Where the travel trade meets, celebrates, and does business.
Industry awards, roadshows and FAM trips, sales conferences, MICE programmes, supplier showcases. The businesses that bring the travel trade together need websites that make their events easy to enter, easy to attend, and impossible to forget.
We turn signature events into standing-room-only nights.
Travel-industry events live or die on attendance, sponsorship, and the conversation in the room. Awards entries close in eight weeks. The roadshow opens for registration in three. The annual sales conference is the only chance the senior team gets in person all year. Your website has to do the heavy lifting on registration, sponsor recognition, capacity management and that intangible thing — the sense that this is the event you cannot skip.
Charnette Labs builds events websites that work the way travel-trade events actually work. Categorised award entries with judging logic. Vetted-attendee portals. Sponsor-tier recognition that reads as recognition rather than logo soup. Capacity-aware ticketing. Post-event content that earns its keep until the next cycle opens.
Awards Programmes
Industry awards from regional to global — entry forms, judging dashboards, finalist galleries, and the awards-night ticketing that makes the event commercially viable.
FAM Trips & Roadshows
Multi-day hosted trips and multi-city roadshows — open registration for the evening workshops, a private vetted-attendee portal for the trip itself, day-by-day itineraries, supplier slots, and the follow-up that earns the next booking.
MICE & Sales Conferences
Incentive specialists, conference organisers and supplier-showcase events — sites that capture corporate RFPs without losing momentum, and that handle the logistics around delegate management.
This is what we mean by an event platform.
These are real screens from the companion app behind The Annual Africa Tourism Evening — a closed, hosted evening for the UK luxury Africa tourism community that Graeme created and we run. There was no client to answer to, so the standard was ours to set: the software has to disappear on the night. These surfaces transfer to an awards programme, a multi-city roadshow, a multi-day FAM trip or a sales conference — the machinery is the same, the occasion changes.
Nothing here is a mockup or a concept slide. It is on the App Store and Google Play, it ran a real evening, and when a badge prints wrong we are the ones standing at the desk.
Build this for your event →Where the trade gathers, business gets done.
Functions and events are where the travel trade does much of its real business — awards dinners, roadshow evenings, hosted buyer receptions, industry celebrations. Behind each one sits a surprising amount of practical machinery: invitations, registration, guest management, communication before and during, and a presence online that matches the occasion. Done on generic tools, it becomes a scramble of spreadsheets and chased RSVPs; done right, it runs quietly and reflects well on the host.
We build websites and technology for travel trade functions and events that handle the machinery gracefully: event sites that match the occasion, registration and guest management that actually work, and communication tools that keep everyone informed before and during. We understand the trade events world from the inside — we run our own hosted trade evening — so we build for how these gatherings really operate.
Event sites that fit the occasion
An awards dinner and a hosted buyer evening carry a tone, and the site should match it. We build event presences that reflect the occasion and give guests everything they need in one clear place.
Registration that works
Invitations, RSVPs, guest lists, dietary and seating detail — event logistics are fiddly. We build registration and guest management that handle it cleanly, so the host is not chasing spreadsheets the week before.
Built by trade event hosts
We run our own hosted trade evening, so we know the practical realities of bringing the travel trade together. That hands-on experience shapes the tools we build for functions and events.
What do you build for a trade event?
Event websites that match the occasion, registration and guest management that work, and communication tools to keep guests informed before and during. Everything the practical machinery of an event needs, handled gracefully.
Can you handle invitations and registration?
Yes. We build registration, RSVP and guest-management tools that handle the fiddly detail — guest lists, dietary needs, seating — so the host runs the event rather than chasing spreadsheets.
Do you understand trade events?
We run our own hosted travel trade evening, so the realities of bringing the trade together are familiar. That hands-on experience shapes the tools we build for functions and events.
What kinds of businesses fall under functions and events?
Functions and events covers businesses that bring the travel trade together — corporate hospitality firms running awards programmes (global awards programmes, regional industry awards and specialist tourism awards), MICE specialists selling meetings and incentives into corporate clients, function venues that focus on the travel-trade market, FAM trip and roadshow organisers, and event-management firms putting on sales conferences, supplier showcases and roadshows for tour operators and DMCs.
Do you build websites for awards programmes?
Yes — awards programmes are core work for Charnette Labs. Awards websites have specific requirements — categorised entry forms with judging logic, sponsor recognition, voting flows where applicable, finalist galleries, and a clear ticketing and table-sales path for the awards night itself. We build the full stack including the post-event recap and the next year's open-call rollover.
Can you build sites for MICE and incentive specialists?
Yes. MICE websites need to surface destination expertise, sample programmes, sustainability and DEI credentials, and structured RFP-capture flows that gather enough detail to brief a quote without losing the lead. We build sites for incentive houses selling Africa, Asia, Europe and the Indian Ocean to corporate buyers.
What about function venue websites?
Function venue websites — whether attached to a hotel, lodge or standalone — need clean capacity charts, configuration galleries (banquet, theatre, classroom, U-shape), AV and catering specifications, and a structured enquiry flow that asks the right qualifying questions before the venue team picks up the phone.
Do you work with FAM trip and roadshow organisers?
Yes. A FAM trip — a familiarisation trip, or educational — is a multi-day hosted visit to the destination for agents, operators and media. A roadshow takes suppliers to the trade instead, across several cities, usually as a workshop and an evening function in each. Both run on the same rhythm: an open registration or nomination phase, a private vetted-attendee portal, a day-by-day itinerary, supplier presentation slots, and a follow-up phase with content for attendees to take home. We build the full registration-to-recap experience for both.
How much does a functions and events website cost?
A standard build (one website and one app, for iOS and Android) starts from GBP 3,000 + VAT. Enhancing a site you already have is the same price as building a new one. Hosting and care is from GBP 99 + VAT a month. Terms, conditions and usage limits apply. Until 31 December 2026, new business clients who take 12 months’ hosting and care, paid upfront, pay no build fee for one website and one app, for iOS and Android (limited to the first 25 clients or 31 December 2026, whichever comes first; a case study and testimonial are part of the offer). See the offer. Larger builds — trade portals, reservation integrations, custom platforms — are scoped after a discovery conversation. We bill in GBP, EUR, USD or ZAR; non-sterling amounts convert at the exchange rate on the day of invoice.
Trade show websites · Tourism associations · Hotel websites · Industry services websites · Case study: The Annual Africa Tourism Evening
An events website that fills the room.
From an industry awards programme to a vetted, invitation-only roadshow evening — we build the registration, the ticketing and the recognition surfaces that travel-trade events run on.
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