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Meetings on ships are easy to arrange, cost-effective and exciting, and you can find more benefits aboard than ever, says Joyce Landry, CEO and co-founder of cruise events specialist company Landry & Kling.

Soon after Flavie Thevenet first visited Cambodia, she walked past a family eating lunch outside their home in Phnom Penh. It was obvious that they were desperately poor, yet the family insisted she share their food, and she accepted.

With all-in costs of $200 to $300 per person per day, demand for dedicated conference space on P&O’s two latest ships, to begin operating in Australasian waters from late 2015, is already booming.

Hotel operators and events organisers who don’t actively encourage tourists from mainland China could miss out on the opportunity of the century, especially in the luxury and “super-luxury” end of the market.