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Event Planner Spain Hosts a Familiarisation Trip for MPI As a part of the portal's promotional strategy, Event Planner Spain has just played host to a journalist from Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Jessica States, sub-editor of The Meeting Professional, the well-known international meetings industry magazine, was in Andalusia from 13-20 October 2007.
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FIBES to Host 1st Andalusian Cultural Industries Fair The 1st Andalusian Cultural Industries Fair (FICA) will be held at Seville's Trade Show and Congress Centre from 3-4 December 2007. With an exhibition space of more than 7.200m2, there will be over 100 exhibitors distributed in 10 thematic areas.
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Fourth Edition of the Malaga Car Show to be Held from 10-18 November More than 30 car and industrial vehicle manufacturers, along with approximately 50 supplier industry brands, will be exhibiting at the 4th edition of Malaga's Car Show, which will be held at the city's Trade Show and Congress Centre from 10-18 November. This year's show will take up all of the centre's exhibition space, some 17.000m2.
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Antequera Airport Due to Open in 2009 The Spanish Ministry of Public Works has just received a petition submitted by the developer Grupo Vera to build Antequera Airport (Malaga), and has begun to process the application, with its publication in the Official Gazette (BOE), on considering that it could promote the common good and general welfare.
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Creation of a Forum for Tracking Sewage Disposal on the Costa del Sol On 4 October, a forum was created for tracking sewage disposal on the Costa del Sol. The forum is made up of the province of Malaga's chief associations, including the Costa del Sol Hoteliers' Association, the Business Confederations of Andalusia and Malaga, and the Centres of Tourism Initiatives of Marbella and Torremolinos.
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Sierra Nevada Ski Runs Expected to Open to the Public on 1 December 2007 A number of factors, including the recent rainfall in the province of Granada and the weather conditions this summer and at the beginning of autumn, indicate that Sierra Nevada is in for a good 2007-2008 ski season.
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Barcelo Montecastillo Resort: a five-star international business and sports venue Since being opened in 1992, the Barcelo Montecastillo Resort has hosted a large number of important national and international corporate and sporting events. Located in the countryside around Jerez, next to the Formula 1 racetrack, only six kilometres away from town, this five-star hotel's superb facilities are ideal for holding all kinds of corporate, sporting and private events.
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The Wine Museum of Ronda Chosen to Test a New Signage System Pixeland, an Andalusian technology company, and Bodegas La Sangre de Ronda (Malaga) have reached an agreement in which the Wine Museum of Ronda has been chosen to test Pixeland's latest technology. The first stage of this international pilot project got underway yesterday.
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Picasso – Object and Image A new temporary exhibition is opening today at Malaga's Picasso Museum. Entitled Picasso – Object and Image, the exhibition will be open to the public from 23 October-27 January 2008.
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Hotel Puente Romano to Host the 2nd Health Tourism Seminar Puente Romano, one of the most emblematic hotels on Marbella's "Golden Mile", is to host the 2nd Health Tourism Seminar, organised by Promotur (Andalusian Association of Residential, Sports and Health Tourism Enterprises), from 25-26 October 2007.
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Granada Wants to Be Included in Malaga Travel Agencies' Tourist Itineraries The Granada Tourist Board has organised recently a meeting between the key actors in the province's tourist industry and travel agents and tour operators based in Malaga, with a view to getting them to include the province of Granada in their itineraries.
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2nd World Congress of News Agencies The King and Queen of Spain were the guests of honour at yesterday's opening of the 2nd World Congress of News Agencies, organised by EFE at Estepona's Congress and Trade Show Centre. A hundred and forty new agencies from 110 countries, including Reuters, France Press, Associated Press, United Press, EFE, ITA-TASS, Xinhua News Agency and BBC News, to name but a few, will be participating in the congress until 27 October 2007.
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Malaga's Congress and Trade Fair Centre Participates in NexoBusiness, Spain's Business Travel, Convention, Congress and Incentive Fair Malaga's Congress and Trade Fair Centre, together with Malaga Convention Bureau, participated yesterday in the 5th Business Travel, Convention, Congress and Incentive Fair (NexoBusiness), the national meeting place for the industry's most important players, which was held yesterday in Madrid.
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First .es Domains Containing "ñ" and other Letters are now Available Internet domains ending in ".es" can now be registered with letters belonging to the Spanish, Catalonian, Galician and Basque alphabets, such as the letter "ñ", the cedilla (ç) or the geminated "I" (II) and, and multilingual sign including the diaeresis and accents.
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Expo-Ocio 2007 to be Held in the Autumn for the First Time Expo-Ocio, the largest holiday and leisure trade show in Europe, will be held at Madrid's IFEMA exhibition centre from 24 November-2 December.
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All Set for the 7th Edition of the SME Network Congress The 7th edition of the SME Network Congress (Redepyme) will be held from 13-14 November 2007. This year, the event will take place at the Campo de las Naciones Municipal Congress Centre, located next to IFEMA.
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MPI's Involvement in EIBTM Grows Stronger as the Association's Global Strategy Is Being Implemented Meeting Professionals International (MPI) involvement in EIBTM grows stronger and the association is involved in a number of initiatives at this year's event in Barcelona.
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EIBTM 2007: the World's Leading MICE Trade Show EIBTM 2007 (The Global Meetings and Incentives Exhibition), the world's leading trade show for the meeting, incentive, congress and event industry, is set to have a record number of European exhibitors and a stronger presence from North America, showcasing a broad range of destinations, products and services. Barcelona will be hosting the event for the fourth year running at the Fira venue in Gran Via.
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International Golf Travel Market Celebrates a Decade of Success The 10th edition of the International Golf Travel Market (IGTM), the world's leading golf tourism event, will be held in Cancun, Mexico, from the 3-6 December.
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SIMA Chooses Boston to Showcase Spain in the North American Business Incentive Market After attending the Motivation Show, held in Chicago from 28-29 September, a delegation representing SIMA (Spain Incentives and Meetings Association), in collaboration with Turespaña, Turismo Andaluz and the Costa del Sol Convention Bureau, travelled to Boston to meet with an exclusive group of 22 North American corporate meeting planners and incentive houses, with the aim of showcasing Spain as a business incentive destination.
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Luxury Travel Expo 2007 Market research has indicated 91% of attendees would recommend Luxury Travel Expo to their colleagues and business associates, making it a one-of-a-kind value that should not be missed.
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Travel Advisors Forecasts 12% Growth for MICE Industry According to Javier Muñoz, president of the tourist consortium Travel Advisors Guild (TAG), founder of Radius, one of the world's biggest travel agencies, the MICE Industry (Meetings, Incentives, Congresses and Events) will experience a 12-15% growth in 2008.
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Amex Forecast Generalised Price Rises for Business Travel According to the American Express Global Business Travel Forecast published recently, costs will to continue to rise in 2008 all over the world, especially airfares and hotel rates, which are expected to reach double-digits in some markets across the US, Europe and Asia.
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Think Globally, Drink Locally Alcohol Can Do More for an Event than Inebriate Its Guests.
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Five Ways to Promote Your Hotel Web Site Having a web site, and not promoting it, is like buying a flashy new car and leaving it in your garage; great web site, but few people will ever see it. Some people still think that simply having a web site is enough to drive new business; wrong.
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Make Your FAM Trip More Planner Friendly Upon my return from familiarization (FAM) trips, my mother often tells me how lucky I am to travel so often, see such great cities and stay in wonderful hotels. My friends think I'm a jetsetter. They gush and tell me I've got the greatest job. "It's such a cake walk," they love to tell me.
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Budgeting for a Robust Internet Marketing Strategy in 2007 MA Best Practices Guide to Aid in Developing the 2007 Hotel Online Marketing Budget.
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The Future of Mobile Phones for the Events Industry There are over three billion mobile phone subscribers globally. This is more than the number of flush-toilets and televisions combined! Eighty percent of the world's population is within mobile phone coverage range and this will increase to 90% by 2010. This mobile revolution will transform the way that humans communicate, get information, find our way around, buy things, and the way that event professionals (already a highly mobile lot) will do business.
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