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FIBES Hosts Informal Meeting of EU Ministers for Energy and Environment This year, Seville Conference and Exhibition Centre (FIBES) has served once again as the venue for European Union meetings, this time hosting the Informal Meeting of European Union Ministers for Energy and Environment from 14-16 January, on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.
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Azul Soluciones Integrales Bases Philosophy on Quality Service On 26 January, Azul Soluciones Integrales was awarded the Tourist Destination Integral Quality System certification by Mr Elias Bendodo, head of Malaga City Council tourist department.
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Meninas Hotel Voted Best Property in Madrid and Eighth Best in Spain by Tripadvisor European Travel Community In the 8th edition of the annual Travellers' Choice Awards, the four-star Meninas Hotel, located in the heart of the Austrias borough of Madrid, was voted the best property in Madrid and the 8th best in Spain by TripAdvisor's European Travel Community.
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Olympic Congress Centre to Host 14th Edition of MITM The 14th edition of the MITM Euromed, Meetings and Incentive Travel Market will be held at the Olympic Congress Centre, in Lloret de Mar (Costa Brava), from 9-11 June 2010. The event will last one and a half days.
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Second Edition of Natura Malaga to Be Held at FYCMA in May Malaga's Tradeshow and Congress Centre (FYCMA) will be hosting Natura Malaga, the only health and sustainable development fair of its kind in Andalusia, from 14-16 May.
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CCIB Hosts Networkers at Cisco Live! For Third Year Running The International Convention Centre of Barcelona (CCIB) has recently hosted one of the main annual conventions organized by technology multinational Cisco for the EMEA market. From 25-28 January, for the third year running CCIB hosted Networkers at Cisco Live, one of the world's leading telecommunications events, which this year attracted in the region of 4.000 trade professionals.
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Imagination and Creativity Both Keys for Companies with Limited Budgets SMEs and freelancers should use different marketing tools than those employed by large corporations so as to be able to compete in an increasingly more agressive and sophisticated marketplace.
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HACE Group to Manage Hotel Puerto Sherry The HACE hotel group has just announced that it will be taking over the management of the newly reopened Puerto Sherry Hotel next March.
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AV Medios Stages 3D Film Screening for Vodafone and Blackberry in Centre of Madrid After the recent success of the film Avatar, the same use of 3D projection technology has now been applied to advertising. Vodafone and BlackBerry’s recent campaign, called "Inside", has used the 3D projection technology outdoors, a format proving to be both attractive and cheap.
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Ultramar Event Management and Salou Tourist Board Renew Agreement to Promote Town as MICE Destination Ultramar Event Management, TUI Spain's MICE division, has renewed the agreement signed last year with the Salou Tourist Board aimed at promoting the town as a MICE destination. With this renovation, Salou will continue to feature as one of the top destinations in Ultramar Event Management's Convention Express portfolio.
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Edyma Collaborates in RTVA 11th El Publico Award Ceremony On the occasion of 11th edition of RTVA's El Publico Awards held at Seville's Teatro Central, Canal Sur commissioned Edyma to supply and install a 7mm Barco LED screen measuring 12m2.
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Norwegian Skrei at Casario Ananda Skrei, cod, Gadus Morhua, the most prized by the most demanding palates, the most refined of wild fish; in short, Norwegian skrei is now available at the restaurant Caserio Ananda, located in the El Colmenar Station, Cortes de la Frontera.
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Spanish Association of Destination Management Companies Holds 10th General Meeting in Barcelona In the midst of a slump in business tourism demand, representatives of the top 25 destination management companies in Spain, belonging to the association SpainDMCs, met at the newly opened W Barcelona Hotel on 11 February.
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MalagaCon: and UMA Team Up to Attract Business Tourism On 17 February, Salvador Pendon, chairman of the Costa del Sol Tourist Office, and Antonio Garcia del Valle, chairman of the tourism commission of Malaga Chamber of Commerce, together with Elias Bendodo, head of the tourism department of Malaga City Council, and the Chancellor of Malaga University, Adelaida de la Calle, presented the new phase of the "MalagaCon: Congresos Contigo" campaign in a press conference held at the Chancellor's Building.
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Anykey Launches Anykey Onroad As regards means of transport, coach travel falls into a specific category due to its unique characteristics, multiple applications, uses and services. For this reason, Anykey has adapted audience polling system technology to the audiovisual system installed in coaches.
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Event1001.com Celebrates First Anniversary with 15,000 Members Founded in March 2009 by two experienced European event planners who were having problems finding service providers and venues for their events abroad, the international event and meeting portal Event1001.com has just celebrated its first anniversary with over 15,000 members.
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Culinary Trends in 2010 Among the culinary trends in 2010, a year marked by a difficult economy and a greater awareness as regards the environment, "eco-friendly cooking", a spirit of the age that borrows from slow food, prepared with local organic products, is currently all the rage.
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Incentive Market About to Make Comeback A new survey suggests companies will be increasingly likely to use merchandise and incentive programs in 2010, largely because of expanding budgets and a willingness to spend recently untapped funds. Data from the New York-based Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) shows 32% of corporate professionals expect an uptick in incentive programs this year, while 34% anticipate unchanged spending.
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Privacy Concerns of Full Body Scanners a Low Priority for Business Travelers Business travelers have many other priorities – on-time travel, safe transport of luggage, shorter screening times, etc. So it's more likely that privacy concerns about body scan images at airport security would fall lower on the wish list.
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GIBTM Attracts Top Destinations and Hotels With less than two months before the opening of the fourth GIBTM in Abu Dhabi on 29 March, the event has recently confirmed the participation of some of the world's most important destinations and venues.
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MCI Group selects MPI as preferred training provider MCI Group – global leader in association event and communications management – has selected Meeting Professionals International (MPI) as their preferred education content and training provider for the MCI Institute.
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International Business Travel Destinations to Watch in 2010 Perhaps the best predictor of destinations to watch for international business travel is what's happening in the large association market because their meetings are typically scheduled several years out.
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Over 250 Exhibitors at MEEDEX 2010 This year's edition of Meedex – the International Rendez-Vous of the French Meeting Industry – scheduled to be held from 24-25 March at Paris' Pavilion Dauphine, will have over 250 exhibitors from more than 30 countries.
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Savvy Hoteliers To Steal A Bigger Share of The Market in 2010 – Start with the Basics, Add A Pinch of Grit, and A Whole Bunch of Common-Sense The economy will slowly improve in 2010, but just getting your fair share of business will not be nearly enough. Less business in the marketplace means your fair share is less, too. Hotels need a bigger piece of the smaller economic pie to dominate in the marketplace.
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The Next Social Media Wave: Using Google Wave for Events 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, text messaging, Wiki documents, blogs, tweets and photo-sharing sites to create an online "hosted conversation", or a "wave".
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Success Now! – Master these skills to excel in the new "Business 2010" reality While all of these qualities, based on the latest FutureWatch 2010 findings, may well be valuable for professionals in myriad industries, they are of crucial importance to those seeking success with meetings and events in this year’s cautiously optimistic, yet still unproven economy.
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COP15 Agencies Plan Green Meeting Protocol The COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen this winter led to an international accord that critics say fell arguably short of expectations.
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