbridge@vuw.ac.nz (email)
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