活动与新闻: Event

Technology changes in the past three decades have been astonishing for both the meetings industry and for society in general. To see how far we have come, I felt it would be ...
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1. More free or low cost apps for events and trade shows"Information technologies of all types are doubling in capability every year" – Ray Kurzweil, Technology Pioneer and FuturistAnother ...
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The three hour tarmac delay rule for U.S. airlines goes into effect April 29, but business travelers and other airline passengers should expect continued delays – sometimes long delays – for one ...
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Showlight, a Spanish-based company specializing in crystal chandelier rental for corporate and private events requiring an exclusive ambience, is the leader in Europe as regards stock and variety. The company also owns ...
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The Seville-based event production company Eventisimo was recently commissioned to organise and stage the Madrid fixture of the Urban Mountain Bike Free Riding Series, sponsored by Nissan on the occasion of the ...
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Commissioned to organize a large number of events, including weddings, parties, openings, and art exhibitions, the summer months have certainly been a hectic time for Beatrice Jullien and her Torremolinos-based event company ...
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Are budget woes leaving something to be desired with your meetings lately? Wish you could serve more than pretzels and domestic beer at your cocktail party? Maybe some of your meetings have ...
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Would you like an almost free means of digital lead exchange for your meetings? Or inexpensive electronic ticketing using mobile phones? Or a means of providing paragraphs of information and/or web links ...
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This article offers a summary of how to use the Internet to promote meetings and events.General Site Construction

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Date of Celebration: 15/10/2010

With an exhibition area of 5,500sqm, distributed on two floors, some of the most important gay-friendly companies will be exhibiting at Expo Gays, scheduled to be held at the Torremolinos Congress Centre ...
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The department of human resources of the publishing house SM held an event for all its Spanish employees last November.To hold a seminar for hundreds of people, in which the ...
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Ultramar Event Management, a company with over 50 years of experience in providing MICE services, has just conducted a qualitative survey among its main European clients (travel agencies specializing in business tourism, ...
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Date of Celebration: 03/04/2008

Malaga’s Trade Show and Congress Centre will be hosting the EPC Technology Forum next Thursday, 3 April. Nearly 200 national and international trade professionals and experts in EPC/RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – ...
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The AXE Boat set sail from Barcelona’s Port Vell Marina on 14 July, calling in at Mallorca, Ibiza, Valencia and Alicante before berthing at Malaga on 23 July.At each port ...
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The unique quality of Web 2.0 social media is that it consists of user-generated content. Social media users post comments directly on the Internet and all they need is access to a ...
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Date of Celebration: 04/12/2010

From 4-8 December, the Malaga Tradeshow and Congress Centre (FYCMA) will be hosting Expo Hispa-Maroc, with a large number of exhibitors from Morocco’s chief cities showcasing all types of typical products.
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Meetings and tradeshow technology continues to advance with technology products becoming better, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is bubbling with new options. Here are some of the major technology trends to ...
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Generating quality sales leads is an essential ingredient in the success of any business, but in a competitive marketplace that has become tougher than ever, now you need to step up the ...
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What will happen to traditional and online distribution channels in hospitality in the next few years? How will the direct web channel outpace competitors and third-party intermediaries? With online travel growing, how ...
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After a year replete with success, El Porton del Duque, the restaurant belonging to New Garamond – one of Madrid’s leading event venues – has just opened La Terraza, an outdoor venue ...
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Google Wave is a free, realtime, online collaboration platform, now in beta distribution (by invitation only), to be released to the general public sometime this year. It combines elements of e-mail, chat, ...
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McKinsey and Co. reports that while 75 percent of all large U.S. grocery store chains offer loyalty programs, 70 percent of shoppers still seek alternatives. How loyal are your customers? Despite an ...
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Gone are the days where a college education will set you for life – much of what college students learn today at the start of their education is obsolete by the time ...
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You may be fantastic at planning meetings and events or have an excellent product or service, but if no one knows about your event, product or service how will you be successful?
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Algeciras was chosen as the venue for the 2nd edition of INNOVIA, which was held on 22 November. The aim of this initiative, sponsored by the Regional Department of Innovation, Science and ...
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“Will social media burn conferences to the ground?” asked social media maven Christopher Penn in late June. On his Web site, he argued that people don’t need to travel to a conference ...
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Web conferencing and webinars provide low-cost ways of exchanging information to geographically separated attendees – without the hassles and costs of travel.Sure, these tools won’t replace face-to-face meetings in their ...
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Running an event management company entails much more than managing logistics and executing flawless events. You must partner with clients to learn about their businesses. Since the bursting of the tech bubble ...
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It is getting easier being green. The move to make meetings more environmentally-friendly is finally taking hold and meeting professionals are working together to reduce, recycle, and reuse to dramatically improve the ...
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1. The Internet: The Ultimate Survival Tool for Hoteliers in 2009The Travel Industry Association’s (TIA) latest survey predicts a drop of at least 1.3% in overall leisure travel in 2009. Corporate ...
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The 1st edition of the International Conference of Universal Design is scheduled to be held at Malaga's Tradeshow and Congress Centre (FYCMA) from 30 September-2 October 2009.Organized by Malaga City ...
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In 2000, I made the following prediction at the CIC Forum in Washington DC: "Mobile phones will morph into widgets (wireless internet devices for geo-positioning, ecommerce and telecommunication)."I went on ...
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This megalist of Event Planning online tools appeared in my Feb/Mar Connections column in Event Solutions Magazine.Planners are being challenged to work faster, harder and more efficiently. The past few ...
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EIBTM’s Worldwide Technology Watch (WWTW) is the meetings industry’s most significant technology award. The winner and four finalists for WWTW 2008 were recently selected from 39 applications. These companies highlight several paths ...
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With the aim of welcoming in the summer, Es.cultura (Eventos + Comunicación), recently organized a 70s party, in which flowers, rainbows and flared trousers added a touch of colour to the gardens ...
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There has been a torrent of articles and webinars extolling the virtues of social media for hotels. Social media is certainly applicable for hotel franchise brand-building, but this writer is still unconvinced ...
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In his book, Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert offered a great thought about predicting the future. “Just as we tend to treat the details of future events that we do ...
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The rate of technology change is increasing. Meetings and tradeshow technology continues to advance with technology products becoming better, cheaper and easier to use. Innovation is bubbling with new options. Here are ...
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A video revolution, the explosion of new TV and video options, is sweeping society and will have a substantial impact on meetings and events. Here are some of the ways we will ...
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The recession's got a track record – a fact that convention centers throughout the world just might want to embrace. “This isn’t the first recession we’ve dealt with, [so] we ...
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Web 2.0 is changing meetings marketing and management with numerous benefits for meeting planners, exhibitors and attendees. It is an imprecise term, however, covering a wide range of technologies that are part ...
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Held at Barcelona’s Hotel AC Diplomatic, the seminar was given by security expert and ex chief of Barcelona’s Fire Brigade Jordi Murta, and Alex Arno and Jacobo Garcia, insurance brokerage experts at ...
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Norwegian Airlines began to offer a new flight connection between Malaga and Stockholm at the beginning of April 2008. Furthermore, the low-cost airline Volareweb, belonging to the Alitalia group, began to fly ...
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The organizers of the two concerts Madonna will be giving in Spain have commissioned the Fersa Group to supply ecological portable loos for the general public. Both in Valencia and Seville, the ...
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Back in September 2001, HeBS presented an article titled “Wireless in Travel and Hospitality: Hype or Necessity?” Today, just as in 2001, the media hype on anything mobile has not eased ...
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As the use of mobile event apps continues to explode, there is an increasing demand by attendees to have easy-access, barrier-free and, hopefully, cost-free Wi-Fi in the meeting space and in sleeping ...
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The world economic slowdown and financial woes dominate the news. As businesses and associations contract, meeting planners who still have jobs are being asked to do more than they did in the ...
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There’s a video camera projecting my image onto a large screen or two on either side of the stage at nearly every talk I give these days. The main reason for the ...
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In June 2008, HeBS presented an article titled Getting Back to the Basics: The Hotelier’s Internet Marketing Action Plan for a Difficult Economy. A year later, we would like ...
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Events Privilege, a Malaga-based company specialising in events, incentives and outdoor activities, has recently organised the annual convention of the Concesium Group. The theme chosen for the event was the Battle of ...
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