Tag: MCI
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So what does SoolNua do?
Read more: So what does SoolNua do?by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua All’s changed… Regular readers of this blog will have noticed how its byline and biography have changed. They used to say that I was Vice President of Industry Relations at MCI and Managing Director…
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The True Value of Meetings – UNWTO Report 2014
Read more: The True Value of Meetings – UNWTO Report 2014by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) is just over 10 years in existence. Headquartered in Madrid, Spain it publishes a comprehensive annual report on tourism as well as occasional reports on specific…
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MICE people at AIPCO14, Limerick
Read more: MICE people at AIPCO14, Limerickby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Passion and Energy in Limerick The Association of Irish Professional Organisers (AIPCO) made its annual assembly into a pan-MICE gathering this year and attracted almost 200 meetings and events professionals to Limerick, City…
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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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Lessons from Shakespeare for Meeting Industry Newbies
Read more: Lessons from Shakespeare for Meeting Industry Newbiesby 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,…
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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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Day Dreaming at The Gibson Hotel, Dublin
Read more: Day Dreaming at The Gibson Hotel, Dublinby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI A wild gene in the corporate DNA On Friday last week the entire MCI Dublin office decamped to the rather dishy Gibson Hotel and spent most of the day dreaming. Dreaming…
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Associations and PCOs – Final Thoughts from IAPCO13
Read more: Associations and PCOs – Final Thoughts from IAPCO13by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI The Three Musketeers That’s how the executive host committee of the hugely successful IAPCO Conference which took place in Dublin last week described themselves. It’s worth dissecting the image as, I…
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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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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Brussels (and Le Meridien re-visited)
Read more: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Brussels (and Le Meridien re-visited)by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Blushing Belgians As a teenager in the 1970s I was part of an Irish delegation that attended an international arts and performance festival in Rome. Attracting young people from all over…
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