Tag: Site
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1st Pan-Industry Survey of Incentive Travel
Read more: 1st Pan-Industry Survey of Incentive Travelby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua & Chief Marketing Officer, SITE Incentive Travel Industry Index 2018 Last week Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) and Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) released their eponymous joint…
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In Memoriam: Paul Flackett & Jane Schuldt, giants of the incentive industry
Read more: In Memoriam: Paul Flackett & Jane Schuldt, giants of the incentive industryby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua In his poetic masterpiece The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot writes “April is the cruellest month …”. For the incentive industry and SITE, in particular, we might re-phrase Eliot’s words and say “2017 was…
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SITE Index – Devil in the Detail
Read more: SITE Index – Devil in the Detailby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua SITE Index 2017 I had the distinct pleasure of co-presenting the results of the SITE Index this year at IMEX America with Rhea Stagner, President of the SITE Foundation and DVP Sourcing &…
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Talking incentive travel with the Mayor of Ljubljana
Read more: Talking incentive travel with the Mayor of Ljubljanaby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua A week in Europe’s Green Capital 2016 @Supergreybeard and I have just reached the end of a deeply satisfying week in Slovenia. Over the past 5 days we attended the SITE Incentive Summit…
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The Meetings Industry: 5 questions we need to answer
Read more: The Meetings Industry: 5 questions we need to answerby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua IMEX is both Google and Amazon for the Meetings Industry. It’s a search engine and a showroom for network building, knowledge transfer and business exchange. It has a robust digital life but IMEX…
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Conducting a Good Site Inspection: it’s no joke!
Read more: Conducting a Good Site Inspection: it’s no joke!by Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua An oldie but goldie … Most of us in the industry know the site inspection joke about the meeting planner who, due to over-crowding in heaven, is given the chance to check out…
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Prove it! Why we need organisations like the Site Foundation
Read more: Prove it! Why we need organisations like the Site Foundationby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua From hands-on execution to hands-off strategy Following decades as a DMC and MICE agency, Patrick Delaney and I are now working as consultants / advisors on meetings, incentives, conferences and events under our…
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Should the maids be tipped at Marriott?
Read more: Should the maids be tipped at Marriott?by Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner at SoolNua Downtown San Francisco “You want to take the Cable Car?” he asked with breezy friendliness. We welcomed his intervention having struggled to understand how the iconic San Francisco system worked. He explained…
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5 places to go for great on-line content for MICE – Updated
Read more: 5 places to go for great on-line content for MICE – Updatedby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua From time to time I have been asked where I go for good, on-line MICE content. Within the MICE industry there’s a plethora of good content so here’s my current list of sources.…
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The 3 Ingredients for a Great Event
Read more: The 3 Ingredients for a Great Eventby Pádraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Yesterday the SoolNua crew participated at Site Ireland’s annual summer event and came away inspired, energized and truly motivated. And it wasn’t just the unabated sunshine – temperatures were 25 degree +. Upon…
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