financial excesses

suite complex within the Club
Med Marrakech in the heart
of the palm grove. It consists
of 60 suites spread among
small groups of two-storey
buildings built in the local
style. Precisely half the suites
are on the ground floor and
feature furnished patios and
private gardens, while the
other 30 on the first floor offer
shady, furnished balconies
with panoramic views of the
resort. Each suite comes
complete with an air-conditioned
bedroom, lounge, hairdryer,
dressing table, minibar,
telephone, flat-screen TV and
safe. Next to the bedroom is a
dressing room. In addition to
sports such as golf and horse
riding, Club Med also has a
pretty impressive number of
events and incentives to offer.
These include oriental
dancing lessons and introductions
to Moroccan cooking. To
be recommended as out-ofhouse
programmes are lunch
or dinner and a night spent in a
Berber tent, jeep tours to a
Berber camp or quad biking in
the Upper Atlas. Two-day
tours, billed as “adventure in
the Upper Atlas”, to the south
and the Kasbah route promise
thrills. Shorter are pedestrian
rallies to the souks and private,
exclusive dinners.
That the Le Riad is self-contained,
with its own pool to
which only house guests
have access, is of interest for
groups in particular – as the
participants in an exclusive incentive
trip planned shortly by
Dercongress (DERCON-
GRESS) will certainly discover
for themselves. Natascha
Weil, Marketing Manager at
Dercongress: “We have
booked the Club Med Le Riad
exclusively for a tyre manufacturer.”
As
an international
full-service
agency, Dertour’s
MICE
specialist Dercongress offers
a panoply of event management,
event, trade fair and online
services. It is tasked with
planning, organising and implementing
corporate functions,
product presentations,
conferences, meetings, seminars
and congresses, exhibition
participations, gala
events and incentives. “We
advise and plan to our clients’
wishes and objectives and
draw up event concepts within
the given budget. Both
small and big-ticket events
are realised – irrespective of
whether they are for 20, 100
or 5,000 guests, be it in Germany
or worldwide,” says
Natascha Weil. Corporate clients
can rely on the firm’s expertise
in all areas of corporate
event organisation, regardless
of whether they are
seeking individual services or
full organisation.
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Lesson in
traditional
cooking at
Club Med Le
Riad.
Quad Biking in
the Upper Atlas