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About SBV

SBV Event & Travel Consultancy (SBV) is a Professional Worldwide Venue Sourcing & Event Management Company, specializing in site selection and contract negotiation for any type of Conference, Meeting, Incentive or Special event.

Following more than 10 years in Luxury & Upper luxury hotels, Boris Vrnoga founded SBV to share his ideas, experiences and Worldwide network in the hospitality industry.

In May 2015 Menno joined the company as co-owner and director. Having spent nearly 10 years in the hotel industry bringing a wealth of knowledge and a large national and international network to SBV.

At SBV the aim is to offer clients the highest level of flexibility and work with them anywhere in the world for any type of Group, Conference, Meeting, Incentive or Special event.

Our aim for each new request is to find you, the client, the best possible venue for your upcoming group, conference or special event!

- Our Worldwide Venue Sourcing service is 100% free of charge to all our clients -

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Team

Boris Vrnoga
Founder & Director

Background

Boris spend many years across the globe working both with 4star as well as 5 star deluxe hotels.

His career started in The Netherlands where he, after successfully graduating, joined the prestigious Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin, home to the Dutch Football Team. At the family owned and managed 5 star deluxe hotel, he worked with major International companies for their conferences, incentives and meetings.

Following 5 successful years at the Beach of Amsterdam, Boris then moved across the ocean to join Great Hotels Organisation (GHO). At GHO's London based head office, Boris successfully launched the GHO Global Groups Sales Department. In the 3 years with GHO, relationships were established with all major corporate clients from all Europe as well as further afield.

In 2008, Boris joined Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide where he looked after the 4 ultra-luxury hotels in Sardinia's Costa Smeralda. He worked alongside various International corporate clients for their Product Launches, Board of Directors' Meetings and Company Incentives as well as numerous private clients.

In 2011, Boris joined an event agency as a Co – Director, getting his first experience of operating and managing his own company. In April 2012 he realizes his dream and long term ambition to set up his own company and SBV Event & Travel Consultancy became reality!

Email : boris@sbvevents.com
Mobile : +31 6 53447308
Social : LinkedIn

Menno Schifferstein
Director

Menno joined SBV in May 2015, coming on board as Co – Owner / Director to expand the business of SBV Event & Travel Consultancy.

Background

Having studied and graduated a management degree at the Hospitality Management school in The Netherlands, he then knew that sales, networking and connecting people was his strength and passion.

After finishing his degree, he then started at the Hotels van Oranje, the largest privately owned 5 star hotel in Noordwijk aan Zee (Beach of Amsterdam). In the 6 successful years with the Hotels van Oranje, as International Sales Manager, he looked after all major International Conferences that took place in the hotel (main client focus United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and USA).

In 2013, he was then approached to join the new Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam, one of Amsterdam's finest new landmark 5 star luxury hotels.

During his time at the Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam he was part of the pre opening team and successfully positioned the hotel as Amsterdams' leading luxury hotel, overseeing Groups, Consortia, Corporate & FIT Sales.

In his role as Sales Director, he was the primary contact for Corporate event planners, looking to organize a worldwide board meeting, senior management company incentive or high end product launch. On top of the above he also welcomed International delegations like the Royal Family of the UAE and embassies at the hotel.

Email : menno@sbvevents.com
Mobile : +31 6 3830 6670
Social : LinkedIn

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OUR SERVICES

Worldwide Venue Sourcing

Finding the right hotel within your budget is often a very time consuming part of the actual booking process, especially when multiple destinations are involved. A process that you, the client, not always have the time for.

Sourcing the right hotel or venue is our expertise so please let us take over this time consuming role!

We will of course first discuss your brief together in detail. What then follows is an overview of relevant venues to be approached for your request. SBV has excellent contacts with all major hotel groups Worldwide as well as with many of the hidden gems that independent hotels often are.

Our contacts, often with senior members within a hotel sales team or hotel group, as well as our knowledge of hotel revenue management processes around the globe enables us to negotiate best rates in a very efficient and professional way.

We aim to have all offers to you in the same format within 48hrs of receiving your initial request.

Presenting all venues or hotels in one and the same format will make it very easy for you, the client, to compare rates for the various hotels or destinations you are considering for your upcoming event.

SBV has sourced hotels and venues for any type of event being it a Worldwide Conference, Exclusive Management Meeting or Unique Annual Sales Incentive.

We source and book events on behalf of our clients on a daily basis in major European cities for audiences as small as 4 to 500+, however are also very comfortable and experienced in finding the right venue in more far flung destinations such as New York, Sao Paulo, Cape Town and Puerto Rico to name a few.

Our experience, market knowledge, extensive senior industry contacts and longstanding relationships with many of the main players in the hospitality industry will not only guarantee you best rates but also best possible service during your actual event.

SBV has strong relationships with all major hotel chains as well as works very closely with niche private hotels chains and individual hotels all around the world. SBV is totally independent, impartial and trusted.

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OUR SERVICES

Worldwide Event Management

On top of our Worlwide Venue Finding Service, SBV can also offer you Worldwide Event Management for any type of event, anywhere in the world.

On behalf of our clients we have worked on concepts and executed successful events in major conference destinations as Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris and Stockholm, but also and less usual destinations or Worldwide hubs such as Casablanca, Sao Paulo, Cape Town & New York.

See below just a selection of services we can assist you with:

- Budget planning and management
- Programme logistics
- Supplier contracts and coordination
- On Site venue management
- Welcome gifts, amenities & awards
- Ground transportation
- Audio Visual production services and management
- Guest speaker arrangements
- Invitations, delegate liaison and communication
- Decoration and florists

For your events, we work with a variety of Partners and Destination Specialists. At SBV, we strongly believe that working with a selection of like-minded people in the hospitality industry will always be beneficial for our clients.

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Partners & Destination Specialists

One of the secrets of the success of SBV Event & Travel Consultancy is our network of Partners & Destinations Specialist, many of whom we are proud to call our friends and who all know exactly what our clients' requirements and standards are. On top of the usual services we can provide for your event, our ‘Friends' can often open some very special doors to rare and unique experiences anywhere in the world! Over a period of time we have visited numerous countries, stayed at even more hotels but above all engaged with the people who matter. People who can ‘open doors' and make things happen. Within our network we have met people we have come to rely on to help us create unforgettable experiences – setting us apart from the competition.

Are you looking for a private exclusive behind the scene tour of a world renowned museum in Paris, a gala dinner venue for 500+ people in Rome or perhaps a unique dessert safari experience in South Africa? At SBV we pride ourselves on working only with the best Partners and Destination Specialists in the industry that will assist you with all of the above and much more.

Our personal approach and excellent network of local Partners & Destinations Specialist will ultimately reduce your work pressure and all of this with a single point of contact.

Together with our Partners & Destinations Specialist we will help you achieve the main focus of your event while we take care of the logistics.

At SBV we still strongly believe it is the people in our industry that matter and make the difference…….yet are so often overlooked!

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OUR SERVICES

Worldwide Venue Sourcing




Worldwide Event Management

On top of our Worlwide Venue Finding Service, SBV can also offer you Worldwide Event Management for any type of event, anywhere in the world.

On behalf of our clients we have worked on concepts and executed successful events in places such as Lisbon, Barcelona, Paris and Stockholm, but also far flung and less usual destinations such as Casablanca, Sao Paulo, Cape Town & New York.

See below just a selection of services we can assist you with:

- Budget planning and management
- Programme logistics
- Supplier contracts and coordination
- On Site venue management
- Welcome gifts, amenities & awards
- Ground transportation
- Audio Visual production services and management
- Exclusive recreational services
- Guest speaker arrangements
- Hospitality desk services
- Invitations, delegate liaison and communication
- Decoration and florists

For your events, we work with a variety of Partners and Destination Specialists. At SBV, we strongly believe that working with a selection of like-minded people in the hospitality industry will always be beneficial for our clients.




Partners & Destination Specialists

One of the secrets of the success of SBV Event & Travel Consultancy is our network of Partners & Destinations Specialist, many of whom we are proud to call our friends and who all know exactly what our clients' requirements and standards are. On top of the usual services we can provide for your event, our ‘Friends' can often open some very special doors to rare and unique experiences anywhere in the world! Over a period of time we have visited numerous countries, stayed at even more hotels but above all engaged with the people who matter. People who can ‘open doors' and make things happen. Within our network we have met people we have come to rely on to help us create unforgettable experiences – setting us apart from the competition.

Are you looking for a private exclusive behind the scene tour of a world renowned museum in Paris, a gala dinner venue for 500+ people in Rome or perhaps a unique dessert safari experience in South Africa? At SBV we pride ourselves on working only with the best Partners and Destination Specialists in the industry that will assist you with all of the above and much more.

Our personal approach and excellent network of local Partners & Destinations Specialist will ultimately reduce your work pressure and all of this with a single point of contact.

Together with our Partners & Destinations Specialist we will help you achieve the main focus of your event while we take care of the logistics.

At SBV we still strongly believe it is the people in our industry that matter and make the difference……. yet are so often overlooked!

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WHY SBV

SBV Event & Travel Consultancy (SBV) we provide a Professional Worldwide Venue Sourcing Service for our clients. Booking through SBV will provide you with an added value that you cannot find elsewhere.

We provide our clients with a very discreet, personal and knowledge based service.

Knowledge
We spend a good amount of our time to meet with (new) suppliers either at our offices or whenever we can we will travel there where we feel our clients will benefit from having first-hand knowledge. Travelling to less known destinations, staying at new venues in established cities and meeting with possible new Partners and Destination Specialists are all part of our day to day work. Ultimately our experience and Worldwide contacts become your resource which is the added value that we will contribute.

We have first hand knowledge of hotels and destinations....being totally independent we will always tell you the pros AND cons

Personal service
We love what we do and strongly believe that the hospitality industry is about that ‘extra’ personal service. From the moment you call or email us, you will have one and the same contact. We will look after your request, no matter how small or large, with the same care and dedication that you can expect from a Professional Venue Finder.

Being very flexible, we work with clients from different sectors from various countries often requesting our services on different hours of the day. Ultimately we save you, our client, valuable time and money.

Expertise
SBV is totally independent and will therefor always offer you an impartial advice. With our proactive and extremely flexible approach we proud ourselves of being able to open doors to venues and places not always available to everyone.

At SBV we make it our business to constantly be up to date with any new venues, hotel openings or restaurants that come available on the market. We invest a large proportion of our time and budget to travel the globe to meet, face to face, with hoteliers, local suppliers and destination experts. Of course, our doors are always open and we welcome our partners to update us on a weekly basis so that we can share our knowledge and excellent contacts with you

- Our Worldwide Venue Sourcing service is 100% free of charge to all our clients -

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Our Work & Our clients

Our clients are made up of medium size and large Multinationals from various different industries from all over the world.

We are very proud of working for some of the worlds' leading companies and even more so proud that we have worked with them for many years and assisted them on projects all over the world.

Whether you are an Executive Assistant planning your company's board meeting or a member of your company's Events Team and planning your next International Conference, SBV can help you.

- a Board Meeting for 12 persons in London?
- a Car Launch presentation for 70 persons in Puerto Rico?
- a Partners Retreat for 350 persons in Vienna?
- a Regional Client event for 120 persons in Bangkok?

We provide unique solutions for each individual event, conference or meeting. We believe that we know and understand our business, spending a considerable amount of time to meet with new hotels, local suppliers and possible new partners.

A small selection of destinations we have worked in the past years or will be working in the future:

Major Captitals Worldwide

  • Amsterdam
  • Dubai
  • Stockholm
  • Madrid
  • Istanbul
  • Copenhagen
  • Vienna
  • Prague
  • Brussels
  • Paris
  • London
  • Athens
  • New York
  • Milan
  • Berlin
  • Budapest
  • Warsaw





Popular Conference & Incentive destinations

  • Cannes
  • Marbella
  • Sao Paolo
  • Barcelona
  • Ibiza
  • Marrakech
  • Cascais
  • Miami
  • Los Angeles
  • Bangkok
  • Lisbon
  • Bogota
  • Rome
  • Puerto Rico
  • Mallorca
  • San Francisco



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Contact

Email : boris@sbvevents.com
Telephone : +31 6 5344 7308
Post : SBV Event & Travel Consultancy

Email : menno@sbvevents.com
Telephone : +31 6 3830 6670
Post : SBV Event & Travel Consultancy

Czaar Peterstraat 105
1018PE, Amsterdam
The Netherlands

It would be our pleasure to hear from you and meet you personally to discuss how best we can assist you with your upcoming project. We prefer to do this in a personal conversation where we feel we can better share past and future projects with you, which relate to the event you are planning and hopefully will excite you and give you new and unique ideas.

We are looking forward to hearing from you,

Boris & Menno

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