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 to establish suitable destinations prior to you producing the 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 provided we consider of great use to you on a daily basis. Other information may only be needed once in a while, but it really will save you time, effort and stress knowing where to find such information at a moment's notice.
WHY NOT TAKE A LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING POINTERS TO HELP YOU GET STARTED AND 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
dU Represented DMCs Link link on the home page of our website
www.dudmc.com. All of our
dU Elite Partners have been fully researched and must adhere to our strict criteria. Each entry on our website gives full, detailed information on the DMC and the areas they cover. There may be occasions where you require a DMC in a destination where we do not have a
dU Elite Partner, so as an additional part of our service we have listed additional researched DMCs in other regions under the heading DMCs Worldwide. Unlike our Elite Partner DMCs we cannot guarantee their standard of service, but we are able to confirm from our ongoing research that they are bona-fide DMCs. All we ask of you is to let us know your views on the service that you receive from these particular DMC listings. In order to differentiate our
dU Elite Partners from the additional non-partner DMC, we highlight each with the following logo -
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DESTINATION INFORMATION
Detailed information is available on all the destinations offered by our DMCs; just click on the hotlinks to view the information available. Via the homepage
www.dudmc.com select the region of the DMC Partner that you require and then the country, i.e. for Kenya click on
African Partnership then
Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. This will then lead you to the detailed information that we have provided on this particular destination, including general details and facts. We also provide specific information on suggested programmes and other venue descriptions.
The GENERAL INFORMATION section provides useful details such as local time, airport, electricity, geography etc. There are also hotlinks to the web-pages offering specific information on the location's climate, passport and visa requirements, health and medical information, public holidays plus a useful currency conversion link. This page also provides you with detailed contact information on each of our Partner DMCs and a link to their websites.
MAKING CONTACT: Using Web Links
As with all means of communication, email isn't always 100% reliable. All our DMCs should confirm receipt of any enquiry; however should an email disappear into cyberspace at any time it can cause a great deal of stress on both sides, especially when a quotation has to be provided at the last minute. If you use any of the
@dudmc.com links from our website i.e.
kenya@dudmc.com not only does your enquiry go directly to the correct person at the office of your chosen DMC, but also to us at
dU . We then also contact the DMC concerned to ensure that your email has been received; if you already have any of our Partner DMCs direct email addresses 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 and so an alternative means of requesting a quotation is to use our
RFP (Request for Proposal Link) which acts as a useful 'aide-memoire' for 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 images (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 WebSite Links
The
Airline - Schedule page offers web links to the world's major airlines. All the airlines are broken down into regions saving you a great deal of time and effort when searching for each airline through the various search engines.
News and Ideas
Nobody likes to receive masses of irrelevant information, however new ideas and reminders of what is available worldwide is the lifeblood of our industry. We have set about providing such information through our printed and e-mail newsletter and sample packages to use for those last minute enquiries. This information has also been provided to keep you abreast of what services are available, inclusive of costs and estimates, as well as destination write-up such as the 'First Impressions' Series on Africa.
To help you keep up-to-date on what is on offer and happening within the regions we represent we have four sections to help you. The first is
DMC Hot News giving details such as destination updates etc. The second is
DMC Special Offers providing specially negotiated packages offering superb value for money for your clients. The third is any
DMC Newsletters we receive. Finally,
dU Newsletters offers copies of our printed newsletters in a PDF format.
In Summary
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 to be a major source of information as well as a useful support service over our 19 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 associations and much, much more.
Also, within our office we hold example proposals for many of our DMCs and have copies of their Terms & Conditions, as well as Public Liability information. This helps when you need information quickly to send to your client. Although it is not tailor-made it gives you an idea on what the destination has to offer.
Please don't forget that the
dU Team are here to assist you. We will continue to support you in the most practical way possible and ultimately provide you with access to some of the most professional DMCs available in a portfolio, which has been built up over the last 19 years.