NEW HIGHS IN SHANGHAI

When the Shanghai World Financial Centre opened in 2008, at a dizzying 492m it became the tallest building in China. Standing majestically in the heart of the Pudong East Bank cluster of skyscrapers, no sooner had its opening ceremony been wrapped up than another planned skyscraper was shooting from the ground right next to it. …

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Philoxenia means – ‘a welcome for the stranger’

A Very Warm Welcome

The seemingly endless euro zone economic crisis has cast a blanket of grey cloud over all of Europe with its economic uncertainty, austerity measures being meted out and the political instabilities that have been fomented. This has been felt much more in the periphery than the core EU countries, and nowhere more so than in …

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The number of exhibitors and hosted buyers still increasing

Bangkok Revs Up for Business

Bangkok is certainly a city with the wow factor and the ideal location for celebrating the twin anniversaries of double-bill partners Incentive Travel and Conventions Meetings Asia (IT&CMA) (20th anniversary) and Corporate Travel World (CTW) (15th anniversary). Prior to the Thai Airways-sponsored event, which took place between 2nd – 4th October 2012, international buyers, corporate travel …

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Time to Thai up some serious business

This year’s Incentive Travel & Conventions, Meetings Asia (IT&CMA) at the Bangkok Convention Centre (BCC) in the Thai capital celebrates its 20th anniversary and, with its sister Corporate Travel World (CTW) event also making its 15th outing, it promises to be celebrated in true style. The doors of last year’s highly successful IT&CMA having closed …

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A MICE Monsoon

After India’s long, dry season there is a sense of relief when the first raindrops signal the coming monsoon. With the welcome rains bringing an abrupt end to the dryness, however, also come the annual problems that the deluge creates – a stress on flood management, the challenges for normal operation of transport infrastructure, the …

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A very rich product but not the branding behind it

An Associated Approach to Strength and Growth

Getting an overview of what’s been happening on the Athens and Greece hotel landscape and their response to current challenges, The Kongres Telescope spoke to Alexandros Vassilikos (AV), Chairman of the Athens – Attika Hotel Association and Agni Christidou (AC), Director of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels.   Could you tell us a little about …

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Asia’s Meetings Gateway

MALAYSIA – THE CROSSROADS OF ASIA

With its strategic location at the centre of Southeast Asia and blessed with upscale modern infrastructure, Malaysia may prove to be the perfect destination four your next international event. Need to be convinced? Here’s an excerpt from the Introduction to the Malay Annals by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, dating as far back as 1821: “When …

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IT&CM China 2012: The express goal is to double the size of the event over the next 2-3 years

Viewing the World and in the World’s View

From the top of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, it feels like you can see right across the world. Located in Shanghai’s central Pudong district and reaching a height of just under 500m, the 474m observation deck offers views that are hard to imagine, never mind to describe. Whilst the field of view mightn’t actually …

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IT&CM India gears up for its first outing as part of the IT&CM circuit this August

An Indian Summer

After a summer of disappointing and autumnal-like weather, a phenomenon all too common when you live on the British Isles, sometimes the climate takes pity and sends a mini-summer in the month of September, something referred to as an ‘Indian summer’. It comes late, but it is certainly welcome. And so it is with this …

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View from the Flight Deck

With Aegean Airlines ensuring that a trip to Greece begins at check-in and that you can savour Hellenic delicacies until they get you home, Stephanos Sadopoulos, Sales Manager for Greece, and Giannis Goulielmos, Congress and Conventions Specialist, took some time out from their busy schedule at Greece’s favourite airline to talk about some of their …

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