Incentives and meetings

Where to organise a trip incentive or a seminar team building successful? What are the most popular and least popular destinations, and what are their advantages? An address book covering a wide range of countries, from Mauritius to the United States. Dubaiby way of Berlin and of course France. (see more)

Keep up to date with the latest information on the main players in the sector MICEthe places where congress and trade shows such as Viparis and GL Events, or the specialists in hosting meetings and events like Châteauform.

Ukraine: Under the golds of the East

Flight plan

Ukraine International Airlines flight PS 702 on 20 April 2009, on a Boeing 737-400, similar to the flight made by the group in its time. Take-off at 10.30am.

Olga Sansone, Eastern Europe Destination Manager, Vacanture agency

These countries are only just opening up to visitors, particularly MICE, and are not really well known.

Introduction to wheelchairs for a group of managers

Discussions in sign language with a deaf facilitator, or an introduction to wheelchairs for a group of managers guided by a deaf woman.

I'll be a Massai

Terra Natura is offering an incentive programme in Kenya entitled "I'll be a Maasai". Far from folklore, a responsible discovery of another culture, with its own way of life...

Living with the Masai

Since 2008, the Terra Natura association has been offering small incentive groups, up to a maximum of twelve people, the chance to experience a unique form of solidarity in Kenya: an immersion...

The Seychelles: a well-preserved fruit

Anse Kerlan, on the island of Praslin, is plunged into darkness. Despite the silhouette of the luxury Lemuria hotel lining the beach, there are no palm trees...

Bank Of America Tower: Innovation on every floor

"The greenest skyscraper in the world": the promoters of One Bryant Park are not pulling any punches when it comes to...

Incentive: sustainable motivation

According to a 2009 TNS Sofres/Voyages-sncf.com and Routard.com study on the French and responsible tourism, today "60 % of French people are aware of the concept of responsible tourism....

A life after the red carpet: The Palais des...

The Bunker" is the unkind nickname that journalists have given the "new" Palais des Festivals in Cannes since its inauguration at the end of 1982. Inherited from a time when the plasticity of convention centres was not an imperative objective, and when it was still considered normal to set up exhibition halls in blind basements, the Palais des festivals has little chance of applying for the title of 'wonder of the world', despite its ideal location between the Croisette and the Vieux Port.

Vienna: modernity invented

For incentive operations, a visit to Vienna is a holiday with a high cultural added value, as participants can take advantage of the opportunity to take part in a debate...

Morocco: Marrakech the Red / Tangier the White

Like every evening, the terrace of the Café de France is fully booked. At the bottom of the steps, Issan gives his voice to encourage tourists to cross the threshold. It's "the place to be in Marrakech", he laughs. And he's right! The view from up here is breathtaking. The Place Jemaa el-Fna, the heart of the city, beats to the beat. And if the ochre buildings here are graceless, almost hideous, it's because the charm of Jemaa el-Fna lies elsewhere. As soon as night falls, the magic of the Orient is at work, and the whole of Marrakech seems to make an appointment there.

NETHERLANDS: practical information

All the practical information you need to organise your next business trip to Amsterdam and The Hague.

The Ultramarine Azores under the anticyclone

Ah, the Azores are off to a good start... In Horta, the tiny capital of Faial, one of the nine islands of the Portuguese archipelago lost in the middle of the Atlantic,...

The small port of Calheta de Nesquim

On the island of Pico, the second largest in the archipelago, the small port of Calheta de Nesquim is dominated by its...

Incentive and culture: an exceptional marriage

With almost 14,000 listed buildings and sites, around 26,000 listed on the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments, 4,000 museums and some 2,000 festivals, the...

Whaling museum

Abandoned in 1984, whaling is now the subject of a museum set up on the island of Pico, where you can also visit a...

Abseiling in the Champagne cellars

While the tasting stage is obviously a must, the theme of wine and vines lends itself to all kinds of variations: for example, a...

Netherlands: the Dutch spirit

Business acumen and entrepreneurship are in our genes," says Michiel Middendorf, Managing Director of the World Forum, the congress centre in The Hague....

Converted industrial sites

Industrial wastelands, laboratories, factories, disused factories... These rehabilitated sites are enjoying a second life, often becoming avant-garde artistic spaces adopted for original events....

Ernst W. Veen, Director of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam

Does the opening of the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam, announced for 2009 as part of "Holland Art Cities", illustrate this famous Dutch spirit? Ernst...