Tag: Destination Management Company
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Can DMCs protect their intellectual property? ADMEI14
Read more: Can DMCs protect their intellectual property? ADMEI14by 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,…
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Dublin – 10 things to do off-the-beaten path
Read more: Dublin – 10 things to do off-the-beaten pathby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Off-Beat and Off-the-Beaten Path When the Travel Bloggers [TBEX] conference took place in Dublin a few years ago there were quibbles that these intrepid investigators didn’t really showcase anything new or different about…
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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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Nashville
Read more: Nashvilleby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua “And you shall know them by their airports …” Airports are usually your first point of physical contact with a destination but Destination Marketing Organisations (DMOs) frequently miss a golden opportunity to turn…
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5 Tips for Success at IMEX13, Las Vegas
Read more: 5 Tips for Success at IMEX13, Las Vegasby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI In a recent post I recalled, with some nostalgia, the halycon days of IT&ME a.k.a. The Motivation Show when the entire meetings and events industry decamped to Chicago every year in…
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Chicago: a night on the town and Hyatt revisited
Read more: Chicago: a night on the town and Hyatt revisitedby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Mythologising our memories For over two decades meetings and events professionals congregated in Chicago in late September / early October to attend the IT&ME show. It remained IT&ME for many of…
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5 steps to success for Destination Management Companies
Read more: 5 steps to success for Destination Management Companiesby 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…
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Athens, Greece: open for business meetings and events
Read more: Athens, Greece: open for business meetings and eventsby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President of Industry Relations, MCI and Vice President of Ovation Global DMC Athens Greece – wide open for business meetings Do a Google search for Athens and you’ll get more results for the town in…
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How books help sell destinations
Read more: How books help sell destinationsby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Way down South Way back in the late nineties I completed a programme in Tourism Marketing at Boston College. During the programme they flew us for a weekend to Savannah, Georgia…
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Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveries
Read more: Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveriesby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence is a long and sometimes tedious story of love gone wrong, told in the first person by an intensely annoying, socially privileged narrator…
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