Incentives and meetings

It hasn't been a surprise for a long time. More like a ritual, a good habit... Las Vegas was crowned number one destination for tourism...

There are its polychrome tiled roofs and the famous Hospices de Beaune. So wine, wine and more wine... But there are also so many châteaux, ancient fortified towns and formidable abbeys. abbeys, all firmly rooted in a very Old French landscape. It's easy to forget that Burgundy is just over an hour by TGV from Paris.

When it comes to incentives, which nationalities are on your top list? Andres Serrato - It's quite simple. Year in, year out, 70 % of our customers...

There's the sea, of course, with its beaches and coconut palms. Then there's the culture, culminating in the UNESCO-listed old town of Santo Domingo. But above all, there's the warmth of the people who have made the Dominican Republic's reputation as one of the liveliest islands in the Caribbean.

Towering ferns climb to the ceiling, Jacques Gruber's stained-glass windows showcase pine branches and leaves of...

What are Nancy's strengths? M.-L. R. - First and foremost, its location at the centre of the new Grand Est region. The city's...

IDENTITY CARD Best season: spring, autumn and early December for the Saint-Nicolas celebrations. GETTING THERE The SNCF offers...

Gourmet incentives, whatever their form, are very popular with companies, because they reach a wide target audience and convey a very good image. Particularly in a country with such a reputation for gastronomy as France.

IDENTITY CARD Area code: + 30. Time difference: + 1 h. Currency: euro. Best season: Resorts in Crete generally only open at the end of the year...

Nikos Kazantzakis, the greatest writer ever born in Crete. By choosing this name to christen its international airport rather than Venizelos, his...

Two years after its launch, BizMeeting has just announced that it has raised €1 million in funding. The booking platform dedicated to seminars and conferences...

Yes, it is! Lisbon is located on the banks of a river. This may not seem so obvious to all the visitors who, from...

How do you explain the fact that Portugal has become one of the favourite destinations for business tourism? Jean-Pierre Pinheiro: Portugal has the wind in its...

IDENTITY CARD Time difference: + 1 h. Currency: euro. Best season: All seasons, even winter, which is mild in Lisbon. Group size : No limit...

The news is rare enough to merit a mention: while Paris and Vienna have for many years shared the leadership of the global MICE market, this time it's an unprecedented destination that has come out on top. Berlin dominates the 2015 rankings of the International Congress & Convention Association (ICCA), the benchmark annual barometer for the MICE sector.

Brittany's MICE catalogue will soon be welcoming a "new kid on the block" with big ambitions: the Rennes Métropole Convention Centre is due to open its doors...

This is a landmark partnership in the young history of Bird Office, and perhaps even on the scale of the French meeting room hire market. In any case, it will validate - if proof were needed - the legitimacy of the French start-up, by endorsing the reliability of the solutions developed by Bird Office over recent months.

London, Barcelona, Amsterdam: that's the trifecta, in order, named by Cvent in its 2016 "Top 25 Meeting Destinations in Europe" ranking ....

IDENTITY CARD Formalities Machine-readable passport issued before 26 October 2005 or biometric passport. No visa is required. The ESTA form (Electronic System for Travel...

"There's so much to do, both inside and outside the resorts".