Definitions of convention bureaux
| Author(s) | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Gartrell (1988), p. 21 | Convention and visitors bureaux | “Bureaus sell cities” Convention and visitors bureau have one fundamental mission: to solicit and service conventions and other related group business and to engage in visitor promotions which generate overnight stays for a destination, thereby enhancing and developing the economic fabric of the community |
| Palmer and Bejou (1995), p. 622 | Visitors and convention bureaux | The visitors bureaux and CB can be regarded as the most developed form of local tourism marketing alliance in the USA. They vary in their authority and organisation and while most are nominally independent of government, some are administered as just another department within a county’s authority. They also vary in size and responsibilities |
| Getz et al. (1998), p. 331 | Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs are primarily destination marketing organisations, typically established at the community level for the purposes of fostering meetings and leisure travel |
| Masberg (1998), p. 67 | Convention and visitors bureaux | A CVB is a cooperative or umbrella organisation for tourism marketing, development and administration in cities and towns |
| Swarbrooke and Horner (2001), p. 342 | Convention bureaux | An organisation responsible for marketing a city or area as a convention destination |
| Beaver (2005), p. 110 | Convention bureaux | Convention bureaux in the travel industry are usually funded either by a local, regional or national government agency, by a cooperative of hotels and conference facilities and sometimes by combination of both. Their function is to provide information to conference organisers about facilities and services in this field available in their countries or areas, e.g. LCB, the London Convention Bureau. Sometimes called convention and visitors bureau, it means exactly the same |
| Ha and Love (2005), p. 45 | Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs act as destination developers as well as destination representatives CVBs serve as the liaison between visitors and meeting planners and the host destination. Services include collecting information from host facilities, such as hotels, attractions, restaurants, and shops to provide information to potential visitors. CVBs provide support in planning meetings, conventions or trade shows so meeting organisers can make the best possible use of all the services, facilities and attractions that a destination can offer |
| Yuan et al. (2006), p. 326 | Convention and visitors bureaux | American CVBs, one layer of DMOs in the USA, are one of the important information brokers in tourism network. They act as a liaison in coordinating the segmented tourism businesses at a destination and in providing communication links to the consumer |
| Lee and Lee (2006), p. 115 | Convention and visitors bureau | The CVB, a comprehensive destination marketer, plays an important role in marketing destinations and their C and E (convention and exhibition) facilities, attracting more events to the destination and thus helping C and E providers reach their ultimate financial goal, making profits A CVB acts like a centre of the C and E industry, including hotels, restaurants, convention facilities, attractions, tour operators as well as commercial resources in its orbit |
| Golden-Romero (2007), p. 98 | Convention and visitors bureau/ housing bureau | Originally, bureaus were created in large US cities to promote their destination to convention groups needing hotel rooms and meeting facilities. As the name implies, the term visitors refers more to the tourism promotion |
| Ford and Peeper (2008), p. 7 | Convention and visitors bureaux | A CVB is an organisation that both by law and by design is responsible for marketing destination |
| UNWTO (2010), p. 4 | Convention bureaux | A convention bureau is a specific form of destination governance at local or regional level. It is a type of organisation with a distinct structure and role, typically for urban destinations but also common for rural, coastal and mountain areas. A convention bureau is the entity responsible for promoting and organizing conferences, exhibitions, conventions, incentives and various events at the destination. It could be a non-profit private–public partnership, a company funded by the private sector, a department of public authority or even a private sector trading |
| Maier and Johanson (2013), pp. 4–5 | Convention bureaux | A convention bureau represents the city or local municipality in its desire to market the city and generate convention attendees based on promotional events and other associated activities. The convention bureau and tourism authority are usually an independent not-for-profit entity funded from several sources |
| Rogers (2013), p. 120 | Convention bureaux/convention and visitors bureaux | The bureaux are established as not-for-profit organisations, controlled by management board, to fulfil a strategic marketing role and to be “official” voice of the destination they represent |
| Marques and Santos (2017), p. 426 | Convention and visitors bureaux | Specialised organisations in cities promotion (their resources and attractiveness) to captivate the largest possible number of events |
| Park and Kim (2017), p. 381 | Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs are important information brokers and disseminators in the local tourism industry and act as a layer of destination management in the USA .With financial support from the local community, one of the critical goals of CVBs is to promote their destinations to both leisure and business travellers |
| Author(s) | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Convention and visitors bureaux | “Bureaus sell cities” | |
| Visitors and convention bureaux | The visitors bureaux and CB can be regarded as the most developed form of local tourism marketing alliance in the USA. They vary in their authority and organisation and while most are nominally independent of government, some are administered as just another department within a county’s authority. They also vary in size and responsibilities | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs are primarily destination marketing organisations, typically established at the community level for the purposes of fostering meetings and leisure travel | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | A CVB is a cooperative or umbrella organisation for tourism marketing, development and administration in cities and towns | |
| Convention bureaux | An organisation responsible for marketing a city or area as a convention destination | |
| Convention bureaux | Convention bureaux in the travel industry are usually funded either by a local, regional or national government agency, by a cooperative of hotels and conference facilities and sometimes by combination of both. Their function is to provide information to conference organisers about facilities and services in this field available in their countries or areas, e.g. LCB, the London Convention Bureau. Sometimes called convention and visitors bureau, it means exactly the same | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs act as destination developers as well as destination representatives | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | American CVBs, one layer of DMOs in the USA, are one of the important information brokers in tourism network. They act as a liaison in coordinating the segmented tourism businesses at a destination and in providing communication links to the consumer | |
| Convention and visitors bureau | The CVB, a comprehensive destination marketer, plays an important role in marketing destinations and their C and E (convention and exhibition) facilities, attracting more events to the destination and thus helping C and E providers reach their ultimate financial goal, making profits | |
| Convention and visitors bureau/ | Originally, bureaus were created in large US cities to promote their destination to convention groups needing hotel rooms and meeting facilities. As the name implies, the term visitors refers more to the tourism promotion | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | A CVB is an organisation that both by law and by design is responsible for marketing destination | |
| Convention bureaux | A convention bureau is a specific form of destination governance at local or regional level. It is a type of organisation with a distinct structure and role, typically for urban destinations but also common for rural, coastal and mountain areas. A convention bureau is the entity responsible for promoting and organizing conferences, exhibitions, conventions, incentives and various events at the destination. It could be a non-profit private–public partnership, a company funded by the private sector, a department of public authority or even a private sector trading | |
| Convention bureaux | A convention bureau represents the city or local municipality in its desire to market the city and generate convention attendees based on promotional events and other associated activities. The convention bureau and tourism authority are usually an independent not-for-profit entity funded from several sources | |
| Convention bureaux/convention and visitors bureaux | The bureaux are established as not-for-profit organisations, controlled by management board, to fulfil a strategic marketing role and to be “official” voice of the destination they represent | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | Specialised organisations in cities promotion (their resources and attractiveness) to captivate the largest possible number of events | |
| Convention and visitors bureaux | CVBs are important information brokers and disseminators in the local tourism industry and act as a layer of destination management in the USA .With financial support from the local community, one of the critical goals of CVBs is to promote their destinations to both leisure and business travellers |