Tag: MICE
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HOW worried SHOULD WE BE for our industry?
Read more: HOW worried SHOULD WE BE for our industry?by Padraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting In the last six years alone we’ve had Covid, Ukraine, Israel, tariffs, Venezuela, Greenland and now Iran. Layer onto that the existential debates around climate and AI and you begin to understand why…
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The real Acronym that might Reshape Incentive Travel is Hiding in Plain Sight
Read more: The real Acronym that might Reshape Incentive Travel is Hiding in Plain Sightby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua Consulting & Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE A Different Kind of Disruption Let’s talk about acronyms. Not the one you’re thinking of, though God knows we’ve talked about that enough. Every conference panel,…
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From “Visit” to “This Is”: How Barcelona IS REWRITING the Rules of Urban Tourism
Read more: From “Visit” to “This Is”: How Barcelona IS REWRITING the Rules of Urban Tourismby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting Barcelona, Reputation and the DNA of Cities Mateu Hernández Maluquer, CEO of This Is Barcelona — the newly re-articulated identity of Turisme de Barcelona — has the kind of presence that makes you…
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5 KEY QUESTIONS FOR 2026 for INCENTIVE TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS
Read more: 5 KEY QUESTIONS FOR 2026 for INCENTIVE TRAVEL PROFESSIONALSby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-founder, SoolNua Consulting | Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE In 1915 Nobel prize winning poet, W. B. Yeats published his poem “Ego Dominus Tuus” opening with these lines: I sought a theme and sought for…
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Ambling Around London on a Saturday in Mid-November
Read more: Ambling Around London on a Saturday in Mid-Novemberby Pádraic Gilligan, co-founder, SoolNua Consulting Ambling around London on a Saturday in mid-November, I’m struck again by the odd, lingering consequences of Covid and climate change. We northern Europeans have lost the run of ourselves entirely, sipping expensive…
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Beyond the Beach: Finding the soul of the Algarve at Viceroy Ombria
Read more: Beyond the Beach: Finding the soul of the Algarve at Viceroy Ombriaby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua | Head of Consultancy & Research, SITE For decades now, the Algarve has been a magnet for sun-starved Northern Europeans seeking blue skies, sand, and golf courses where it doesn’t rain all the time.…
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From Frontier to Forefront: APAC’s Ascent in the World of Incentive Travel
Read more: From Frontier to Forefront: APAC’s Ascent in the World of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Co-Founder, SoolNua | Head of Research & Consultancy, SITE My great friend and SITE colleague in China, Raymond Qian, invited me to speak at a recent ITB China event about the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and…
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“Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith)”
Read more: “Confront the Brutal Facts (Yet Never Lose Faith)”by Pádraic Gilligan, Research & Consultancy, SITE & Co-Founder, SoolNua I travelled to Athens recently to speak at a gathering of meeting and incentive travel professionals, organised by Hosts Global, one of our industry’s foremost and leading DMC consortia.…
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Why incentive travel professionals should follow Irish farmers by adapting to, and adopting AI
Read more: Why incentive travel professionals should follow Irish farmers by adapting to, and adopting AIPádraic Gilligan, Chief Marketing Officer, SITE & Managing Partner, SoolNua AI is not new on the Wild Atlantic Way AI is not at all new in Ireland, at least not along the Wild Atlantic Way or in Ireland’s Hidden…
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Coronavirus – 5 things to keep in mind
Read more: Coronavirus – 5 things to keep in mindby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE. In the MICE business we’re used to things going viral. These things, however, are usually to do with the mildly embarrassing occurrences that happen at events, like the…
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