Tag: Destination Management Consultant
-
“Berlin: coolest city on the planet?” At Site EMEA Forum 2012
Read more: “Berlin: coolest city on the planet?” At Site EMEA Forum 2012Site EMEA Forum 2012 The last 4 weeks or so have had me all over Berlin – Potsdamer Platz, Unter den Linden, Pariser Platz – but it hasn’t been as exhausting as may seem: Berlin was the key setting…
-
Memphis: Destination King
Read more: Memphis: Destination Kingby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolElla “I’m going to Graceland” So, like millions before us, we headed to Graceland. For me it was like participating on the Santiago di Compostella Camino or visiting Our Lady’s Shine at Lourdes. Snatches…
-
Walking in Memphis – Tales from the ADME Annual Conference
Read more: Walking in Memphis – Tales from the ADME Annual Conferenceby Padraic Gilligan, VP, Ovation Global DMC We arrived early in Memphis having managed to blag our way onto an earlier flight and avoid payment of the $50 dollar fee which Delta said they’d charge but then , for…
-
Global DMCs – a beautiful oxymoron?
Read more: Global DMCs – a beautiful oxymoron?Global DMCs – a beautiful oxymoron? by Padraic Gilligan Allegedly, when asked for his favourite oxymoron Irishman, global entrepreneur and former international rugby player, Tony O’Reilly, said “Great Britain”. But it may be regarded as crass and unfair to…
-
40 years of growth: the art and science of the DMC
Read more: 40 years of growth: the art and science of the DMCBy Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, Ovation Global DMC [First published in Kongres Magazine, December 2011] According to a recent exchange on Linkedin the term “DMC” or “Destination Management Company” was coined by either Tom Risbecker, Gunter Roleff or Phil…
-
Do you know weird and wonderful people? Key Attributes for DMC success.
Read more: Do you know weird and wonderful people? Key Attributes for DMC success.The late, great Jack Franchek once told me that success as a DMC was all about cultivating relationships with weird people. And Jack being Jack exaggerated that contention to the nth degree: “Unless you’ve got a whole bunch of outcasts…
-
Hero or Villain? The true identity of the DMC!
Read more: Hero or Villain? The true identity of the DMC!At an industry function recently I found myself seated between two agency executives. I spent a fascinating and frightening evening listening to war stories about their experiences with DMCs around the world. In roughly half of the stories the…
-
“Flash Mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand?”
Read more: “Flash Mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand?”“Flash mobs in Bangkok: is this Thailand ?” by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, MCI Dublin and VP Ovation Global DMC I thought I was in the middle of a Flash Mob. It was evening rush hour and I had…
SUBSCRIBE
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.