The Secrets Of A Venue Finder

I have to admit that I am somewhat lucky in employment, some may even go as far as to say totally spawny. I have spent the majority of my working years swanking my way from hotel to restaurant and bar, then back to a wonderful boutique boudoir and getting paid for it. It started when I was a junior reporter for a local paper and had to interview councillors and upstanding members of the community in places that reflected their importance, all in the name of them getting a good write up. I think they figured that if we were in a posh cocktail bar and bought a bottle of champagne, then I would be impressed. And in all fairness, I was, but it wasn't enough to swing an interview.

From here I went on to work for a music magazine, and my word, the stakes were upped considerably. The bigger the name, the better the interview venue. This time though, it wasn't just bars, it was hotel lounges and ridiculous restaurants, and that is when I got the bug. I became more interested in the venues that I was meeting people in than the people themselves. The architecture, the decor, the food and speciality cocktails; whether they had a health spa or an enchanted woodland inhabited by fairies became more of a preoccupation than my research on the interviewee. The crux came when I realised my write-ups were reading more like a venue review than a personality breakdown of a celebrity. That is when I decided to make a career detour.

I am now a venue finder, and spend my working days doing much what I did before, but without the interview bit. My job is to source the ideal location that is of a certain quality and calibre to meet clients requirements. Sometimes this takes me back into the realm of the entertainment industry, but mostly it is for big businesses that want to impress clients at a conference. It is often my job to locate a place that not only has all the conference facilities that corporate clients require, but enough room with enough panache to comfortably accommodate up to five hundred people. For the really big guys, especially for conferences that last several days, it is essential to have all the luxury of a five star hotel. Swimming pool, spa, sauna, masseuse, sports facilities and breathtaking countryside are all on the checklist.

A typical day's work will entail travelling to a venue by public transport as this is the first step in assessing the suitability; if a place is too hard to get to, it won't make it to my shortlist. For restaurants, bars and conference venues I will spend the day checking the facilities and grade their suitability for various clients. I will assess the quality of the food and drink on offer and well as the variety; I will endeavour to use every service that is on offer and inspect the establishment from top to bottom.

In the case of venue finding for hotels, I will stay at least a night and a day and harass the concierge to within an inch of his or her life, lean heavily on room service and undertake the backbreaking chore of sampling any personal service from personal massage to full beauty makeover. My journalistic tendencies work well in this job, there is no way of sweetening me up with a welcome basket of champagne and fresh fruit, I will give my honest opinion in each review I write as a venue finder, but I guess that's just one of the many perks of this unusual job!

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Fri, 16 Jan 2009 at 2:02 PM, by mandy
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