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Jana kwenye matangazo ya BBC nilisikia wakisema kuwa gharama za kuhudhuria mkutano wa World Economic Forum huko Davos zinaanzia $71,000 hadi $300,000 (kama sikosei) kwa kichwa.
Leo katika kubrowse nikaipata hii article:
Cost of attending Davos forum? If you have to ask, you cant afford it
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, International Herald Tribune, New York | Wed, 01/26/2011 2:06 PM | Business A | A | A |
What is the price tag to be aDavosMan?
Chief executives, government leaders
and academics around the world are
headed to Davos, Switzerland, for the
World Economic Forums annual meeting
this week a heady power gathering
that mixes business, politics and
Champagne in the Swiss Alps. It is an
event that draws a wide range of decision
makers, from Jamie Dimon, the
chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou
of Greece to Bono of the band U2, ostensibly
to contemplate how to solve the
worlds problems.
Of course, much of the week is really
about one thing: networking. As the author
of The Black Swan, Nassim N.
Taleb, described it to Tom Keene of
Bloomberg Television, the event was
chasing successful people who want to
be seen with other successful people.
Thats the game.
An invitation to the meeting is supposed
to be considered an exclusive
honor. But for corporate executives, being
a DavosMan, or, yes, a DavosWoman,
even for just a couple of days, does
not come cheap.
For the past week, I have interviewed
more than a dozen chief executives and
other executives who regularlymake the
pilgrimage to mingle at a high altitude, to
measure the true financial cost for corporations
of attending the annual meeting.
But beforewe get to the fees for private
planes, hotels, a car and driver, there is
the all-important ticket. And it is not free.
Just to have the opportunity to be invited
to Davos, you must be invited to be
a member of the World Economic Forum,
a Swiss nonprofit group that was
founded by Klaus Schwab, a Germanborn
academic who managed to build a
global conference in the snow.
There are several levels of membership:
the basic level, which will get you
one invitation to Davos, costs 50,000
Swiss francs, or about $52,000.The ticket
itself costs another 18,000 Swiss francs
plus tax, bringing the total cost of membership
and entrance fee to $71,000.
But that fee just gets you in the door
with the masses at Davos, with entry to
all the general sessions. If you want to
be invited behind the velvet rope to participate
in private sessions among your
industrys peers, you need to step up to
the industry associate level. That
costs $137,000, plus the price of the ticket,
bringing the total to about $156,000.
Of course, most chief executives do
not like going anywhere alone, so they
might ask colleagues along. Well, the
World Economic Forum does not let you
just buy an additional ticket for $19,000.
Instead, you need to upgrade your annual
membership to the industry partner
level. That will set you back about
$263,000, plus the cost of two tickets,
bringing the total to $301,000.
And if you want to take an entourage,
say, five people? Now you are talking
about the strategic partner level. The
price tag: $527,000. (That is just the annual
membership entitling you to as
many as five invitations. Each invitation
still costs $19,000 each, so if five people
come, that is $95,000, making the total
$622,000.) This year, all strategic partners
are required to invite at least one
woman as part of an effort to diversify
the list of those attending.
As part of the strategic partner level,
you get access to the private sessions,
as well as special conference rooms to
hold meetings. And perhaps the biggest
perk of all, your car and driver are given
a sticker allowing door-to-door service.
At the moment, the forum says it is
not accepting applications for strategic
partner unless the company is from
China or India, and it must be one of the
250 largest companies in the world.
In fairness, it is worth pointing out
that membership at all levels gets you
access not only to the meeting in Davos,
but also access to at least a half-dozen
other meetings held around the world.
Membership also gives you access to
the forums various research projects.
All those costs, of course, do not include
the travel-related costs of getting
to Switzerland, schlepping around and
perhaps holding a dinner or a cocktail
party for clients (which is where the real
action is, anyway).
One large investor is renting a fivebedroom
chalet this year just outside
Davos for himself and his staff. The
cost: $140,000 for the week. A car and
driver, which the World Economic Forum
will arrange for you, is about
$10,000 a week for aMercedes S Class.
A first-class fare from New York to
Zurich is running at about $11,000. But a
private plane using NetJets will cost
about $70,000 for a round trip. Helicopter
service from Zurich to Davos?
$3,400 each way. (The forum provides a
free bus service for those worried about
environmental footprints.)
Of course, many companies have dinners
for clients, with dinners on multiple
evenings for some firms.
At the Posthotel, for example, the restaurant
is charging a minimum of $210 a
head. A cocktail party for 60 to 80 people
for just one hour? That costs about
$8,000. Two hours: $16,000.
The bigger parties, like one that will
be given by Google on Friday night for
several hundred people, can run more
than $250,000 for the evening. (In years
past, Google has flown in the band and
bartenders; one year, the company had
an oxygen bar.)
All these embedded costs have helped
make the World Economic Forum a big
business perhaps the biggest conference
organizer in the world. According
to its annual report, it brings in about
$185 million in revenue and spends
nearly all of it, with almost half of its
costs going toward events and the other
half toward personnel.
But all this spending may soon be going
out of vogue.
As one participant, the author David
Rothkopf, recently wrote on his blog,
The entire endeavor is fading for several
reasons, all associated with the inadequacy
of Davos as a networking forum.
He explained, As Steve Case,
founder of AOL, once told me while
standing at the bar in the middle of the
hubbub of the main conference center:
You always feel like you are in the
wrong place in Davos, like there is some
better meeting going on somewhere in
one of the hotels that you really ought to
be at. Like the real Davos is happening
in secret somewhere.
My Take:
Toka kipindi cha Mkapa hadi sasa JK, viongozi hawa wamekuwa na utamaduni wa kuhudhuria sana huu mkutano. Kwangu mimi naona huu mkutano ni wa gharama mno. Ningeomba kama kuna anayejua anisaidie kunifanunulia haya maswali:
1. Je tunaweza kujua jamaa huwa wanalipiwa na nani kwenye huu mkutano?
2. Na kama wanalipiwa na serikali huwa wanaenda na akina nani
3. Je gharama yake kwa ujumla (safari nzima) ni kiasi gani?
4. Na mwisho ni nini manufaa yake kiuchumi kwa Tanzania katika kila mkutano wanaohudhuria?
Jana kwenye matangazo ya BBC nilisikia wakisema kuwa gharama za kuhudhuria mkutano wa World Economic Forum huko Davos zinaanzia $71,000 hadi $300,000 (kama sikosei) kwa kichwa.
Leo katika kubrowse nikaipata hii article:
Cost of attending Davos forum? If you have to ask, you cant afford it
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, International Herald Tribune, New York | Wed, 01/26/2011 2:06 PM | Business A | A | A |
What is the price tag to be aDavosMan?
Chief executives, government leaders
and academics around the world are
headed to Davos, Switzerland, for the
World Economic Forums annual meeting
this week a heady power gathering
that mixes business, politics and
Champagne in the Swiss Alps. It is an
event that draws a wide range of decision
makers, from Jamie Dimon, the
chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, and
Prime Minister George A. Papandreou
of Greece to Bono of the band U2, ostensibly
to contemplate how to solve the
worlds problems.
Of course, much of the week is really
about one thing: networking. As the author
of The Black Swan, Nassim N.
Taleb, described it to Tom Keene of
Bloomberg Television, the event was
chasing successful people who want to
be seen with other successful people.
Thats the game.
An invitation to the meeting is supposed
to be considered an exclusive
honor. But for corporate executives, being
a DavosMan, or, yes, a DavosWoman,
even for just a couple of days, does
not come cheap.
For the past week, I have interviewed
more than a dozen chief executives and
other executives who regularlymake the
pilgrimage to mingle at a high altitude, to
measure the true financial cost for corporations
of attending the annual meeting.
But beforewe get to the fees for private
planes, hotels, a car and driver, there is
the all-important ticket. And it is not free.
Just to have the opportunity to be invited
to Davos, you must be invited to be
a member of the World Economic Forum,
a Swiss nonprofit group that was
founded by Klaus Schwab, a Germanborn
academic who managed to build a
global conference in the snow.
There are several levels of membership:
the basic level, which will get you
one invitation to Davos, costs 50,000
Swiss francs, or about $52,000.The ticket
itself costs another 18,000 Swiss francs
plus tax, bringing the total cost of membership
and entrance fee to $71,000.
But that fee just gets you in the door
with the masses at Davos, with entry to
all the general sessions. If you want to
be invited behind the velvet rope to participate
in private sessions among your
industrys peers, you need to step up to
the industry associate level. That
costs $137,000, plus the price of the ticket,
bringing the total to about $156,000.
Of course, most chief executives do
not like going anywhere alone, so they
might ask colleagues along. Well, the
World Economic Forum does not let you
just buy an additional ticket for $19,000.
Instead, you need to upgrade your annual
membership to the industry partner
level. That will set you back about
$263,000, plus the cost of two tickets,
bringing the total to $301,000.
And if you want to take an entourage,
say, five people? Now you are talking
about the strategic partner level. The
price tag: $527,000. (That is just the annual
membership entitling you to as
many as five invitations. Each invitation
still costs $19,000 each, so if five people
come, that is $95,000, making the total
$622,000.) This year, all strategic partners
are required to invite at least one
woman as part of an effort to diversify
the list of those attending.
As part of the strategic partner level,
you get access to the private sessions,
as well as special conference rooms to
hold meetings. And perhaps the biggest
perk of all, your car and driver are given
a sticker allowing door-to-door service.
At the moment, the forum says it is
not accepting applications for strategic
partner unless the company is from
China or India, and it must be one of the
250 largest companies in the world.
In fairness, it is worth pointing out
that membership at all levels gets you
access not only to the meeting in Davos,
but also access to at least a half-dozen
other meetings held around the world.
Membership also gives you access to
the forums various research projects.
All those costs, of course, do not include
the travel-related costs of getting
to Switzerland, schlepping around and
perhaps holding a dinner or a cocktail
party for clients (which is where the real
action is, anyway).
One large investor is renting a fivebedroom
chalet this year just outside
Davos for himself and his staff. The
cost: $140,000 for the week. A car and
driver, which the World Economic Forum
will arrange for you, is about
$10,000 a week for aMercedes S Class.
A first-class fare from New York to
Zurich is running at about $11,000. But a
private plane using NetJets will cost
about $70,000 for a round trip. Helicopter
service from Zurich to Davos?
$3,400 each way. (The forum provides a
free bus service for those worried about
environmental footprints.)
Of course, many companies have dinners
for clients, with dinners on multiple
evenings for some firms.
At the Posthotel, for example, the restaurant
is charging a minimum of $210 a
head. A cocktail party for 60 to 80 people
for just one hour? That costs about
$8,000. Two hours: $16,000.
The bigger parties, like one that will
be given by Google on Friday night for
several hundred people, can run more
than $250,000 for the evening. (In years
past, Google has flown in the band and
bartenders; one year, the company had
an oxygen bar.)
All these embedded costs have helped
make the World Economic Forum a big
business perhaps the biggest conference
organizer in the world. According
to its annual report, it brings in about
$185 million in revenue and spends
nearly all of it, with almost half of its
costs going toward events and the other
half toward personnel.
But all this spending may soon be going
out of vogue.
As one participant, the author David
Rothkopf, recently wrote on his blog,
The entire endeavor is fading for several
reasons, all associated with the inadequacy
of Davos as a networking forum.
He explained, As Steve Case,
founder of AOL, once told me while
standing at the bar in the middle of the
hubbub of the main conference center:
You always feel like you are in the
wrong place in Davos, like there is some
better meeting going on somewhere in
one of the hotels that you really ought to
be at. Like the real Davos is happening
in secret somewhere.
My Take:
Toka kipindi cha Mkapa hadi sasa JK, viongozi hawa wamekuwa na utamaduni wa kuhudhuria sana huu mkutano. Kwangu mimi naona huu mkutano ni wa gharama mno. Ningeomba kama kuna anayejua anisaidie kunifanunulia haya maswali:
1. Je tunaweza kujua jamaa huwa wanalipiwa na nani kwenye huu mkutano?
2. Na kama wanalipiwa na serikali huwa wanaenda na akina nani
3. Je gharama yake kwa ujumla (safari nzima) ni kiasi gani?
4. Na mwisho ni nini manufaa yake kiuchumi kwa Tanzania katika kila mkutano wanaohudhuria?
