The Singapore Tourism Board has been running the ‘2009 Reasons to meet in Singapore’ campaign for some time now. Due to the fact that it is selling a great product (Singapore!), it has had great success over the period. The campaign has included various Singapore hotel discounts, packages and promotions for function rooms in Singapore and meeting spaces.

There have been business vouchers in the areas of dining, accommodation, IT and Technology, shopping, wellness and attractions. The MICE events calendar set up by the Tourism Board is consistently impressive, with events over just one month including Games Convention Asia 2009, the 1st Asian Advertising Festival, the Singapore Human Capital Summit, and Agriculture Asia 2009.

2009 concrete reasons might be a stretch, but if any of the huge range of events, promotions, discounts and base benefits of meeting in Singapore has convinced you, we look at the best hotel rooms in Singapore to base yourself in.

Novotel Clarke Quay is one of the best known; best located and best value hotels in Singapore for business travelers. In the heart of Clarke Quay and with waterfront views that make for easy concentration, Novotel Clarke Quay is a business hotel at heart.

Rooms here have all the necessary commercial facilities, including international direct dial phones, electronic safes and broadband internet access. Grab an executive room or one on the Premier Floor and you’ll also get an executive writing desk, iron and ironing board to look your best for meetings, and a huge flat screen TV.

Premier floor Singapore hotel rooms will find most of their benefits in the Premier Lounge, where guest relations staff have conversational competency in several languages, there is free Wifi access and unlimited broadband access, and all-day free coffee and tea. People working over the dinner hours of 6pm-8pm get a free cocktail and snacks to help them through.

Meetings in Singapore are incredibly easy with Novotel Clarke Quay’s dedication to business guests. The Singapore business hotel has a dedicated meeting planner for larger events, and even individual business guests staying on the Premier floor have free access to the boardroom for a 3-hour period.

Larger events have access to a range of six different meeting rooms catering for up to 600 people. There is currently a free dinner promotion going, where guests booking rooms and a meeting can get dinner on the house at one of Novotel Clarke Quay’s internationally acclaimed restaurants.

Catering more to the luxury end of the business market is the Fairmont Hotel in Singapore. Facilities here are traditional and extensive – there are 16 different restaurants and bars all on site, as well as a huge 70,000 feet of prime meeting space. You can visibly see the costs for these being absorbed into your room bill, but for those who want their function rooms in Singapore to really impress their clients, and need the benefit of extra facilities like wellness and spa services at their Singapore accommodation.

At the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the Fairmont Singapore hotel is the G Hotel. G Hotel is also business friendly, but far and away towards the budget end of the business hotel spectrum.

The location is perfect for meetings in Singapore, right in the heart of Chinatown; however you will definitely need to look outside your hotel for the actual boardroom space. When you have finished, however, G Hotel does offer secretarial services, as well as other standard business services within their rooms like IDD phones and safe deposit boxes.