Hotels & Venues / Spain

IFEMA creates showrooms for high-end hashion brands

22-06-2010. -  These new spaces will be launched with the 64th edition of the Madrid International Fashion and born from the interest expressed by a group of brands that wish to be present at the show, in a differentiated ambient. [...]

Marketing & communication / Global

What do we mean when we talk about Web2.0 meetings?

26-05-2010. -  Internet has changed the way we communicate; and in our industry we now organise events integrating the Web as an essential part of the strategy. If any meeting planner ignores this phenomenal development, he has everything to lose.Here is a list of events that had integrated t [...]

Not Asigned / Spain

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Anniversaries and Celebrations / Spain

Caja Madrid´s foundation launches a 360º CSR project

14-05-2010. -  [...]

/ Italy

BTC publishes an ambitious educational programme

04-05-2010. -  Education rules in trade shows! The latest one to announce a beefed-up programme is Italian BTC, which will offer no less than 25 educational sessions in Rimini on 1st and 2nd of July 2010. [...]

Trends & market research / Spain

A decent 2009 for congresses, not for conventions, in Barcelona

28-04-2010. -  The Barcelona Convention Bureau (BCB) has published its analysis of 2009. It confirms what we have seen in recent months: the congress market has withstood the storm (+0.7% in delegates), but the corporate sector has been bleeding (-37.3%). Good news: 2010 looks better. [...]

Anniversaries and Celebrations / Spain

Grupo eventoplus is 10 years old!

12-04-2010. -  Grupo eventoplus was created in full Internet boom, in april 2000, first as a portal for event planners. As years passed by and we covered better and better the industry and got to understand its needs, we developed new activities: the training courses of evento learning, evento [...]

Hotels & Venues / Global

Top Tech Hotels

30-03-2010. -  From the Hotel facebook where guests communicate via blog, to a Polish hotel where instead of keys and numbers, you enter the room using iPods: new technologies are finding a niche in the hotel world. [...]

Destinations / United Kingdom

Leeds flies to Barcelona for a destination promotion

30-03-2010. -  [...]

Anniversaries and Celebrations / Global

Celebrity restaurants, an option for incentives

17-03-2010. -  La Bardemcilla of Javier Bardem. La Escaleta of Ana Rosa Quintana. La posada de Antonio, of Antonio Banderas. Planet Hollywood de Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone y Whoopi Goldberg. L’Ecaille de la Fontaine y La Fontaine Gaillon de Gérard Depardieu y Carole Bouquet. Larios [...]

Conferences & seminars / Spain

The European conference of MPI launches the sustainable project of Costa del Sol

15-03-2010. -  During the conference, a show communicated sustainability as an ongoing process in the destination: actors brought in boxes with big letters, which put together made up the words "Working towards social responsibility and sustainability". But beyond the animation, the conference [...]

Anniversaries and Celebrations / Spain

Our industry is feminine, and will be even more in the future

08-03-2010. -  This was confirmed by the Universidad Complutense programme (80% girls), the Autonomous University of Barcelona (83%), the Graduate School of Business ESDEN (90%); BCF Consultors (85%), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (95% ); IED Barcelona (89%) and the University of Deusto, in which t [...]

Anniversaries and Celebrations /

Highly personalised events and an aggressive price war will shape the industry

08-03-2010. -  A scenario where competition will be very tough and venues will fight an aggressive price war due to the glut of venue offering (congress centres, but also universities, business centres, offices...) is the one FastFuture identifies as part of its Meetings 2020 project. [...]

Anniversaries and Celebrations / Global

The most unusual hotels for crazy incentives

16-02-2010. -  [...]

Trends & market research / Spain

The meetings industry searches its own future with enthusiasm

02-02-2010. -  We all know meetings have to evolve… but no one knows really how. This project, which aims to gather all energies from our industry to define what the future is like, is gathering steam. Fast Future Research announced the initial line up of sponsors, expert contributors and as [...]