Recently, our Special Interest Tours Division contracted to provide a tour of the UK for a party of Barbershop Singers and their families.... not only did we devise and operate the itinerary, but we also put together and advertised a series of concerts for the group to give, of which the most notable were one in the Market Square at St Andrews, one in the medieval courtyard at Warwick Castle and the final one - most memorable by far - was a joint concert with a Welsh Male Voice Choir which soon turned into quite a heated competition!

Our Event Planning Division was called upon two years ago, when one of our Cruise Line clients asked us to create a truly unique and memorable event for their guests one day during the summer while visiting an off-shore island along the mainland coast of England. The outcome was an event that was so successful that we have repeated it twice since....! A small, old town on the island was turned back in time for the day, and transported back to the Victorian era! The guests arrived to find local residents all appropriately costumed, the town centre occupied only by bicycles, horses and carts, and all the shop windows decorated in the period style! The town councillors (in historic regalia, of course) welcomed the visitors, who then enjoyed visits to the homes of the local folk, who hosted them for a truly individualistic tour of the town. The finale of the event was a traditional afternoon tea together with folkloric entertainment

For one of our Corporate Clients we were recently called upon to create and arrange a Product Launch, involving 600 delegates from all over the world attending an industrial suburban location to view a new type of Fork Lift Truck - featuring a choreographed ballet for the vehicles, followed by an exotic Circus performance!

Our Incentive Division has a wealth of experience creating memorable events, in keeping with the need for the incentive user to be able to provide his winners with ever-more exciting activities.... we have staged full scale Highland Games in Scotland, a scavenger hunt by bicycle and boat in the English countryside, medieval jousts and fayres, elegant dining in stately homes, and murder mysteries in brooding castles. On the more active side, we have taught one clients' winners to drive Formula 1 racing cars, and a different group to drive a railway train! One of our European clients spent a day learning traditional English field sports (such as Archery, Clay Pigeons, Rifle Shooting and Fly Casting). Many have enjoyed Hot Air Balloon rides over various parts of England, and equally many have been able to enjoy exclusive access and hosted visits at various sites. When in Scotland, instead of straightforward Malt Whisky Tastings, we prefer first of all to take our guests to a glass Crystal Factory, where we can arrange for them to try their hand at glass blowing, and then engrave their own whisky tumbler for use at the tasting! From Sterling's perspective, the list of possibilities is almost endless - We never believe that "everything has been done before"!

During the D Day Celebrations in June 1994, we were proud to host a group of 200 American veterans and incentive winners for the day, to witness HM The Queen, with many World Leaders on board the Royal Yacht Britannia, leading a magnificent flotilla of craft large and small from Portsmouth Harbour to the Normandy Beaches. The celebrations included massed military, naval and air force presence, a splendid fly past, concerts and a religious service.... In order to accommodate our party in the best possible way, we had negotiated to take over and refurbish a partly ruined Victorian mid-sea fortress, for use all day, which provided probably the very best viewing position of any that was available, since it lay right in the middle of the sea-way out of Portsmouth Harbour, and the Royal Yacht sailed past, almost at touching distance! Our client was able to give his guests a superbly unique experience matched by no-one else who had attended and crowded along the shoreline that day!