| London is the ideal venue for business meetings, | | | | Internet technologies with greater internet connectivity |
| seminars, and conferences, superbly served with high | | | | than any other European city, and more than |
| speed transport connections, world class technology | | | | Washington DC. Using London as a venue for both |
| facilities, accommodations, technical, and professional | | | | physical and virtual attendees is easily arranged with |
| services. | | | | the resources and technology services readily |
| It is also one of the world's leading cities. Whether you | | | | available. The frequent IT joke is that London actually |
| are looking for a venue to conduct a meeting with | | | | floats on fibre, given the amount of optic cable |
| national or international attendees, London will be able | | | | supporting communications in the city. |
| to accommodate your venue size, servicing, and | | | | London is a very cosmopolitan and vibrant city that is |
| budgetary needs. | | | | home to a wider range of nationalities and languages |
| London is the financial heart of the European Union | | | | than New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and any other |
| (EU) and capital of one of only four trillion dollar | | | | European city. Interpreters and language support are |
| economies in the EU with an infrastructure to match. | | | | widely available, often with native speakers, and cheap |
| The business infrastructure is being improved even | | | | compared to other international venues. As a place to |
| further, because of London being selected as the | | | | entertain clients and colleagues; it is second to none in |
| venue for the ultimate global sporting occasion - the | | | | offering entertainment, food, and other diversions. |
| Olympic games will be hosted by London in 2012, and | | | | Given the international dominance of London as a |
| a £9 billion ($18 billion) construction project is | | | | center providing professional services and international |
| underway. | | | | markets, there is a heavy presence of legal, |
| As a venue for business meetings of any size, London | | | | accounting, technology, banking, and international |
| enjoys considerable advantages over the rest of the | | | | business support services readily available to attend |
| world by virtue of its location on the Greenwich | | | | any venue in and around the city. As a recognised |
| Median. This allows participants to travel in as little as | | | | centre of international business excellence, London |
| six hours from the United States, to perform daily | | | | excels as a venue for transacting business and holding |
| commutes from all parts of Europe, and to travel and | | | | corporate meetings both nationally and globally. |
| attend a meeting on the same day without overnight | | | | As a national venue for business meetings, London is |
| stopovers. | | | | easily accessible by train, road, and air from all parts of |
| As a consequence of London's commercial history | | | | the UK that again allow attendees to travel to the |
| dating back over two thousand years, a very wide | | | | venue, participate in a meeting, and return to base ion |
| range of venues are available, and they can be fully | | | | the same day. Travel from the UK's other major cities, |
| equipped with any requirement for technology, space | | | | such as Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, |
| and business support services. London itself is serviced | | | | Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast can be accomplished in |
| by three international airports and a dedicated business | | | | under two hours in most cases, depending on the |
| airport only 20 minutes from the city center. Excellent | | | | mode of transport. |
| train and road links allow for rapid and comfortable | | | | Meeting venues in the heart of the city, or on the |
| transfers from airport to business meeting place, and | | | | periphery bounded by the M25 motorway, are simple |
| as a city that hosts millions of business and tourist | | | | and easy to arrange, and London also offers the |
| visitors every day, the range and quality of hotels is | | | | opportunity to host meetings in some of the most |
| immense. | | | | historic and spectacular venues in the world, if you are |
| Over 200 daily scheduled flights connect the US and | | | | looking for a venue with a difference. Where else |
| London, primarily using Gatwick and Heathrow Airports, | | | | would you find a selection of meeting venues ranging |
| with many airlines operating hourly flights to New York | | | | from hi-tech commercial premises and business hotels |
| and more than half a dozen flights per day to other | | | | to castles or palaces and all within an hour of London's |
| US destinations. London's airports also provide more | | | | city centre? |
| scheduled flights connecting the Far East, South Africa, | | | | No matter how long you wish to hold your meeting, |
| and South America than any other European venue. | | | | you will find a venue in London that can satisfy your |
| London is also the European Union leader in the | | | | needs, whether it is a serviced office needed for only |
| provision and implementation of broadband based | | | | an hour or a training course lasting several months. |