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 Some
of our success stories, not all that we have done, just some of the high points.
The list of satisfied customers just keeps growing. Give us a chance to
pass along some of our stories about places like Atlanta,
Sydney, Salt Lake City, Athens and Torino.
Coming Attractions, 2007 and
2008:
• Orlando,
2008, Ground Transportation for Worldwide Convention for McDonald’s
Corporation, 15,000 attendees, 17 hotels, 3 Global general sessions, one
opening night reception, one final night gala, VIP & Celebrity
transfers, and 12 open night receptions city-wide. This will be our
11th Worldwide Convention. Look below at what we did in 2006.
• Beijing,
2008, Ground Transportation for Top Sponsor at the Summer Olympics,
Beijing, China, month of August, 2008
Already completed, but fresh on our
minds.
2007
• Dallas,
individual meet & greet for 140 VIP attendees, 3 off-site functions,
departures
• Gurnee,
Registration of 2,500 employees and their families, then ticket
distribution of 9,000 tickets to the attendees for corporate family event
in September, 2007
• Las Vegas,
16,000 attendees, meet & greet, McCarran Airport, to/from 7 hotels,
daily citywide shuttle between hotels and exhibits, 2 moves from all
properties to/ from General Session and Closing Session, arrivals &
departures, registration staffing, directional staffing
• Las Vegas,
Pharmaceutical Company, meet & Greet 100 attendees, Las
Vegas, to/from Loew’s Lake Las Vegas, 2 off-site events,
arrivals & departures
• Chicago,
McDonald’s Corporation, meet & greet O’Hare & Midway Airports, 250
attendees, to/from Renaissance Downtown, 1 off-site event, arrivals &
departures
• Chicago,
McDonald’s Corporation, meet & greet O’Hare & Midway Airports, 225
attendees, to/from Ritz Carlton Chicago, 1 off-site event, arrivals &
departures
• San
Francisco, Corporate group, meet & greet SFO, 400 attendees,
to/from Westin St Francis, 2 off-site events, arrivals & departures
• Louisville, Ground Transportation for
McDonald’s All American High School Basketball Game in Louisville, including arrivals &
departures and daily movement between venues
• Dallas,
Pharmaceutical Company, meet & greet 900 attendees, to/from Gaylord
Texan and Hyatt Regency DFW, VIP transfers, 2 off-site events, arrivals
& departures
2006
• Winged Foot,
US Open Corporate transportation at Winged Foot,
NY
• Chicago, 2006
American Society of Anesthesiologists Convention Shuttle, October, 2007.
17,000 Attendees, 8 routes, 56 Peak Coaches, 6 days, McCormick Place,
Chicago, Illinois, pickups and dropoffs in both LakeSide Building and North Building.
• Gurnee,
Registration of 2,500 employees and their families, then ticket distribution
of 9,000 tickets to the attendees for corporate family event in September
• San Diego,
Ground Transportation for McDonald’s All American High School Basketball
Game in San Diego, CA. March 2006
• Orlando, Ground
Transportation for Worldwide Convention for McDonald’s Corporation,
12,000 attendees, 17 hotels, 3 Global general sessions, one opening night
reception, one final night gala, VIP & Celebrity transfers, and 12 open
night receptions city-wide. This was our 10th Worldwide Convention.
1. Convention shuttle - 9
routes, more than 10,000 ridership per day from 14 hotels (3 walk-over
hotels), including 100 peak coaches 40 off-peak buses and 45 staff
daily;
2. Full convention move
to and from Universal Studios, 200 coaches, 17 hotels, timed to commence at
each hotel to have first buses arrive at 7:30 pm, cleared all curbs by 8:00
pm. Event ended at 11:30 pm, and curb was clear at Universal by 12:20
am.
3. All VIP &
Celebrity transportation- arrivals, departures, charters, over 450
individual transportation requests during the week.
4. Set up and
managed the ground transportation for 12 off-night events, ranging in size
from a 17 passenger minibus taking a group of executives to dinner to a 36
coach shuttle between 17 hotels and Universal City Walk for the company's US division
to gather for 4 hours.
5. Concierge Services
desk with travel arrangers, restaurant reservations, local information,
local ticket sales;
6. Ushers for General
Sessions;
7. Hotel welcome
desk staffing;
8. Airport greet staffing;
9. Provided
transportation for daily Child-care program tours
• New Orleans,
Ground transportation management services for 3,500 person
Avaya National Sales Meeting. Handled all arrivals over 3 days, all
departures over 3 days, multiple hotels, daily shuttle service between
hotels & Morial Conv Center,
125 individual VIP transfers.
• Phoenix,
Ground Transportation for Pharmaceutical group of 100 in Fountain Hills,
Arizona, arrivals, departures and one off-site function
• Torino,
Italy, Ground Transportation for Top Sponsor at the Winter Olympics,
Torino, Italy, month of February 2006. Under most stressful conditions, we
had people staying in 5 different hotels, 3 spread out in Torino and 2
outside Torino. We transported the folks
from those 5 hotels to work in 3 different areas, secure areas which
required accreditation for all, and to events,
restaurants, entertainment, work, etc for the whole month of February.
2005
• Las Vegas, Ground transportation management
services for 3 back to back conventions of 5,000-6,000 attendees each held
at the Mandalay Bay, TheHotel @
Mandalay Bay, the Luxor, and Paris hotels in Las
Vegas in June. Handled 2 days of arrivals and one
departure day for each wave, daily shuttles between properties as needed,
and in excess of 300 individual VIP transfers over all 3 waves.
• Las Vegas, Ground transportation management
services for 3,500 person Avaya National Sales
Meeting in Las Vegas.
Handled all arrivals over 3 days, all departures over 3 days, 3 hotels
(Wynn, Mirage, Treasure
Island), daily shuttle service between the 3 hotels from 0630
until 2130 hours, 125 individual VIP transfers. Highlight of week, despite
having more than half of the attendees at the Mirage and Treasure Island,
we moved all of the attendees over to the Wynn on Monday morning for the
kickoff General Session, and everyone was in place for the 0800 hours start
time.
• South Bend, McDonald’s All American High School
Basketball Game transportation in South
Bend, Indiana
• Chicago,
Ground Transportation for McDonald’s top 100 performers worldwide, Chicago
O’Hare to/from hotel, and evening gathering. April 2005
• Chicago,
Ground transportation management services for 1,100 person Pharmaceutical
National Sales Meeting at Hyatt O’Hare, including staffing and minibus
ground transportation for all personnel arrivals and departures, all VIP
arrivals & departures & movement between functions, entertainment
celebrity arrivals & departures & to/from performance, arrivals
& departures for concurrent 100 attendee Doctor symposium, and movement
of all attendees between Hyatt O’Hare and Dave and Buster’s in
Addison. Also handled 5 restaurant dine-around
for 150 of attendees. Handled all changes to agenda and also to procedure
without flaw.
2004
- Athens, 2004 Olympics, top sponsor ground
transportation in Athens,
Greece
- Gurnee,
Corporate family function, electronic request and ticket distribution
for approximately 10,000 participants.
- Orlando, Worked on our 9th McDonald's Corporation
2004 Worldwide Convention. This year it was in Orlando Florida.
We developed the plan for and then operated/managed the following:
- Convention shuttle - 9 routes with 10,000
ridership per day from 12 hotels , including 100 peak coaches 40
off-peak buses and 45 staff daily;
- Full convention move to and from The Magic
Kingdom, 200 coaches, 12,000 people from 12 hotels, timed to commence
at each hotel to have first buses arrive at 7:30 pm, cleared all
curbs by 8:00 pm. Event ended at 11:30 pm, and curb was clear at the
Magic Kingdom by 12:20 am.
- All VIP transportation- arrivals,
departures, charters, over 350 individual transportation requests
during the week.
- Set up and managed the ground transportation
for 12 off-night events, ranging in size from a 17 passenger minibus
taking a group of executives to dinner to a 30 coach shuttle between
12 hotels and Pleasure Island for the company's US
division to gather for 4 hours.
- Concierge Services desk with travel
arrangers, restaurant reservations, local information, local ticket
sales;
- Ushers for General Sessions;
- Hotel welcome desk staffing;
- Airport greet staffing;
- Assisted managing the Childcare program for
200 kids daily
- When there was an unexpected change in
McDonald's leadership, we stopped the shuttle 15 minutes before it
started on Monday, then re-started it 4
hours later. On the fly, we accommodated the move of the opening
general session from Monday to Tuesday, Tuesday's US general session from Tuesday to
Wednesday and the US
division's reception move from Tuesday to Wednesday. This meant
immediate changes in our daily Peak bus numbers, and our coach
supplier was able to make enough of the changes for us that it was
relatively unnoticed by the attendee.
- Orlando, Managed World of Concrete shuttle, Orlando, 54
hotels, 13 routes, ridership around 20,000 a day.
- Las Vegas, Pharmaceutical group, Las Vegas, 90 pp, arrivals,
departures, dine-around, off-site moves
2003
- Las
Vegas,
2003 - 3 waves of arrivals, shuttle to convention center and
departures. Each wave of 3,000 to 4,000 participants and 3 days in
length. June, 2003 in Las
Vegas.
- Olympia Fields, 2003 - handled all ground transportation
for corporate sponsor at the US Open, Olympia Fields, IL. June 2003. Utilized fleet of mini-coaches to
move attendees between the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago and the Country Club in
Olympia Fields.
- Cleveland, 003 - handled all transportation (airport
arrivals and departures, daily transportation to/from practices, local
tours, meals, game) for McDonald's All-American High School Basketball
Teams in Cleveland
- Phoenix, 2003 - Pharmaceutical Company Sales
Meeting, 350 attendees, arrivals, departures, dine-around involving 18
different restaurants
2002
- 2002 - Salt
Lake City, ground transportation and staffing
for Olympic Corporate Sponsor
- 2002 - Las
Vegas, ground transportation and staffing
for Corporate Worldwide Convention, estimated attendance, 18,000
- 2002 - Setup, electronic registration of
attendees, ticket distribution of 10,000 tickets to attendees
- 2002 - Transportation management for Awards
of Excellence concert held at Arie Crown
Theatre, Chicago.
Handled transport for 12 celebrities and entourages for all practices
and final performances, also for corporate executives and families and
honorees. Concert shown on Television in November 2002
2001
- 2001 - 25 person medical meeting in Jacksonville,
arrivals & departures with meet & greet, off-site dining
- 2001 - 180 person medical meeting in Miami, arrivals
& departures with meet & greet, off-site dinners
- 2001 - Setup, electronic registration of
attendees, ticket distribution of 11,700 tickets to attendees, and
coordination of return of > 3,000 tickets that were unused due to
09/11/01 with refunds to those returning purchased tickets.
- 2001 - Coordination of all ground shuttles
for trade show in Las Vegas
with listed attendance of 73,000
And before,
- 1st Quarter, 2000 - Executive meeting (125
pp) in Las Vegas,
ground transportation
- 1st Quarter, 2000 - 30 person departmental
outing in San Francisco,
ground transportation, meal functions, accommodations, R & R
activities, local tours
- 2nd Quarter, 2000 - Worldwide convention in
Orlando (18,000 pp), meet & greet, convention shuttle, divisional
and departmental functions, gala event for all at local attraction,
concierge services, child care, development of convention web site
- 3rd Quarter, 2000 - Corporate Company-wide
picnic, registration and entrance ticket distribution
- 4th Quarter, 2000 - ground transportation and
staffing for 3 day Corporate event in Chicago for 400 attendees
- 4th Quarter, 1999 - 50 person departmental
outing for 3 days out of state, provided ground transportation to and
from, oversaw all meal functions, hotel accommodations, R & R
activities
- 3rd Quarter, 1999 - 1,500 visitors from over
seas to Chicago
for a week. Provided airport meet & greet, airport
transfers, local tours on 2 afternoons, transportation to and from a
gala black tie event.
- 2nd Quarter, 1998 - 17,000 attendees to
worldwide convention in Orlando,
airport meet & greet, convention shuttle, divisional and
departmental functions, gala event for all at local attraction,
concierge services, child care.
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