How to use the dU website
Our website is primarily designed as an operations manual, providing information needed for your research into destinations unknown to you and in turn, helping establish suitable destinations before producing a finished presentation for your client. May we suggest that you have a good look at our website www.dudmc.com for further details. Much of the information is useful on a daily basis, others are only needed once in a blue moon, but it will really save time, effort and stress knowing where to find such information at a moments notice.
WHY NOT TRY THE FOLLOWING INTERACTIVE DEMONSTRATION TO SEE JUST HOW MUCH TIME WE CAN SAVE YOU.
FINDING A DMC
DMCs can be found in one of two ways. The first is through the DMC Partnership link on the home page of our website
www.dudmc.com. All these researched and proven DMCs are
dU Elite Partners. Each entry gives full detailed information on the DMC and the areas they cover. There are occasions when you require a DMC in a destination where we do not have
dU Elite Partner as an additional part of our service we have listed other researched DMCs in other regions under the heading
DMCs Worldwide section. Unlike our Elite Partner DMCs we cannot guarantee their service but we are able to confirm that from our ongoing research that they are bona fide DMCs, all we ask of you is that when you contact any of the DMCs listed that you let us know your views on their service you receive. Our
dU Elite Partners listed also bear an additional
logo.
DESTINATION INFORMATION
Detailed information is available on all the destinations offered by our fully researched DMCs, just try the hotlinks to see what information is available. From our home page
www.dudmc.com just select the region of the DMC Partner you require and then the country i.e. for Kenya,
African Partnership then
Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, this puts you on track to a great deal of objective information on that destination including general information on the country as well as specific information on suggested programmes, restaurant descriptions and other venue descriptions.
The GENERAL INFORMATION grid provides general but useful details such as local time, airport, electricity, geography etc. there are hot-links to web pages offering specific information on that locations climate, passport and visa requirements, health and medical, public holidays plus a useful currency conversion link. This page also provides you with detailed contact information on each of our Partner DMCs and link to their websites.
MAKING CONTACT: using web links
As with all means of communications e-mail isn't 100% reliable, all our DMCs should confirm receipt of any enquiry but if an e-mail disappears into cyberspace it can cause a great deal of stress on both sides when a quotation has to be provided at the last minute. If you use any of @dudmc.com links from our website i.e. kenya@dudmc.com not only does your enquiry go directly to the correct person at your chosen DMC, but also to us at
dU . We then also contact the DMC concerned and repeatedly contact them until we have confirmation that your e-mail has been received, if you have our Partner DMCs direct e-mail address just add the
info@dudmc.com to your request and we will also action it accordingly.
RFP: Request for Proposal Link
A response is only as good as the brief received so another means of requesting a quotation is to use our
RFP (Request for Proposal Link) that is a useful aid memoir to covering every conceivable need for your presentations.
dU+Photo+Gallery
The majority of the visuals on our
Photo Gallery are made up of our own photographs meaning that there are no royalties to pay when used in conjunction with a presentation featuring one of our Elite Partner DMCs. The photos are laid out in a slide format with high resolution copies available by double clicking on the selected slide. In addition to destination photos, the
Photo Gallery also offers airline logos and aircraft (both on the ground and in the air) of the world's leading airlines. Access to the
Photo Gallery is via our home page.
AIRLINE Web Site Links
The
Airline - Schedule page offers links to the world's major airlines website. All the airlines are broken down into regions saving you a great deal of time and effort looking up each airline on a search engine.
News and Ideas
No one wants to receive masses of irrelevant information but new ideas and reminders of what is available worldwide is the life blood of our industry. We have set about providing such information through our printed and e-mail newsletter, sample packages to use for those last minute rush enquiries and to keep you abreast of what is available inclusive of costs and the likely cost as well as destination write up such as the 'First Impressions' Series on Africa. To help you keep in touch on what is on offer and happening in the regions we represent we have four sections to help you. The first is
DMC Hot News giving details of lots of different ideas and destination updates. The second is
DMC Special Offers providing special negotiated packages offer superb value for money for your clients. The third is any
DMC Newsletters we receive. Finally
dU Newsletters offering copies of our printed newsletters in a pdf format.
Round Up
As many of you are aware, our aim is to provide you with reputable DMCs via a complimentary service. A service which many Event Planners have found a major source of information as well as a useful support service over our 18 year history.
We hope we have been able to provide an informative overview of how much help we can provide you with via our website. There is also a lot of other information available including exhibition dates, Congresses Worldwide, Trade association and much, much more.
Also in our office we hold example proposals on many of our DMCs and have copies of there Terms & conditions as well as Public Liability information. This helps when you need information quickly to send to your client. Although it is not tailored made it gives you an idea on what the destination has to offer.
Please don't forget the
dU Team are here to assist and continue to support you in the most practical way possible and ultimately provide you access to some of the most professional DMCs available in a portfolio built up over last 18 years.