Category: Meeting Matters
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What I learned at the Site Conference in Toronto
Read more: What I learned at the Site Conference in Torontoby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Busy Times We’re heading into a really busy time for MICE professionals. Site’s annual conference in Rotherdam kicks off today leading straight into EIBTM in Barcelona on Tuesday next. Meanwhile, thousands of miles…
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Web Summit 2014: 5 new technology tools for travel
Read more: Web Summit 2014: 5 new technology tools for travelby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In only 4 years the Web Summit has grown from 400 attendees to 22,000 attendees, a staggering growth curve by any criteria. This spectacular increase appears to stem from a happy coincidence of…
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5 places to go for great on-line content for MICE – Updated
Read more: 5 places to go for great on-line content for MICE – Updatedby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua From time to time I have been asked where I go for good, on-line MICE content. Within the MICE industry there’s a plethora of good content so here’s my current list of sources.…
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Large Events: Garth Brooks and the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycle
Read more: Large Events: Garth Brooks and the Ring of Kerry Charity Cycleby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua B2B and B2C Most discourse in the meetings industry tends to coalesce around “private” events for individuals, companies or associations. Occasionally, when a private event is particularly large – the welcome event for…
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IMEX14: the Economic Impact of Events
Read more: IMEX14: the Economic Impact of Eventsby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I got the moves like Jagger The dance floor was packed like a mosh pit with more moves going on than a nation of nomads. The band was tight and tidy, dishing out…
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The True Value of Meetings – UNWTO Report 2014
Read more: The True Value of Meetings – UNWTO Report 2014by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) is just over 10 years in existence. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain it publishes a comprehensive annual report on tourism as well as occasional reports on specific…
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Literature and MICE – only The Witches and Small World?
Read more: Literature and MICE – only The Witches and Small World?by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In a recent editor’s blog on MeetPie the author refers to Roald Dahl’s The Witches as “one of the few works of literature set in the heady world of the conference and events…
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MICE people at AIPCO14, Limerick
Read more: MICE people at AIPCO14, Limerickby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Passion and Energy in Limerick The Association of Irish Professional Organisers (AIPCO) made its annual assembly into a pan-MICE gathering this year and attracted almost 200 meetings and events professionals to Limerick, City…
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DMCs in the spotlight as ADMEI comes to DC
Read more: DMCs in the spotlight as ADMEI comes to DCby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolElla Next week I travel to Washington DC to participate at the annual conference of ADMEI, the association of destination management executives. This will be only my third time to participate at ADMEI but I…
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Milestones, Highlights and Lessons Learned: 20 years as a DMC
Read more: Milestones, Highlights and Lessons Learned: 20 years as a DMCby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolElla Fiche bliain ag fas 20 years ago this year Patrick Delaney and I started Delaney Marketing Consultants and launched ourselves as “Ireland’s leading DMC” to the understandable annoyance of our long established competitors.…
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