活动与新闻: Digital

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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A MICE industry benchmark, the property lists 10 key factors influencing the choice of a meeting hotel; a list of basic must-haves which nowadays includes cutting-edge technology.A benchmark property in ...
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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 Spanish Tourist Office in Chicago has just launched the new edition of its free digital magazine featuring on Seville.Available at www.meetinspainmagazine.com, the magazine is mainly geared to event planners, ...
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GenieConnect announced yesterday the addition of the Blackberry native app to their portfolio of digital event solutions. The Blackberry 10 Event App has been specifically designed to support GenieConnect’s clients in enabling ...
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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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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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The centre has once again generated a cash surplus, even exceeding initial targets.In 2012, Kursaal’s activities yet again generated an operating cash surplus (€363,701), meaning the venue continues to be ...
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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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In 2012, the Spanish and Moroccan meeting and event portal’s "News and events" section clocked up 2,881,692 views, nearly a million more than in 2011.Based on the number of views, ...
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Madrid’s Plaza Colon will house a fulldome cinema seating 200 people, equipped with five Christie Roadster HD20K-J projectors.The event production company New Media, together with Sony and Madrid City ...
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The summit will be held 31 January to 02 February 2013 at the MET Hotel in Thessaloniki.Four ICCA Chapters – Mediterranean, UK/Ireland, Central European and Middle East – have joined ...
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A blend of cultures and traditions, Cordova was the city chosen to stage an incentive organized by VECI Madrid for Ferrovial from 17-18 October.The centre of Cordova, with its patios, ...
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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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Roland Systems Group will be showcasing two new products – its M-200i V-Mixer and V-40HD Multi-Format Live Video Switcher – at Inter BEE, scheduled to be held from 14-16 November in Tokyo. ...
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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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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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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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Get your audience involved—and keep them that way—with these 11 tips for excellent engagement. "Engagement" reached official buzzword status long ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s an idea that should ...
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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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Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) member magazine has been named to the Top Ten Best Magazines of the Year in 2012 by the American Society of Business Publications Editors (ASBPE) Azbee Awards of ...
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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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Congress Rental Singapore, a member of the Congress Rental Network (CRN), has delivered congress systems to a high profile economic meeting with three days notice. The meeting was organised by ...
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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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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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On this occasion, AV Medios not only installed the necessary equipment for the event, but the company’s CEO Manuel Angel Berjon also delivered a keynote address.AV Medios is aware of ...
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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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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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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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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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When Ron Johnson planned a recent conference for the State Bar of California in Hong Kong, the group wanted to minimize its carbon footprint. Responding to this concern, he arranged the entire ...
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With the rapid growth of the mobile channel, SMS marketing is becoming a vital component of a well-rounded digital marketing strategy. Unfamiliar with Best Practices for leveraging this channel, many hoteliers are ...
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The fastest growing meeting destination in Europe according to the latest ICCA statistics, Serbia has made a tremendous leap forward in terms of the number of events it has hosted, taking into ...
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Every year, Google makes more than 500 updates to its search algorithm. The most significant update in 2011 was the Google Panda Update, now in version 2.5, which made most hotel websites ...
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Everyone knows that having a successful search engine optimization strategy is crucial to your site’s overall success. But how do you know if your strategy is successful? The 2011 Google Panda Update ...
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1. More free or low cost apps for events and trade shows"Information technologies of all types are doubling in capability every year" – Ray Kurzweil, Technology Pioneer and FuturistAnother ...
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The collective exhibition entitled "Which is the Paper of Your Choice?" shows the possibilities that paper offers as a medium for contemporary artistic creation.On 8 November, the collective exhibition "Which ...
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The agency reinforces its commitment to co-working and techno-creativity.A stone’s throw away from the Plaza Mayor, Poko’s Madrid headquarters is housed in Utopicus. This multidisciplinary workspace keyed to creative transformation ...
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As in previous editions, ATI Eventos was commissioned to organize an education sector event as important as the 3rd School 2.0 Congress, which took place in Granada this October.The Granada ...
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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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The aim of this forum is to disseminate present and future trends in digital development as seen by the executives of some of the world’s leading companies, including Google, Real Madrid C.F., ...
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As a professional speaker and consultant focusing on events technology, I stay in hotels about 130 nights each year. I have strong feelings on what constitutes the "ideal" stay – especially in ...
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Date of Celebration: 14/10/2011

Visitors to the 2nd International Gay Business and Tourism Fair will have the opportunity to visit over 200 stands and attend the screenings of the 2nd Gay Film Festival.From 14-16 ...
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The results of the industry’s 5th Annual Benchmark Survey on Hotel Digital Marketing Budget Planning and Best Practices are in! Now is the perfect time for hoteliers to re-assess their digital marketing ...
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