Category: Destinations
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Dory & Me – from Frustration to Friendship
Read more: Dory & Me – from Frustration to Friendshipby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In Feb 2016 Dory came into our lives and all hell broke loose. I started to post occasional updates on Facebook on the vicissitudes of my relationship with this frisky, friendly, frustrating Golden…
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Malaysia – Best Value for Business Events
Read more: Malaysia – Best Value for Business Eventsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua MyCEB This blog has been going since January 2011 but prior to that I wrote occasional pieces for MICE industry magazines. The first of these was a piece on Malaysia Business Events written,…
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Falisia Resort & Spa – Luxury Collection comes to North East Italy
Read more: Falisia Resort & Spa – Luxury Collection comes to North East Italyby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Like an old married couple When I was 15 I visited Italy for the first time. It was love at first sight and, over time, took on the vicissitudinal trajectory of a life-long…
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Great destinations need great hotels – update on Ljubljana
Read more: Great destinations need great hotels – update on Ljubljanaby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua 10 years after Supergreybeard and I are currently working with the National Tourist Authority here in Ireland on a 10 year strategy for Business Tourism. It’s a perfect project for us as it…
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Adare Manor – the jewel in Ireland’s incentive crown
Read more: Adare Manor – the jewel in Ireland’s incentive crownby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua A radically altered landscape The austerity years in Ireland were callous and cruel to those Celtic Tiger vanity investors who fancied themselves as hoteliers but had neither the relationships, the know-how nor the…
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Dublin’s Docklands – new opportunities for incentive travel experiences
Read more: Dublin’s Docklands – new opportunities for incentive travel experiencesby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Our work these days has caused us to reflect quite a bit on the way Ireland as a destination for Business Events and MICE has changed over the past couple of decades. Many…
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The Camino to Santiago: Experience & Meaning
Read more: The Camino to Santiago: Experience & Meaningby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Dedicated to our fellow pilgrims, John & Cathie, Niall & Mary, Ken & Stephanie with infinite thanks for the wonderful memories and the great friendship But what about the meaning? The Pilgrim’s Reception…
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EPIC stories at the Irish Emigration Museum
Read more: EPIC stories at the Irish Emigration Museumby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In celebration of EPIC’s first birthday, this is an updated version of the original post “Stories – what makes a destination truly unique” that first appeared on May 13 2016. Telling Stories In many languages…
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Cycling the Ring of Kerry – better than a round at Ballybunion?
Read more: Cycling the Ring of Kerry – better than a round at Ballybunion?by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Anecdotally, cycling has overtaken golf as the sport of choice for the C-suite. The corporate world has figured it’s less personally humiliating to be a sluggish rider than an useless hacker. After all…
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It’s Global Meetings Industry Day 2017
Read more: It’s Global Meetings Industry Day 2017by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Global Meetings Industry Day? If you’re active on social media or read on-line news, you’ll know that every single one of the 365 days of the year has been claimed either nationally or…
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