活动与新闻: Media

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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Conducted by DCI, "Winning Strategies in Destination Marketing" analyzes the perceptions of North American meeting planners with global meeting planning responsibilities.Development Counsellors International (DCI) will present the findings of a ...
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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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How to lay the groundwork for framing event-based CSR programs.Event professionals are conditioned to organize corporate social responsibility using the familiar "triple bottom line" or possibly the nine APEX categories ...
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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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Value is a loaded word.The worth of something is subjective, depending who’s doing the evaluating and how. When it comes to trade shows, does the organizer’s investment determine their value? ...
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Fukuoka City in Japan and Davao City in the Philippines have both been selected as winners of the IMEX in Frankfurt Wild Card competition for 2013. The IMEX Wild Card ...
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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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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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Coinciding with the end of the first quarter of the year, MODE media tv has completed its Sagrada Familia Basilica video project, about which the company cannot reveal further information because of ...
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Unique ideas for breaking away from traditional meeting formats, whether you have five attendees or 5,000.To generate groundbreaking ideas for meetings, I first ask: "How will we engage meeting participants ...
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Pinterest Web Analytics is now available to website owners who have switched to the new-look Pinterest and whose site has the verified check mark.The key social media player has just ...
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The show concluded with a 7% increase in foreign visitors, thanks to the strong presence of trade professionals from Latin America and Africa, as well as from Spain’s chief feeder markets, such ...
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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 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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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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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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Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s annual survey shows that the overall ranking of priorities for 2013 is very similar to that for 2012.This week, Carlson Wagonlit Travel has recently published its CWT ...
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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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How online gaming techniques can help you design and deliver better meeting content.I am fascinated by technology. The reason? Because when I unpick the reasons behind innovations, I like to ...
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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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In a bid to offer its users an optimum experience, the Spanish and Moroccan meeting and event portal has carried out a long list of improvements during 2012.Aware that today’s ...
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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 Barcelona-based company will make its platform available to the emblematic property located in Madrid’s Gran Via, as well as to four theme hotels in PortAventura.ReviewPro, Spain’s leading online reputation ...
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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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The second of a three-part pricing series, this article focuses on improving the use discounts to boost attendance, engagement and room block pickup, while improving social and environmental performance.This is ...
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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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AV Medios collaborated in the last edition of the OPC Madrid Awards for Professionalism, held on 22 November 2012; this being one of the many activities organized by the association throughout the ...
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EIBTM, the leading global event for the meetings, incentives, events and business travel industry, has confirmed that the show will remain in Barcelona until 2016 and will continue to be hosted in ...
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The first in a three-part pricing series, this article examines myriad essential pricing considerations for meetings and events. Let’s face it: Between the economy, scandals and competition from free online ...
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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 presentation will take place at 12.30pm on 21 November at the Marbella Congress Centre.The presentation of Ubeda and Baeza, both World Heritage Sites, is geared to associations of foreigners ...
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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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Led by Christoph Steiner, the project’s team will make the most of the experience of the sports department of MICE Europe and the long-lasting relationship between KUONI and the UEFA.The ...
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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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How economically challenged european countries can be a boon for U.S. Meetings"Spain’s Credit Crunch," "Greece’s Euro Woes," "Challenges for Europe’s Economic Core." These are just some of the recent news ...
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Vilafranca has adapted it new museum to the 21st century, transforming it into VINSEUM, the Catalonian Wine Culture Museum, which opened its revamped facilities to the public on 6 and 7 October.
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Established in 2006, Aguilar is a communication agency providing both media and corporate clients turnkey solutions.Rita & Champagne is a new concept of bistro which has just opened in Salesas, ...
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In today’s technology-enhanced world, meeting attendees not only appreciate, but expect to have easy solutions for attending events. After all, many of us run our offices, finances and social lives from our ...
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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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The finalists in this year’s ICCA Best Marketing Award are from Greece, Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan and Holland.A technology-enabled programme designed to turn delegates into destination promoters; how to custom-build a ...
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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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Sixty-two percent of buyers predict more events and 72% report that they will be working with new destinations.The results of the 2012 IBTM Global Meetings Industry Research, announced at CIBTM ...
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The 25th of July this year was my 28th birthday. Every birthday, I try to launch a new initiative, product or service that will serve as my birthday gift to the world.
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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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