by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I posted a couple of weeks ago on my personal experiences with travel and hospitality brands and how they use social media channels to connect with their customers. You see their avatars on your Twitter feed and notice their ads on Facebook but, I asked, are airlines and hotels… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua For those of us who travel for a living, access to Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Trip Advisor has become almost as essential as carrying multiple credit cards. If you’re in the meetings and events industry then social media become even more crucial because the content… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolElla The best laid plans of MICE and men… I should be writing this blog post from Washington DC where the Association of Destination Management Executives International (ADMEI) is holding its annual conference. However, severe weather on East Coast USA caused my plans to be abandoned – having reached Boston… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolElla Give a dog a bad name My late mother was a great one for the pithy sayings. She had wise words at will to sum up any situation and would frequently quote the proverb “Give a dog a bad name and it’ll stick to him” whenever I’d report negative… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC As a man gets older … As a man gets older he cares less and less that his albums of the year tend not to feature among those chosen and celebrated by the major on and off line publications. With age comes sagging chins, expanding waistlines, night… Read more »
Guest Post by Joan Eisenstodt Asking the hard questions A few years ago at an ethics seminar I facilitated for an industry organization chapter, international students from a nearby college were puzzled by how to apply the industry standards set by US-based meetings/hospitality organizations when they moved back home to improve the economies of their… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations MCI On Boycotting Since August there has been a sustained campaign calling on sponsor corporations of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, like Coca Cola and McDonald’s, to boycott the games in protest at the host country’s appalling treatment of the LGBT community. The meetings industry press has picked… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Most readers of this blog know that Patrick and I are leaving MCI at the end of 2013 but staying in the Meetings Industry to work in the areas of strategy, destination marketing, training and advisory boards. As the two decade arc from Delaney Marketing to Ovation Global DMC approaches… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI A Black and White Issue? The furore around Arthur’s Day now stretches from domestic dining tables to the snugs of public houses, from office canteens to staff rooms in schools, from the letters pages of the broadsheets to the screaming headlines of the tabloids. It’s all over… Read more »
by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC The debate about the future of Destination Management Companies has crossed the Atlantic and has generated good commentary on the pages at MeetPie, the excellent on-line platform of CAT Publications, publishers of Meetings and Incentive Travel magazine amongst others. In his comment there my good friend David… Read more »