Category: Destinations
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Bratislava – accessibility | innovation | execution
Read more: Bratislava – accessibility | innovation | executionby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Love at first sight? With Bratislava, you don’t fall in love at first sight. She’s not that kind of city. She’s a pretty city in many ways but she doesn’t use her beauty to…
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London in December
Read more: London in Decemberby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua So the last plane ride of 2015 was atypical. It was a super-short hop, skip and jump leisure / pleasure trip to London with Rita to visit our daughter and son-in-law. But it…
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24 Hours in Zagreb and The Museum of Broken Relationships
Read more: 24 Hours in Zagreb and The Museum of Broken Relationshipsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Rise up again Twenty years ago last month, after almost 5 years of fighting, hostilities with Serbia came to an end and Croatia started to live and breathe as an independent, sovereign nation.…
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Luxembourg – big on conferences and meetings
Read more: Luxembourg – big on conferences and meetingsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua We bent low as we boarded the Bombardier DHC – 8 – 400 direct flight from Dublin to Luxembourg. It was a 1 – 2 configuration with little overhead luggage space, its compact…
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Meetings Venues in London
Read more: Meetings Venues in Londonby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I won’t lie, I wasn’t looking forward to the trip to London. It was a short 2 night trip sandwiched between two long transatlantic journeys but I could easily have done without it.…
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Playa del Carmen hosts SITE
Read more: Playa del Carmen hosts SITEby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The Mexican government has always understood the special appeal of Business Tourism or MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, events) for its regionality, seasonality and high yield characteristics. Thus side by side with the mass…
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Marrakech: a walk on the wild side
Read more: Marrakech: a walk on the wild sideby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Lasting First Impressions It’s such a huge pity your access to the destination is bookended by nonsensical bureaucracy. There are long lines at passport control on arrival and even longer lines at passport control…
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Manchester – An Intellectual Capital
Read more: Manchester – An Intellectual Capitalby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The Football Legacy My past trips to Manchester have left very mixed feelings. In February 2001 I sat next to Meetings Industry legend and IMEX Managing Director, Paul Flackett, an ardent Manchester United…
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Doing Meetings and Events “off-the beaten-track”
Read more: Doing Meetings and Events “off-the beaten-track”by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I’ve been posting most weeks at the site for over 3 years now and am thrilled to say that I’ve had north of 50,000 readers. Every so often I check the metrics available via WordPress…
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Destination Marketing – it’s really about the people
Read more: Destination Marketing – it’s really about the peopleby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In our work with the Slovenian Convention Bureau we are currently focusing on the brand value proposition for meetings and events taking our starting point from content created by Spirit Slovenia, the organisation…
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