Toute l'actualité, événements: Environment

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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Following an extensive consultation and development process, in the second half of April 2013 ICCA has launched an Association Portal, specifically designed for association executives to assist them in organizing quality meetings.
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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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CO2 offsetting for exhibitors and sustainable catering services from Accente Gastronomie Service GmbH are among some of GCB’s initiatives.The German Convention Bureau (GCB) will make its stand at IMEX 2013 ...
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Google it and you’ll find it. Every day there is more freely accessible information available in the Internet and this is not always desirable.It is essential that the privacy of ...
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This benchmark property in the meeting and event industry is convinced that hotels with a "variable personality", which ensure that the real star of the event is the company or product, offering ...
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Mobile is an important travel planning and hotel distribution channel; a channel that hoteliers must embrace to be successful in 2013. One of the most notable developments this year is that the ...
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In these times of budgetary cuts, layoffs and, in short, the elimination of all that is superfluous, to talk about incentives could practically be taken as a provocation. However, one only has ...
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Self-consumption and advances in efficient energy management will be just some of the topics covered in the 24 talks planned for this year.The forthcoming edition of Genera, the Energy and ...
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The last of a three-part pricing series, this article focuses on alternative models for two important relationship and revenue streams for meetings: membership and sponsorship.Relationships drive profitability when it comes ...
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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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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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How to handle social media during your socially responsible events.Transparency is one of the commandments of social responsibility, enhancing other socially responsible actions such as stakeholder engagement. Social media is ...
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Every business has a way of operating that makes it completely different from any other business in the world. Ever wondered how some companies keep attracting and retaining high performing workers while ...
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For the third year running, Kuoni Destination Management has been voted the "World’s Top DMC" at the World Travel Awards. Hailed as the "Oscars of the travel industry, the World ...
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The first of its kind in the region, the centre’s design includes 3,500sqm of solar panelling.Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC), one of the most environmentally friendly large scale event venues ...
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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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Date of Celebration: 07/11/2012

"Greencities & Sostenibilidad", the 3rd edition of the Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Urban Spaces Show, will feature a conference and panel discussion programme with top keynote speakers.Scheduled to be ...
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What smartphone technology can teach (and remind) us about meeting design.The message being debated about MPI’s future of meetings within groups, surveys and expert interviews is emphatic: don’t use technology ...
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Gamification in the meetings you plan next can help foster confidence with your attendees.What is your organization’s most valuable asset: Employees? Customers? Intellectual property? Leadership? Brand? I believe your most ...
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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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Does it surprise you to hear that a convention center’s WiFi network does not always work? At EXHIBITOR2012 (a trade show for trade show professionals) held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center ...
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Sustainability practices bond employees (and attendees) to a company and drive innovation.Ask David Oakey, a carpet designer at Interface Flor, for his inspiration for 2003’s über-popular (and, now, oft knocked ...
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Unique in Spain, the event will be held at the Malaga Tradeshow and Congress Centre (FYCMA) from 13-14 February 2013, with the support of all the country’s sponsors and the central, regional ...
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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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The savings and revenue stemming from sustainable initiatives total €1,300,000 and the centre’s economic impact on the city since opening is estimated at €750 million.Designed by the architect Norman Foster, ...
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Laura Perez Torres and Angela Ortega Granados, the sponsors of this initiative, have both been living in Malaga for some time now and are communication, sports, and new technology enthusiasts.
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Technology trends present challenges for the industry, but also present opportunities to enhance and extend meetings beyond face value.Technology is the most significant area of change facing the industry. In ...
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Responses to MPI’s survey of 1,100 meeting and hospitality organizations suggest that there are a lot of altruistic people in our industry."I want to do right by the world.""I want ...
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Meeting planners need to track a myriad of details at events (catering orders/guarantees, room/AV sets, staffing, exhibitor requirements, registration numbers, decorator details, entertainment, speaker requirements, transportation details, VIP requirements just to name ...
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Game mechanics enable events to fulfill genuine human needs for connection, happiness, challenge, motivation, community support—and sustainability.Serious fun through the integration of game mechanics can add power, impact and focus ...
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Meeting professionals say that a CSR policy demonstrates credibility and trustworthiness to clients and provides some market differentiation. Nine out of 10 meeting industry businesses actively engage in corporate social ...
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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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Nexus Collections, the world’s leading manufacturer of environmentally friendly conference bags, has seen a dramatic increase in sales of their "green bags" during the course of the last two years, with 250,000 ...
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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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The main, indisputable ingredient of the following recipes is the client. Any self-respecting company, organization or institution should never allow its key asset to go to waste. Therefore, following the indications for ...
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The Tofukuji Zen Buddhist Temple is the latest addition to Kyoto’s MICE offering following the success of hosting its first event. Eight years ago the Science and Technology in Society ...
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There's no denying it: green has arrived. The greening of the meeting and event industry may be nascent, but sustainability is certainly no longer fringe. In fact, integrating sustainability into ...
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The Provincial Government of Barcelona commissioned Talisman Group to design and produce the Forest Fire Prevention Awards ceremony.Among the bids that were presented by some of the industry’s leading companies, ...
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1. Radical customization: companies should be concerned about adapting to everyone; that is, to their client segments, depending on their demand and real needs, as well as adapting fully to market trends. ...
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EIBTM 2011 closed on 1st December having delivered three days of powerful business opportunities and connections.Pre-show expectations were more than met with 64,950 hosted buyer pre-scheduled appointments leading the way ...
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The meeting industry is one step closer to the introduction of the very first green meetings and event standards. On 28 October, the Convention Industry Council (CIC) announced that eight of the ...
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EIBTM is the leading global event for the meetings and events industry, taking place in the award winning business and tourism destination of Barcelona. The event attracts over 14,200 industry professionals for ...
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2012 is quickly approaching and budget-planning season is upon us. Whether you are just starting to think about where you are going to allocate your dollars, or are moving towards finalizing your ...
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Meeting professionals often ask me for recommendations on everything from books to venues to…speakers. After all, I share the stage with dozens of established and upcoming keynotes every year. And ...
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Sydney is officially the world's best festival and event city, according to the international organisation that judges such matters. It's the second year in a row that the Harbour City ...
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Business travelers and meeting professionals who support green hotels and sustainable meetings expect venues to reduce their environmental footprint in ways that do not compromise the guest experience.Programs such as ...
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Last weekend, 1,000 members of EBV's staff were in Andalusia to participate in a huge reforestation project in Punto Umbria (Huelva), where they planted 7,500 trees.Organized by top corporate events ...
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Through the Tenerife Convention Bureau, the island presented its projects before an audience of destination representatives and professionals attending a meeting organized recently by the Spain Convention Bureau.At the meeting ...
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In the framework of the 1st International Congress of Ethics and Tourism, the Iberostar Group has signed WTO's Global Ethics Code for Tourism and ECPAT's Code of Conduct for Protection of Children ...
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