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The Catalan association of Professional Congress Organisers celebrates their twentieth anniversary

OPC Catalunya celebrated its twentieth anniversary, last 28th February, in a dinner with professionals from the meeting industry, which had an economic ...

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Heavent Sud, the special event tradeshow for Mediterranean market, celebrates its second edition

Heavent Sud, the equivalent of Heavent (the special event tradeshow celebrated in ...

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Event tourists spend an average of 600 Euros per day

Meeting attendees spent an average of 600 Euros per day, according to a study by ...

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Teamfactory organises an Arabic party for 224 persons

Last 24th February, the event agency Teamfactory organised an Arabic-style gala f ...

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Six architect teams bid for the construction of the Madrid International Convention Center

Six architect team, five from Spain and one from Portugal, will bid for the construction of the new Madrid International Convention Center, which will be located in the old Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid. The result will be made known on the 27th April. This 70,000 square metres complex and an exhibition area of 15,000 [&he ...

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The second edition of Rethink The Basis of Communication

The second edition of the International Forum Rethink The Basis of Communication, ...

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The second edition of Premios eventoplus, is now calling for entries

After the success of the first edition in 2006, Grupo eventoplus is calling for e ...

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Sadd Asthma, new General Director for Hesperia Madrid Hotel

Saad Asthma graduated in Hotel management from the Laussanne Hotel School (Switze ...

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Groups and Meetings among the main source of online revenue

Companies seeking the next big travel opportunity need to explore the groups and meetings arena, according to a new report published by PhoCusWright Inc. This market is key for e-commerce and is one of the latest revenue channels for online sector. The forecast for 2008 is that the meeting market in the United Status reaches ...

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Meeting with professionals on Baix Llobregat meeting industry

More than 120 professionals from the Baix Llobregat meeting industry met last 22th February in the AC Gava Mar ...

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An initiative to measure the economic global importance of the meeting industry

A major worldwide communications campaign has been recently launched at EIBTM 2006 to ensure that everyone work ...

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Teyto and Transformit, tensed fabric providers, launch their alliance

The stand company Teyto, S.L. has started a collaboration with the American firm Transformit. Under the brands Grupart and Selene, Teyto develops diffe ...

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CCIB, third “Best International Conference Center”

The Barcelona International Convention Center (CCIB) won the Bronze Award in the â

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Golf Ahoy offers cruises for events and meetings in May

Golf Ahoy has organised luxury cruises of 3 or 4 nights departing from Barcelona ...

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Business travellers prefer punctuality to travelling in business class

Business travellers give priority to punctuality than travelling in business clas ...

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Innevento organises a working session on new marketing trends applied to events

On the 5th February, the event agency Innevento organised a working session with approximately 75 attendees, mainly event professionals, from large companies in Bilbao and Madrid, at the Camara de Comercio de Bilbao. Eric Mottard from Grupo eventoplus gave a presentation on “Events and Marketing trends”. In the p ...