Incentives and meetings

Since its launch at the end of 2013, the Bird Office website has been rethinking the codes of meetings. The 100% online platform builds bridges between partners under-utilising their meeting rooms and users looking for space, savings and originality. The French start-up, which applies the recipe of the collaborative economy to BtoB, is now taking things a step further with the launch of its revamped website: a new, more intuitive showcase, featuring a rating system for meeting rooms and users. Interview with Arnaud Katz, co-founder of Bird Office.

First, there's Evora, capital of the Alentejo region and a World Heritage Site. And then, all around, dotted along the swell of hills, a multitude of distinctive white villages. Tour operators have grasped the region's appeal by offering this white villages route, which has the good idea of intersecting with the gastronomy route.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luang Prabang, the most fascinating city in Laos, is the perfect refuge for a nonchalant and spiritual break, with monasteries to discover, elephant rides and cruises along the Mekong...

Frequent Flyer Travel Paris has signed an agreement with Dream Concept. The MICE brand will thus be exploited exclusively by the business travel agency, which intends to promote the Travel MICE concept, focusing in particular on rationalising expenditure and measuring return on investment. 

Identity cards Formalities National identity card or passport. Best season Summer can be scorchingly hot in the Alentejo. Spring is wonderful, as is autumn. Group size...

APECATE is the Portuguese association for congresses, events, tourism and culture.

Hotels and gastronomy, originality and proximity: these are just some of the many assets that Spain can now draw on to establish itself as a top-class MICE destination, just two hours away by plane.

Paris tops the world rankings published on 11 May by the ICCA association, which compiles the 2014 statistics for meetings. France is ranked 5th by country. 

"In the wet season, the green of the vegetation is more intense, the waters of the Mekong wilder".

Yan Dalla-Pria is a sociologist and lecturer at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense, and a speaker on corporate sport issues.

Nurten Keskin Rollier is the director of Wisdom & Blue Days Travel.

In autumn 2014, an oil group invited its sales force on a reward trip to Turkey. Wisdom & Blue Days Travel put together a tailor-made programme combining Istanbul and Bodrum. It was a subtle mix of cultural visits and fun activities, prestigious private venues and hijinks. Here's a day-by-day account.

The Office Riders platform is making a name for itself in the world of the collaborative economy: the French site offers start-ups, business travellers and other self-employed people the chance to rent all or part of a flat by the hour or day in order to work there or organise a meeting or event. 

Identity card Formalities: passport valid for six months after the date of return and compulsory visa. Valid for 30 days, it is issued on arrival, in...

The Smart Kapp board opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the traditional business meeting, by taking the traditional flipchart out of the spotlight and putting it in a hyper-connected world. 

Greenland-Iceland: a magical combination, one of the most memorable journeys you can make in your life, a deluge of icebergs and glaciers listed as World Heritage sites, and in both countries, a good-natured population that knows how to welcome foreigners. Without hesitation.

Havana speaks to us of a time that those under sixty cannot possibly know. The story has great pace, and its echoes follow you all the way to the unspoilt city of Trinidad, the golden glory of the conquistadors.

OnlyLyon has published its review of 2014, marked by an increase in tourist numbers, thanks in particular to good results from business tourism.

The Business Travel Show opens its doors in London on 25 February for two days of events dedicated to the business travel market.

Bird Office has published an instructive study on the new behaviour of French managers when it comes to meetings: "La grande infographie des réunions" deciphers in just a few images the secrets of a productive approach, to avoid meetingitis...