Tag: Incentive Travel
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The Ubiquity of Kenny G (and great education at The IRF Invitational)
Read more: The Ubiquity of Kenny G (and great education at The IRF Invitational)by Padraic Gilligan, VP, Industry Relations, MCI I’m sitting at Gate B4 at San Antonio International Airport, waiting for my flight with American Airlines back to Chicago and onwards home to Dublin. I’m surrounded by the anodyne, bland and…
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Florence – City of Art and Artisans
Read more: Florence – City of Art and ArtisansMatteo Renzi has been called the Barack Obama of Florence. He’s the young mayor of Florence who 3 years ago made the courageous decision to ban motorised traffic around the historic centre of the city. The net result of…
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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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24 Hours in Rome – Part 1
Read more: 24 Hours in Rome – Part 1by Padraic Gilligan, VP, Industry Relations, MCI and VP, Ovation Global DMC At break of dawn 04:55 Alarm goes off. To avoid subconscious and ill-advised use of the snooze facility it has been placed far from the bed. It’s…
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Coming Home – Revisiting Ireland’s Incentive Icons: Killarney Park, Europe, Dromoland, Adare
Read more: Coming Home – Revisiting Ireland’s Incentive Icons: Killarney Park, Europe, Dromoland, Adareby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua I’ve greatly enjoyed the opportunity over the past 4 weeks to re-acquaint myself with Ireland as an incentive destination. A combination of familiarisation trips and live programmes brought me, in quick succession, to…
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Ovation Trophy 2012 – the Prologue
Read more: Ovation Trophy 2012 – the Prologue“Yesterday evening I arrived at Lucerne, and put up at the best inn there, the Schweitzerhof” [Count Leo Tolstoy, “Lucerne”] I looked around the Cirrus as we pulled away from the dock opposite The Schweizerhof, one of our host…
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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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Paris for Meetings and Events: Not down and certainly not out
Read more: Paris for Meetings and Events: Not down and certainly not outPadraic Gilligan, VP Ovation Global DMC and VP Industry Relations, MCI Behind me a guitar was being tuned. The tuner then addressed the crowd and launched into the Rod Stewart version of “Sailing”. He was truly terrible and gave…
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