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Monte Hotels Launches New Website The Andalusian hotel chain has just optimised its website with new content and user-friendly features.
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2008 Edition of Flamenco Programme Launched in Cadiz The 2008 edition of the flamenco music programme Las Rutas Flamencas was launched at La Perla de Cadiz flamenco club on 24 March, with the Ruta de los Cantes Básicos. This year, the cultural programme will include two new itineraries: the Ruta del Fandango de Huelva and the Ruta Minera covering the provinces of Jaen and Almeria.
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MA Nazaries Hotel Hosts Viajes Marsans Convention Last weekend, the MA Nazaries Hotel in Granada hosted Viajes Marsans' convention for agents specialising in group travel sales.
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Sporting Beach to Run Don Carlos Hotel Water Sports Activities Sporting Beach, a water sports service provider for incentive groups and individual tourists, will be running the water sports activities at the Don Carlos Hotel (Marbella) this year.
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Selenza Estepona Hotel and its Thalasso & Spa Awarded Thermaespa 2007 Prize The Selenza Estepona Thalasso & Spa in Estepona has recently received the Thermaespa 2007 Prize in the technical innovation category for the "Siesta Bath", unique in Spain, which the centre offers as a body sense programme, using chromotherapy, aromatherapy and music therapy to achieve the desired therapeutic effect.
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AC Hotels to Manage New Five-Star Hotel in Cordova The chain AC Hotels will manage the new five-star hotel that Prasa is building on the site of the old Melia Hotel. Located close to the Mosque/Cathedral, the 162-room hotel will open on 15 May 2008.
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AEHCOS Participates in UITT 2008 In collaboration with the Malaga Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation, AEHCOS participated in the International Travel & Tourism Exhibition 2008 (UITT), held in Kiev from 26-28 March 2008.
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New Flight Connections between Malaga Airport and Stockholm and Milan 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 between Malaga and Milan-Malpensa yesterday, 14 April.
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Sol Los Fenicios Reopens On 30 April 2008, the Sol Los Fenicios Hotel in La Herradura was reopened. Over the winter months, improvements have been carried out on the outdoor pool and solarium facilities, the rooms repainted and new equipment installed in the kitchens and restaurant.
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Meetings and Incentives at Castle of Monda On 15 April 2008, the director of the Castle of Monda Beatriz Gorospe presented the venue’s new features and its special programme for 2008 before a group of trade professionals from CIT Marbella (Tourism Initiatives Centre).
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Islantilla Congress Centre Hosted 50 Events in 2007 In 2007, the Congress Centre of Islantilla hosted 50 national and international events, attended by more than 14,000 professionals from all over the world. These results show the venue's importance in the Andalusian meetings and event industry and, above all, in that of the province of Huelva, where it plays a key role in the area's socioeconomic development.
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Joaquin Gonzalez Olaizola New Director of Monte Carmelo Hotel The Monte hotel chain has recently appointed Joaquin Gonzalez Olaizola to the post of director of the three-star Monte Carmelo Hotel, located in the neighboured of Los Remedios in Seville.
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Jerez Hotel Hosts Fam Trip for Czech Travel Agents From 3-7 April 2008, representatives of the Czech Republic's Travel Agents Association visited the province of Cadiz.
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Less than a Fortnight to Go until ESNEP 2008 in Malaga Organised by the Society of Incentive and Travel Executives (SITE) and the Malaga Convention Bureau, the 7th edition of the European SITE Networking and Education Programme (ESNEP) is scheduled to be held at Malaga's Trade Show and Congress Centre from 10-13 May 2008.
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Malaga to Host Congress on Quality and Environment in the Tourist Industry Organised by the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce and Malaga City Council, the congress will be held at Malaga's Trade Show and Congress Centre on Wednesday 28 May 2008.
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Congress Tourism Most Dynamic Sector of Spanish Tourist Industry "Congress tourism is the tourist industry sector with the biggest growth and the best placed to increase its turnover," stressed the president of the Spain Convention Bureau (SCB) and Mayor of Malaga Francisco de la Torre during the association's annual conference held in Seville on 4 April 2008. Seventy-five representatives of local organisations belonging to the SCB attended the conference.
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"Channel TUI" Consolidates Position as Only Specialised Ad Platform Geared to Tourist Industry TUI Spain, the country's leading inbound tour operator, has managed to consolidate the position of Channel TUI as the first and only specialised ad platform geared to the tourist industry.
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Lleida Leading Spanish Province for Active Tourism and Adventure Sports With 138 companies employing 1,500 people and attending to needs of approximately 600,000 clients per year, Lleida is currently Spain's leading active tourism and adventure sports destination.
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La Rioja to Apply for UNESCO World Heritage Listing The Department of Tourism and Environment of La Rioja will be requesting UNESCO for a World Heritage listing for "Paisajes del Vino de La Rioja" ("Landscapes of Rioja wine") at the end of May or the beginning of June 2008.
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Stimulating Participation with Interactive Voting Interactive voting systems are incredibly versatile. Some companies use them to make their events more enjoyable – more like a game for involving participants than a mechanism for obtaining feedback. Put there are also companies that regard interactive voting as a means for triggering debates that would otherwise be more difficult to generate.
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Ultramar Express Takes Over First Choice's MICE Business in Spain On 9 April 2008, TUI Spain's corporate event division Ultramar Express Event Management announced that it will be taking over First Choice Meetings & Incentives' MICE business in Spain.
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Alvaro Maestro de Leon New Congress Planning Director of MSB Events Alvaro Maestro de Leon has been recently appointed as the new Congress Planning Director of the Spanish OPC MSB Events. In his new post, he will be responsible for strengthening the company's trade show and congress division.
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Valencia Congress Centre Generates Economic Impact of 67 Million Euros in 2007 The annual accounts and report for 2007, featuring the main activities carried out during the previous financial year, were approved in a meeting of the board of directors on 22 April 2008.
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Spanish Association of Destination Management Companies Holds General Assembly On 16 April 2008, the Spanish Association of Destination Management Companies (AEDMC) held its 8th General Assembly in which the plan of action and budget for 2008 were approved. Main issue raised during the assembly included the promotion of Spain as an international meetings and event destination and obtaining financial aid from the country's different administrations.
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De Boer to Provide Three Press Centres for the UEFA EURO 2008 Europe is getting ready for the UEFA EURO 2008, one of the most important football tournaments in the world, which will be held in Austria and Switzerland from 7-29 July. De Boer’s services have been engaged to provide three temporary press centres in Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck.
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FIEXPO: the Latin American International MICE Trade Show FIEXPO, Latin America's international MICE trade show, is scheduled to be held at the Radisson Victoria Plaza Hotel Convention Centre in Montevideo (Uruguay) from 25-26 June 2008.
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Barcelo Plans to Open Small Chain in Chief Moroccan Cities The Barcelo hotel chain has just signed an agreement with the Moroccan Attijariwafa Bank with the objective of opening five hotels in Morocco's main cities in the next three years. The first of these hotels, the Barcelo Mediterranea Saidia, will be opening this year.
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EventView 2008 Reveals Increasing Importance of Events and Experience Marketing in Brand Communications EventView 2008: North America, the largest and longest-running annual survey of corporate sales and marketing executives, reveals that events generate the highest ROI of any marketing channel.
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2008 S. Pellegrino's World's 50 Best Restaurants Unveiled at a special event at the Freemason's Hall in London on 21 April, which was attended by some of the world’s greatest chefs and restaurateurs, the 2008 list represents the collation of 3,140 votes from the Academy judges from all over the world.
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Air Fair De Boer's Most Important project to Date De Boer has already begun construction work on the temporary venue for the Farnborough International Air Show 2008, the company's most important project to date. Since this year's edition of the fair will be marking its 60 anniversary, the organisers are expecting to break the show's record of 270,000 visitors registered in 2006.
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What the Heck is Hotel Web Site Optimization, Anyway? – A Hotel Marketer’s Guide to WSO With all the talk about search engine optimization, web site optimization often gets left off the radar for many hoteliers. Yet, WSO is the necessary first-step to building and marketing a functional hotel web site.
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Podcasting Basics for Meeting Professionals Podcasting is a way for event marketers and associations to get messages out to new audiences, it is a way to build traffic to a website, and it can be used as a way to sell your venues at a small fraction of the cost of printing and distributing CDs/DVDs. And the good news is that they can be done very inexpensively.
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Web 2.0 for Event Marketers Although Facebook and MySpace get all the press, hundreds of smart marketers and leading brands are quietly putting networking technologies to work to grow their own businesses. Look no further than the explosive growth of these sites to understand their potential for connecting people in ways never before available.
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Alexa Changes its Ranking System Alexa, one of the world's most popular ranking systems, has just modified the algorithm it uses to rank websites. As a result, the ranking of large number of sites has taken a nosedive, while others have benefited from the change.
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Measuring Results from Marketing Spend in Hospitality: Using Metrics and Analytics for Quantifiable Results Marketing is all about results. Unlike offline marketing, we can track and analyze ROIs from our online marketing campaign results quickly and accurately over the Internet.
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