Serbia’s capital, Belgrade in TOP 50 destinations in the World! With 46 international congresses in 2011, having 13 more events than in the previous year, Belgrade has been listed among TOP 50 meeting destinations in the world! (Source: ICCA Country and City Rankings Report 2011).
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EIBTM_BARCELONA 30 Nov 2012 Serbia Convention Bureau continues with the well-established practice of introducing innovations in digital marketing applied to MICE industry. Exclusively, at the EIBTM fair, Serbia Convention Bureau is announcing the campaign for the year 2013, which will be about synergy of sustainability, innovation and MICE.
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Today the Spanish DMC Incentives Barcelona presents its new image at the EIBTM in Barcelona. The blue circle of the logo represents the endless blue sky and also the endless services the company offers. Incentives Barcelona, with over ten years of experience, brings an important extra to incentive trips.
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An expert article recently published by INCON, the international partnership of conference, event and destination companies, explores the impact of market/demand volatility on the meetings industry and the challenges being faced by meeting planners in responding to this key driver of change.
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According to the American Express Meetings & Events 2013 Global Meetings Forecast ("the Forecast"), Asia Pacific, with its relatively strong economy, is likely to see the strongest growth among regions in both spending and the number of meetings. In North America, economic uncertainty is expected to keep those categories relatively flat, while Europe will likely experience declines as it continues to face a currency crisis and, due to political instability in some markets, Central/South America is also expected to see slight declines overall, especially in spend.
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The Adelaide Convention Centre hosted Prince Charles this month as part of his official Australian visit with the Duchess of Cornwall.It was the Prince’s second visit to the Centre having previously attended an official function at the Centre in 1988.The Prince was accompanied by the Premier and Governor of South Australia and Raymond Spencer, Chairman of the State’s Economic Development Board.
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Wine buyers for retailers, hotels, pubs and function centres are being encouraged to register for the 2013 Cellar Door Wine Festival Adelaide (February 22 -24).This year, they’ll get free and exclusive access to sample the best of South Australian wine and food from more than 170 exhibitors.
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As one of the long haul island destinations, Mauritius has successfully built its reputation over decades to position itself as a destination that combines quality, elegance, sophistication and professionalism to enable groups to have a ‘MICE in style experience’ on the island.‘Our destination’s strategy is to maximise all opportunities to increase the destination’s visibility in the MICE segment. MICE represent a big potential especially as Mauritius has the infrastructure and superstructure to cater for MICE groups not only during low season but all year round’ affirms the Director, Dr A.K Mootoosamy who is engaged in developing the MICE segment not only on European markets but in Asia and Russia that have a big potential.
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Europe Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange was hailed as a resounding success by all who attended last week during the inaugural event. EMITE was held October 17-19 in London at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge and is the latest addition to the Global Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchanges portfolio that includes sister events Incentive Travel Exchange and the Caribbean Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange.
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As recently announced by the IAKW-AG Supervisory Board, a new Chief Executive Officer has been appointed at the Austria Center Vienna.Susanne Baumann-Sollner, a trained accountant from Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna, will take up her post with effect from 1 December 2012. The ACV team is looking forward to the refreshing changes the new appointment will bring, and is relishing the challenges associated with repositioning the ACV on the international market.
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UNIDO describes the 2012 congress just held in Vienna as the most environmentally friendly "Global South-South Development Expo" in history. With the assistance of the Vienna Tourist Board's Vienna Convention Bureau, for the first time the organization staged this event - held annually since 2008 - as a certified Green Meeting.
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London & Partners, the Mayor’s official promotional organisation and convention bureau for London, is inviting visitors attending EIBTM in Barcelona to get interactive this year to win a selection of bumper prize packages.
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The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre (The QEIICC) has recorded a 56 per cent increase in the number of International enquiries considering London for events since 1st April 2012.The increase is across both the association and corporate sectors, for events to be held in the next five years. Sue Etherington, Commercial Director said: “I have a reasonably good feeling about the future.
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Simon Hughes has been appointed a non-executive director of The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre (The QEIICC).Hughes is the managing partner of MCHA, the current Chair of Eventia and former director of live events for the Central Office of Information (COI). He has over 25 years’ experience in developing and managing events in both the public and private sectors.
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The seven-year old Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) continues to record healthy growth with all business segments exceeding their targets despite global economic conditions that have overshadowed much of 2012, in particular in Europe and the USA. From 1 January to 31 October 2012, the Centre hosted 1,258 events, a 15% increase from the 1,097 held in the previous corresponding period, and served 1.37 million delegates and visitors.
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Korea’s largest coffee and tea show, Seoul Café Show 2012, will take place from November 22nd through 25th at COEX, Convention and Exhibition Center (Halls C, D & E).The main event will be the presentation of café products and services by 328 companies from 24 countries. Items on display include raw materials and finished products of coffee, tea and desserts, as well as equipment and interior design.
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A group of leading GB-based inbound tour operators visited Co Wicklow last week, as guests of Tourism Ireland and Fáilte Ireland. The group included decision-makers from major travel companies involved in the very lucrative MICE (Meetings, Incentive, Conference and Events) sector.
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The Bangkok based entertainment group, B-Concept Media Entertainment Group Co., Ltd. has announced exclusive partnership with Insta Group Worldwide, a global manufacturer of activated, booth and expo solutions. Under the partnership B-Concept will be responsible for product sales in Thailand and Indochina.
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Jamaica with its tropical locale, array of accommodations, and wide selection of activities has always been a top Caribbean choice for the Meeting and Incentive market. Recent developments on the island have perfectly poised the destination for further success. At the peak of these developments, is the newly opened, 56, 788 square-foot Montego Bay Convention Centre boasting state-of-the-art facilities and solidifying the island as a leader in the category.
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The Annual Conference of the International Association of Conference Centres–Europe was designed to encourage members to seek inspiration and innovation in order to make sure the global association continues to create exceptional meetings experiences. Delegates representing 15 countries from three continents gathered at Lensbury Conference Centre in Teddington, Middlesex outside of London to focus on “Turning Imagination into Innovation” the theme of the conference.
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Scotland’s most influential conference and meetings organisers will today come together to discuss the country’s £1bn business tourism sector in the first conference of its kind to be held in Scotland. Developed by VisitScotland and Scottish Enterprise and in conjunction with an industry steering group, the Glasgow Science Centre will today welcome the crème de la crème of Scotland’s business tourism industry.
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EIBTM 2012 has partnered with a number of local and international businesses to secure a range of special offers and discounts for all attendees of the show, which will take place in Fira Gran Via, Barcelona from 27-29 November. EIBTM has once again partnered with Lufthansa who are offering discounted flights from global destinations to Barcelona. Delegates will also have the opportunity to win a variety of prizes through a number of competitions, which Lufthansa are running prior to EIBTM 2012.
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This year Riga, the capital of Latvia, will be present EIBTM with the offer of new offers for business tourism initiatives, and promising to satisfy everyone not only with modern infrastructure and offers for a large variety of MEETing’ events, but also with an excellent balance (value) of price and quality.
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To meet the rapidly growing demand for green event and convention planning, Via Hansa DMC & PCO is pointing clients to a number of tourism facilities in Estonia that promote sustainable tourism and show ecological responsibility.A perfect example is recently-renovated Vihula Manor, the first full-service manor resort in the Baltic states. The manor is located in Lahemaa National Park, an hour's drive from the Tallinn airport.
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The Gyeonggi International Travel Mart 2012, a travel information and services expo, will be held from November 8th through the 11th at KINTEX in Ilsan-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do Province.Marking its 10th anniversary, the expo will invite over 40 major travel agencies from home and abroad to present their products and services.
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More than 10,000 employees of leading Chinese health food supplement company Pro-Health are to be in Thailand between 4-20 November as part of their incentive award for meeting sales targets. The award-winners, who will split their annual conference and associated events between Bangkok, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya and Pattaya, are the third in a series of huge incentive groups to choose Thailand as their primary destination this year. In April 2012, about 16,000 award-winners of the Amway direct-marketing group in China were in Thailand, followed by another large group of staff and sales-persons from Infinitus (a direct sales company) in May 2012.
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Seven tourism companies from around the island of Ireland travelled to Manchester at the weekend, to join Tourism Ireland for a promotion aimed at raising awareness of Ireland as a fantastic holiday and short break destination.
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