Tag: Destination Management
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Great Hospitality Starts with Great Quality of Life: A European Response to Rafat Ali
Read more: Great Hospitality Starts with Great Quality of Life: A European Response to Rafat Aliby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting As founder of Skift, Rafat Ali, for many years, has been chronicling the travel and tourism sector with insider precision and sometimes outsider moral outrage, and in this latest piece, The Great American…
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The DMC conundrum – will it ever be solved?
Read more: The DMC conundrum – will it ever be solved?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua My good DMC friend Fran Rickenbach has been pursuing me for some time now. I won’t deny that this frightens the daylights out of me. Those who know Fran know why. She’s a…
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Leaving Las Vegas: Off the Strip at Red Rock Resort
Read more: Leaving Las Vegas: Off the Strip at Red Rock Resortby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President Ovation Global DMC Leaving Las Vegas I arrived into McCarran from Montreal magically gaining back 3 hours of my day in the process. The Air Canada flight touched down in bright sunshine and soon…
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Montreal = Arcade Fire? / Final Night at ADMEI
Read more: Montreal = Arcade Fire? / Final Night at ADMEIby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Montreal = Arcade Fire The blizzard abated, the snow stopped falling and clear blue skies returned to Montreal. Thus I was coaxed out of the warm cosiness of the Sheraton into…
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MadMen at the Rome Cavalieri
Read more: MadMen at the Rome Cavalieriby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Don and Betty at the Hilton Rome Most fans of Mad Men, the US TV series set in a Madison Ave Ad agency in the early 60s, will recall the Rome episode from programme’s 3rd…
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24 Hours in Rome – Gran Melia Villa Agrippina, Roma
Read more: 24 Hours in Rome – Gran Melia Villa Agrippina, Romaby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua [This is part 2 of a two part post on Rome – it dates from 2012] 17:15 The sweeping views over Rome from Piazzale Garibaldi are breathtaking. Strangely, it’s a part of the…
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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…
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