Tag: Motivational Events
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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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Irish boutique hotels on Trip Advisor’s Top 25 – lessons in on-line marketing
Read more: Irish boutique hotels on Trip Advisor’s Top 25 – lessons in on-line marketingby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI Group As a Irish born meetings professional I was obviously thrilled that 3 Irish properties were included in the recent Trip Advisor Travellers’ Choice Top 25 Hotels in the World. 17…
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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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It’s not about the money, money, money? Leveraging employee engagement and emotional connections for success
Read more: It’s not about the money, money, money? Leveraging employee engagement and emotional connections for success“It’s not about the money, money, money” Leveraging employee engagement and emotional conections for success by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Industry Relations, MCI In the November issue of Pharmaceutical Market Europe, Nick Eve, CEO of UK based communications agency,…
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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…
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FICP – Day 2
Read more: FICP – Day 2FICP – Day 2 by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, Ovation Global DMC I’m not going to lie. The transfer from San Antonio to Knibbe Ranch was very, very long. At first it was long enough for me to desperately…
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FICP – Day 1
Read more: FICP – Day 1FICP Day 1 by Padraic Gilligan, Ovation Global DMC On Sunday 13 November the Grand Hyatt in San Antonio dispatched its share of the 30000 participants at the city marathon and prepared for the arrival of 800 demanding, discerning…
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FICP in San Antonio – Arrival Day
Read more: FICP in San Antonio – Arrival Dayby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Director, Ovation Global DMC I’m 51 and I’ve never done it. There. I’ve said it. I talked to Dan Young and I know he’s done it. A good few times, it seems. So has Darlene…
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