MICE

Laurence Gaborieau, Managing Director of the IFTM (International French & Travel Market), met the press on 20 June at the beautiful and historic Maison des Polytechniciens in Paris to give an update on the direction and new features of the show, which will take place from 17 to 19 September at the...

Grape Hospitality owns or manages around a hundred hotels under franchise from Accor, IHG and Louvre Hotels. Let's look back at the origins of your group. Frédéric Josenhans - The adventure began in 2016 with the acquisition of 85 businesses from the Accor group. With our shareholders, i.e. Eurazeo for 70% and AccorInvest for...

A shorter format in this Olympic year, but no less effective: for its annual See You There (SYT) event, following on from Nancy and Deauville, UNIMEV chose the Palais des Congrès in Versailles to bring together more than 300 players in the events industry for professional exchanges and conferences on a range of themes...

A seminar venue in the great outdoors, but accessible using the Navigo pass, with a T13 tram stop right next door and the Saint-Cyr-l'École RER station not far away. The café-hotel Le Bout du Parc responds to two major trends in business meetings and events today: the need for...

Kactus is offering a new feature to the 10,000 venues listed on the platform specialising in BtoB events. A detailed dashboard of their activity, aimed first and foremost at developing their sales and, consequently, maintaining closer links with the 35,000 corporate clients of Kactus,...

High up in the Paris skyline, with its convention space designed to accommodate up to 2,800 people, the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile keeps the flame of MICE alive within the Hyatt group. Like other hotels in Europe, moreover, well-equipped with meeting rooms of all sizes: the Grand Hyatt Barcelona, which has just...

Blocked in 2023 because of local political opposition to its alleged environmental impact, Canua Island, the luxury event barge, has finally been able to set sail from Mandelieu-la-Napoule, following a court ruling that it should be licensed to sail and operate. Inaugurated on 16 May in front of an audience of 300 guests, the trimaran...

Back to the future. The 40-storey H4 Hotel Paris Pleyel, overlooking the Olympic Village and the Stade de France, is as much a part of the future of the beating heart of Paris 2024, the city of Saint-Denis, as it is a flashback to the 1970s. Back in the days when Paris was dotted with high-rise...

The red carpet is rolled out on the famous steps, and stars in dinner jackets and evening gowns parade down the Croisette. The 77th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday in the Auditorium Louis-Lumière, the main hall of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, which was inaugurated in 1982. The film event is one of the most important in the world...

The IMEX trade fair in Frankfurt gave the Radisson Group the opportunity to review the development of its technological solutions for meeting and event organisers. Among the new features was a long-term partnership with MeetingPackage, one of the leading SaaS solutions for event management, which opens up a new sales channel for the group....

A few weeks ago, the Spanish group Barcelo announced a €50 million expansion plan in Portugal, on the island of Madeira. This investment will support the construction of a new hotel in the historic centre of Funchal, due to open at the end of 2025 next to the Mercado dos Lavradores, as well as...

With its 200 rooms, convention centre and 97 hectares of parkland with an 18-hole golf course, the Mercure Chantilly is the flagship hotel in the MICE segment for hotel owner and operator Atypio Hotels & Resorts. Already well known to businesses when it flew the flag for the Wyndham group's Dolce brand, the Mercure Chantilly...

Why choose Casablanca for your next Business Event 1. A contemporary capital and a hub connected both nationally and internationally. Casablanca, the economic capital of Morocco, embodies the very essence of the alliance between the richness of tradition and the effervescent energy of modernity. Nestling on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, this captivating metropolis flourishes as...

What impact will the Olympic Games have on B2B events and office life? In its recent annual study of MICE trends in France, Coach Omnium estimated that more than a third of companies would see their MICE business decline as a result of the Olympic Games....

Incentive seminars, festive events such as afterworks, dinners, cocktails or product launches: these two types of business meetings have been driving demand for MICE since the end of the pandemic, gaining even more market share last year according to Coach Omnium's 31st annual study of trends in business tourism in France, carried out in...

A carbon footprint calculator created for the events industry by the events industry; a solution that is flexible enough to reflect the realities on the ground, from site operation to catering, stand design and design agencies, but also very rigorous in the collection and analysis of data.

Providing an ad hoc response to the sector's new needs: this is the credo of the IMEX Frankfurt event, to which business travel and MICE professionals will be converging from 14 May. With a global representation in terms of exhibitors, conferences covering the most topical issues and opportunities, IMEX Frankfurt will be the place to be...

On Monday, Kactus made official its entry into a new MICE segment: team building. It's a logical move for the technology platform specialising in BtoB events. All the more so as it is part of a buoyant context, as Kactus managers point out: "At a time when employees are seeing less of each other, but are looking for ways to...

A new MICE centre will soon be appearing at the Frankfurt hub, more precisely next to the Lufthansa Aviation Center (LAC). The German airline made the start of construction official on 12 April, with the aim of opening in 2026. The inauguration will coincide with the airline's centenary. The brand new...

Barcelona's business hotel sector is reinventing itself. Shortly after the revival of the former Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, next to the Palacio de Congresos and now, after a long renovation phase, the Gran Melia Torre Melina, another hotel designed for business travellers has just appeared: the Grand Hyatt Barcelona. A hotel whose history...