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Business Trip in Portugal - Plan Your Corporate Event

Written by Mariana Pinto | 20-Nov-2015 13:46:00

Planning a corporate travel or a business event is not an easy task. We want our company to please our guests and want to choose the best place in the world to deliver that important information and hold that fair when we will showcase our latest products or services.

Here are a few suggestions of the best ways to plan a corporate trip in Portugal that your clients or guests will remember.

Plan Your Corporate Event Ahead

Every trip involving large groups of people requires a deep planning. It is essential to understand every need of the clients and what our company will want to provide them. So it is very important to define:

  • Where you will plan your meeting or event
  • How many people will be attending the conference? And will they bring their spouses?
  • How many rooms will you need?
  • What type of equipment will be necessary: auditoriums and conference rooms, workshop rooms, showcase rooms, technology?
  • What leisure activities will you want your clients to be involved in: leisure activities, teambuilding, cultural and heritage, wine and food?
  • What type of meals and restaurants do you prefer: renowned restaurants, typical restaurants in order to experience the local wine and food, Michelin star?

Why choose Portugal as a Business Travel destination?

Start with the destination. Portugal is welcoming more and more business events, fairs and conferences every year. It has not happened by chance. Portugal is a very welcoming country with great weather and providing all the facilities every business needs to hold a corporate event, with large congress centres, hotels fully equipped to receive large corporate groups.

Cost

Portugal offers great value for money when compared with other countries. Portugal is one of the cheapest travel destinations in Europe. Regarding accommodation, guided tours, restaurants and activities, prices in portugal are far below the European averages, while never compromising the quality, in many cases offering a higher quality when compared to other more famous and renowned countries.

Easy Access

Portugal has three strategically located airports that provide easy access to every region in the country: Porto, Lisbon and Faro, covering the three main areas in Portugal. All airports feature low cost companies as well as some of the best airlines that provide from economic to business and first class trips.

The roads in Portugal are also a plus, with highways connecting all the major cities. The Portuguese highway plan was considered one of the best in Europe.

Cultural heritage and landscape

Along with the fantastic weather all year long, Portugal has a great diversity of landscapes, from the terraces in Douro covered with vines, to the golden plains of Alentejo, or the city landscape of Lisbon's and Porto's historic centre, considered by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.

All of this make it possible for Portugal to offer a wide range of activities for every need, preference and budget: teambuilding, outdoor leisure activities such as wine tastings or cruises, cultural tours in century-old monuments and villages as well as in the most modern museums, buildings and concert halls.

Wine and Food

Well-known for its awarded wines, Portugal is not only one of the best wine destinations in the world but also a culinary one. By organizing a corporate trip in Portugal, your company will be provide its clients with the possibility to taste some of the best wines and flavours in the world, every time with a great view in sight or in great typical places related to the Portuguese wine culture.

Why Choose Wine Tourism in Portugal to Plan Your Business Trip

Wine Tourism In Portugal is the perfect partner in Portugal to organize a business trip in Portugal. Our offer include a handpicked selection of the best partners such as five star hotels, wine producing estates and Portuguese restaurants.

Besides, our skilled and experienced travel consultants team is prepared to plan you a complete tour and schedule, bearing in mind all your needs and preferences in terms of location, space needed and preferred extra activities, delivering a completely customized corporate travel solution for national and international companies.

We proud ourselves on creating exclusive programmes that address the specific needs of our clients and their clients or guests, bearing in mind the cost effectiveness of the whole tour.

As you can see, when you combine Portugal as destination and Wine Tourism in Portugal as your corporate travel agent, you have all that you need to plan a successful event in Portugal that will meet the required goals and objectives of your company.

Start planning your business trip in Portugal.