Category: Meeting Matters
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From Metrics to Meaning: The Rewiring of the Visitor Economy
Read more: From Metrics to Meaning: The Rewiring of the Visitor Economyby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting City Destinations Alliance—mercifully shortened to CityDNA—has been curating the inner life of Europe’s cities for more than half a century, even as it changed its name from EFCT to FOTVE to ECT and…
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Do U.S. incentive planners care enough about sustainability?
Read more: Do U.S. incentive planners care enough about sustainability?Padraic Gilligan, Chief Marketing Officer, SITE & SITE Foundation Divided by a common language When I reflect on the content of some recent conferences, webinars and podcasts, I’m reminded of George Bernard Shaw’s much quoted comment about the US…
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Coronavirus – 5 things to keep in mind
Read more: Coronavirus – 5 things to keep in mindby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE. In the MICE business we’re used to things going viral. These things, however, are usually to do with the mildly embarrassing occurrences that happen at events, like the…
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The Transformative Purpose of Incentive Travel
Read more: The Transformative Purpose of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua and Chief Marketing Officer, SITE I was delighted to share a stage at IMEX Frankfurt with my friend Rhea Stagner of Maritz Travel. We doubled up on moderator duties for a brilliant panel…
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Defining the Business Events Industry – the global voice of JMIC
Read more: Defining the Business Events Industry – the global voice of JMICby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer SITE Joint Meetings Industry Council This week I was privileged to accompany Annamaria Ruffini, SITE President for 2018 to the Joint Meetings Industry Council (JMIC) summit in Hannover, Germany.…
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Rome for Meetings & Incentives plus SITE aggiornamento 2018
Read more: Rome for Meetings & Incentives plus SITE aggiornamento 2018by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua It’s difficult to pull together a series of coherent thoughts following a full-on week in one of the world’s top cities for meetings & events that commenced at the discreet luxury of the…
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Venues for meetings & events – what’s next in the evolution?
Read more: Venues for meetings & events – what’s next in the evolution?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Trends for Venues 2018 Last week I signed off on my contribution to the 2018 edition of EventMB’s Trends Report. Focusing on venues and destinations, I called out the trends that, I believe,…
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Marketing Awards in Business Events
Read more: Marketing Awards in Business Eventsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Tonight the world of Business Events will celebrate the EVCOM Industry Awards (incorporating the Meetings Industry Marketing Awards – MIMA) in London and at SoolNua Towers we’re rigid with excitement. That’s because we’re shortlisted…
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5 reasons why you MUST attend SITE + MPI Global Forum
Read more: 5 reasons why you MUST attend SITE + MPI Global Forumby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua It’s very unusual for me to write about the same topic two weeks in a row. But these are unusual times so having written about the SITE Index last week, here’s another SITE…
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SITE Index – Devil in the Detail
Read more: SITE Index – Devil in the Detailby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua SITE Index 2017 I had the distinct pleasure of co-presenting the results of the SITE Index this year at IMEX America with Rhea Stagner, President of the SITE Foundation and DVP Sourcing &…
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