Our expertise enables us to deliver best-in-class meeting and events services while helping companies control and optimize related expenditures.

Kaleva Travel meeting and events professionals tailor events based on the clients’ specific  needs and requests. Events are always customized considering our clients’ marketing objectives and communication strategy.

Working closely with the client, our event team helps you plan your event strategy and manage all aspects related to event production: video, stage building, decoration, lighting/sound system, entertainment/animation, etc.

Kaleva Travel holistic approach involves taking care of all the necessary logistics aspects: appropriate venue identifying, transfer management (air, train, bus, car, etc), food and beverage management (catering, restaurant, etc), registration and attendee management, welcome management, networking management, on-site signage.

Efficient logistics is a key factor in the success of the event organizing and our specialized teams are aware that no details should be forgotten as often they make the difference in attendee satisfaction and customer care. This is the main reason why all facets of logistics are carefully managed on our clients’ behalf so that everybody is assured nothing is left to chance.

Meetings and events activities become more and more important for all companies, therefore the strategic planning and budgeting are very important in order to analyze and measure their impact on the corporate businesses.

Kaleva Travel offers StarCite, a tool which was created for the sole purpose of helping the global management of meeting and events activities. Star-Cite is the world’s leading provider of on-demand global meeting solutions. This product provides the only global end-to-end platform for Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) that encompasses the entire value chain, bringing savings, visibility and control to corporate planners, intermediaries and suppliers.

The StarCite global support model combines a consolidated service infrastructure with localized centers of excellence. This approach offers client partners:

• A pan-national integrated technology including a centralized database for standard and ad-hoc reports.
• Global best practice meeting management processes, with local processes and multi-lingual capabilities tailored to specific in-country legislation, taxation, regulation and standards.
• Integrated contact and case management
• Point of service evaluation
• Data capture and tracking including interfaces to internal systems

StarCite’s global capabilities span the meeting management life-cycle and include the 5 key building blocks of PLAN, BUDGET, BUY, ATTEND, MEASURE. In addition to these recurring activities, StarCite can also facilitate cultural and business change activities.

StarCite’s SMM services global footprint is serviced by a number of centres in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, North and South Atlantic - helping to combine the effectiveness and power of global reach with the flexibility and focus of a local presence.
In an EMEA marketplace characterized by its own complexities, Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) services are uniquely positioned to succeed in supporting multinational, multi-jurisdiction and multi-lingual organization that are ready to transform their return on SMM investment.

Star-Cite benefits:

• Local Presence, Global Capabilities
• Unparalleled Supplier Leverage
• Cutting Edge Technology
• Customer Care
• Long Tradition of Service Excellence