News Events: Interactive

Since its launch in early 2010, Pinterest has experienced tremendous growth. Now with over 30 million unique monthly visitors, the internet’s virtual pin board has become the third largest social networking site ...
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This year, the hospitality industry is in for a lot of pain. OTA dependency continues to plague the hospitality industry, despite gains in the past three years and positive trends in all ...
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"Exclusively Corporate @ IMEX" uses the Association Day as its model to allow corporate buyers to attend the award-winning trade show whilst also taking part in expertly facilitated education and networking.
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The property website continues to be the hotelier’s most important distribution and marketing channel. The main goal of any hotel website is to turn lookers into bookers. A number of factors ...
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The show, scheduled to be held at Messe Frankfurt from 21-23 May 2013, will feature eight education tracks.Eight education tracks, which include "industry trends", "personal development" and "sustainability", define IMEX ...
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With 87% of online users reporting that Social Media recommendations impact hotel choice, it is no secret that social media influences the travel planning process. With the launch of Facebook Graph Search, ...
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The 15th edition of the event is scheduled to be held at the Attic restaurant in Barcelona on 3 April 2013.Organized by English Metas and Dantex Group, with the special ...
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This solution allows event attendees to view the presentations of keynote speakers and send them comments via an integrated chat system.PowerVote has just launched its new app for tablet and ...
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It seems that the business travel, meetings and events industry continues to evolve each year, and 2013 will likely reflect some significant shifts that will influence where, when and how we meet ...
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From the beginning of December 2012 until the end of January, the new Golf was on show at Terminal 1 of Barcelona Airport.On the request of Volkswagen, SONO was commissioned ...
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A mobile app for your event (trade show, convention, meeting, festival, etc) can be useful, valuable, and fun for attendees. It can provide you with a source of revenue and sponsorships. ...
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Over the past few years hoteliers have been advised repeatedly to embrace the mobile channel. Industry experts have projected staggering growth rates in leisure and unmanaged business travel bookings via the ...
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Cultourfair – the International Cultural Tourism Fair – will take place in Guadalajara (Mexico) from 2-4 October.Those interested can now register for the 5th edition of Cultourfair, the International Cultural ...
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As we find ourselves in a new year full of possibilities, now is a good time to reflect on events that impacted our industry in 2012 and how you should plan your ...
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A hybrid meeting approach helped eBay—the company that brings strangers worldwide together to buy and sell goods online—bring its own European team together.This case study is one piece of MPI’s ...
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Internet video is seeing unprecedented growth for communication and marketing. This paper will cover the impact of this growth for promoting and extending the life of events with examples and ideas for ...
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Marketers love exclaiming "SEO is dead!" and heralding the next big thing that will save your website – social media, retargeting, mobile, tablets, you name it. However, regardless of what some in ...
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These are exciting times. The rate of technology change is accelerating with thousands of ideas, apps and innovations bubbling up to help meeting planners, exhibitors, venues and attendees to do their jobs ...
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If new technology is implemented correctly, it could go a long way in allowing your delegates more options to connect with one another.I don’t usually like technology interfering with live ...
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The free app allows users to stay abreast of all the latest news about the San Sebastian congress centre, as well as its cultural and corporate event agenda.The app, which ...
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In an ever-increasing world of user reviews, TripAdvisor has become a mainstay in the research phase of travel purchases. With over 54 million monthly visitors and more than 75 million reviews, it ...
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ICCA only endorses trade shows that are of genuinely global stature in terms of both exhibitors and buyers.Following the success of IMEX America’s second edition in Las Vegas, the ICCA ...
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BOBtv from bXb Online, a global online event platform designed specifically for events and associations, has been awarded this year’s EIBTM Technology Watch for its innovation and use of technology to support ...
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It’s no surprise that attendees are using the iPad more than ever at conferences and meetings. Apple sold 11.8 million iPads during the first quarter of 2012, according to apple.com. The device ...
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Interview with Max Starkov, President & CEO, HeBS Digital, on the hot topic of the hotel community manager and the emergence of this new role as a rapidly growing profession.Masha ...
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The guitar was installed in the boulevard Gran Capitan, right in the city centre.On the occasion of the 32nd Guitar Festival of Cordova, Events Privilege designed a number of stunts ...
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Having just passed the mid-year mark, now is a good time to reflect on how events in 2012 have made a significant impact on hoteliers and how they should plan their digital ...
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An innovative online interactive 3D event allows countries to showcase their best destinations to the world.In the first quarter 2014, the world will see the largest-ever gathering of countries, travel-related ...
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Earlier this month I presented at EyeForTravel’s Online Marketing Strategies for Travel 2012 Conference in Miami. The session, titled "Best Practices for Mobile Strategies in 2012 and Beyond," focused on the expanding ...
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EventMobi is a mobile platform that has become the standard app in the meetings and event industry in countries such as Canada, USA and the UK.Marketed in Spain by Orquídea ...
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Pinterest is a niche social network based on virtual pin boards. By January 2012, the site received 11.5 million unique visitors. With Pinterest rapidly becoming one of the most popular social media ...
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Thanks to a group of audacious clients that put their trust in new technologies, the first event in Spain featuring interactive voting via smartphones was held in Madrid on 14 February 2012.
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Debating between political candidates is normal at election times. What is unusual, though, is that the candidates are assessed and given scores in real time by the public… at least until now.
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PowerVote will be participating in the coming edition of ExpoManagement 2012, scheduled to be held in Madrid from 23-24 May.As an essential player in the revitalization of events and meetings, ...
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As in previous years, Alcatel One Touch commissioned Contemporanea Eventi to design, build and assemble its stands at the World Mobile Congress 2012.For Contemporanea Eventi, to build a series of ...
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The session, moderated by Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA, will take place on the morning of 22 May during IMEX.Are the days of marketing a destination in traditional tourism terms ...
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Exploramas has again surprised the event industry by using Apple’s iPads to inject more dynamism into the experiences it designs for its clients.Imagine for a moment that those attending a ...
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In 2012, a time focused on new distribution channels, social, local, mobile, and the ever-changing digital marketplace, hoteliers must still remember that the tried and trusted search engines are still the key ...
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These systems are especially designed for events with 3D environments or large facilities requiring a spectacular visual impact.With the aim of broadening its artistic and technical production services for events, ...
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In March, the two companies staged VINOSPHERA, a new wine tasting experience organized for a private client.VINOSPHERA is a new interactive show concept – which can be staged during a ...
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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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A new study reveals the realities of meetings going virtual, from the variety of formats and sourcing to measurement and comparisons to face to face.The role of virtual meetings is ...
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In 2012, hoteliers face more challenges than ever. From resolving to concentrate on "SoLoMo" (social, local, mobile marketing), to navigating "new" distribution channels, to implementing a Google+ strategy, to improving local search ...
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PowerVote has designed a new iPad app for the Vinci Group. This new app puts PowerVote at the forefront of cutting-edge interactive audience polling technology.The solution was developed by PoweVote ...
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The company has developed puzzle-type games, as well as map navigation-based, image association and photo album apps.It is a hybrid system, somewhere between a video game console and a traditional ...
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In October 2011, 650 people from 13 cities participated in the Satelital Workshop, organized by the Mexican Association of Psychiatry, thanks to satellite communication technology.Specialists in psychiatry and neurology participating ...
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Last year the economy remained in "recovery mode," allowing the industry to focus its efforts more on marketing to the travel consumer and less on scaling back budgets for the first time ...
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Hertz, the world’s largest general use car rental brand, won Travel Weekly’s 9th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Domestic and Best International Car Rental Company, for the 9th consecutive and 8th ...
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Leadership, design, innovation, sustainability and well-being are the watchwords of the Roca identity, and this is what this new gallery transmits to its visitors.Officially opened on 13 October, the Roca ...
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The Arola, W Paris-Opéra’s signature cuisine restaurant and Sergi Arola first venture in France, proposes an original and daring culinary concept: the "Pica Pica."Housed in an elegant Haussmannian building constructed ...
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