AIM is a nationwide “kitemark” for venues and service providers in the meetings and events industry, giving buyers the reassurance of quality, professionalism and value-for-money.    As well as suitability of facilities, each AIM venue is individually assessed for legal compliance and is required to meet a strict code of conduct in regard to its business processes.

Meanwhile, Four Pillars Hotels have introduced bespoke software for iPad streaming across the group, giving speakers the opportunity to deliver innovative and highly impressive presentations to unlimited iPads.   The software also enables delegates to send live questions to the presenter from their iPads and the presenter can run live electronic voting sessions, with the results published real time.   The service allows organisers to run a professional digital event, with full audience participation and feedback throughout the day, as well as survey evaluations and data capture post event.

Jane Longhurst, mia Chief Executive, the keepers of the AIM standard said, “I commend Four Pillars Hotels for the strategic vision shown in the decision to achieve AIM across all its properties. AIM is a reassurance to meetings and event buyers that the facilities and value provided by a venue meet industry benchmarked standards, it means they can have confidence their event will be a success. Achieving AIM sends a message to buyers that a venue is superior, so it’s not surprising that an increasing number are insisting on AIM before making a booking.”

Nikki Farr, Director of Sales for Meetings and Events, says “Following the launch of our Meetings Four You offering last year, the new AIM certification and iPad streaming reinforce our commitment to providing a professional and innovative meetings and events service to our clients.   We pride ourselves on being small enough to care, yet big enough to deliver and continually seek news ways to deliver exceptional service and facilities to both old and new clients.”

From a Victorian mansion to a contemporary lakeside resort to a property in a prime city location, Four Pillars’ extensive facilities are perfect for all kinds of events, from a board meeting to a major conference or team building event.   Introduced in 2011, the company’s Meetings Four You produced was designed to give the meetings planner total flexibility and a tailor-made solution for each event, with a range of options including the unpackaged “meetings by the hour” where clients only pay for the things they need.

Find out more about meetings at Four Pillars Hotels by visiting the Meetings Four You website

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We are proud to announce that we have teamed up with Bluestorm Solutions & Tablet Rentals Ltd to offer iPad streaming software for events, conferences, and summits. They are able to provide FULL 360 solution to our costumers, including the software, full setup, support onsite and even the actual iPads, as they rent iPads for the event through Tablet Rentals Ltd.

The iPad streaming software works by giving each delegates at your event an iPad while you hold your presentation. While you go through your different slides, those following the presentation will get the same images on their iPad screens and even more so, it gives new possibilities of interacting with those listening throughout your presentations.

Some of the features of the iPad streaming technology include the possibility of:

Streaming the presentation to an unlimited amount of iPads

LIVE ability to submit comments and questions on individual iPads throughout the presentation that can be viewed after

LIVE iPad voting in polls that can be added into the presentation

LIVE voting results submitted within the presentation

Ability to save voting results, questions, comments and other interaction captured from the audience

Branded iPads with corporate or event logo

The iPads will be set up, configured, and delivered ready-to-use to your event on the day, and this exclusive new iPad technology for events will give your audience a new innovative way to interact with your presentation like never before!

So what are you waiting for? If you have a presentation coming up at your next event, conference, meeting, or any other place you can see this great new iPad streaming technology work, just contact 0203 551 9997 / 0207 749 7242.

Plus, hire iPads from Bluestorm Solutions as part of your event at a Four Pillars Hotel and get a 10% discount. Quote Four Pillars 2012 when booking.

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When you visit a Four Pillars Hotel, we want to ensure you feel as ‘connected’ as you do at the home or in the office.

With our wireless internet service guests can keep in touch whether in your bedroom, a conference room or just relaxing in the bar.

We are pleased to offer FREE Wi-Fi access throughout all Four Pillars Hotels.

This is enhanced at our Cotswold Water Park and Tortworth Court Hotels where a 10mb dedicated line has been installed.

To gain access guests will need to collect a voucher from reception. There is a limit on the connection speed and data transfer. For guests wanting connection and/or transfer rates above the “free levels” business vouchers can be purchased. 

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Organisations keen to ensure they uphold their CSR policies throughout all areas of the business and reduce energy use wherever possible can just log onto www.meetingsfouryou.co.uk and use the online calculator tool to determine how many trees they would need to plant to offset their own event or meeting.  The results are produced in an easy to read spreadsheet format and the request can be submitted electronically to Four Pillars, who will organise the planting of the trees and prepare a certificate for your company in advance, simply adding the final cost to your invoice.

This initiative follows the news that all six of the Four Pillars Hotels have been awarded the Silver rating under the Green Tourism Business Scheme, which our CEO Charles Holmes describes as “a tremendous accolade and a great credit to the teams involved.  Responsible tourism is an important part of what we do and we will continue to work towards improving our ratings as we move forward”.

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