Services

Consulting

Gary Grimmer & Company offers a wide range of consulting services for the business events industry.  We specialize in issues related to establishing and managing convention & visitor bureaus, developing and expanding convention centres as well as the broader aspects of the international meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions industry:

Convention Centres

  • Market Demand Assessments
  • Feasibility Studies
  • Business cases, economic impacts and social benefits
  • Facility scoping
  • Site studies
  • Support infrastructure review
  • Hotel development recommendations
  • Business forecasts
  • Operating results forecasts and financial projections
  • Management Options studies
  • Sales and marketing plans

Convention Bureaus

  • Establishment plans
  • Strategic plans
  • Destination product assessments
  • Product development
  • Destination Management plans
  • Sales management and database systems
  • Developing bid processes
  • Managing tenders, RFPs and business leads
  • Research and sales prospecting
  • Ambassador programs
  • Destination brand development
  • Goal setting
  • Productivity measurement and performance management
  • Resource needs analysis and development
  • Business cases for increased government funding
  • Business and economic impacts analysis
  • Communications plans
  • IT solutions
  • Public Funds Management Reviews
  • Human Resource Management Plans
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Performance audits
  • Value chain analysis
  • Technology assessments and system reviews
  • Internal control systems
  • Membership and business partner programs
  • Sale and Marketing plans and program development
  • Management support