MICE

The Burdigala, long Bordeaux's leading upmarket hotel, is getting ready to regain its status. Closed since October 2021 to embark on a renovation programme, the hotel is set to reopen in early September. Redesigned by interior architect Fabien Roque, the hotel will oscillate between luxury and lifestyle. With a boutique feel too...

The recent Formula 1 British Grand Prix gave the Hilton Group the opportunity to officially inaugurate its new Hilton Garden Inn, the only establishment located on the Silverstone circuit. The hotel boasts an unrivalled position along the 'Hamilton Straight', renamed in 2020 in honour of the British champion. The hotel groups...

With brands such as Pullman and Fairmont designed for major corporate meetings, and others such as MGallery more suited to smaller seminars, and some such as Sofitel for 'hand-crafted' MICE, the Accor group's range of brands opens up a wide range of possibilities for event organisers. The Global Meeting Exchange event, organised this year at the...

The Abidjan Exhibition Centre (PEA) was officially inaugurated on 17 July by Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, Vice-President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Strategically located at Abidjan Port-Bouët, next to Félix Houphouët-Boigny airport, it occupies no less than 16 hectares. And it lays claim to the status of the largest exhibition centre...

On 12 July, the Tampa Convention Center officially entered a new era. It cost $38 million (€33.8 million) and took 20 months of work to rejuvenate the convention centre in Florida's third-largest city, which attracts a large number of business travellers every year. The...

"The largest resort of its kind in Europe": the Melco group was not short of superlatives when preparing its arrival in Cyprus. Monday's inauguration of the City of Dreams Mediterranean, in Limassol, should usher in a new era for the island, with a significantly increased capacity and appeal for...

Following last year's inauguration of Station Cosmos, a 4-star hotel with 76 rooms on the theme of space, this week Futuroscope is opening Ecolodgee. This unclassified but 3* establishment of 120 ultra-cosy wooden lodges - but without air conditioning or TV! - It required the creation of a landscaped park, islands...

Exhibitors and visitors from abroad are back at Paris Region and French trade shows, or will be in the near future. This is the good news to come out of a study published on Monday 26 June 2023 on the "new behaviour of international business customers at French trade fairs". The survey was conducted by the "Copil Congrès...

It is far from being Austria's best-known city. And that's a mistake. Graz, the country's second largest urban centre with a population of just under 300,000, has nothing to envy its more internationally renowned counterparts such as Innsbruck and Salzburg. The capital of the Land of Styria, in south-east Austria,...

What do you think of Niger as a business destination? Etienne Giros - Niger was a good partner for the CIAN forum. It seems to me that the Nigerien authorities have a certain "desire for France" and are pro-business. There is a favourable business climate. Of course, this is part of a region...

In the shadow of Vienna's coronation in the ICCA rankings, and while everyone was on the lookout for this post-Covid MICE atlas, the news passed relatively unnoticed. Yet it is indicative of the rise of an ambitious destination, a newcomer intent on carving out a place for itself in the sun of major international events. For the...

Nearly three months after work was completed, the new MICE facilities at the Village Club du Soleil were unveiled in mid-June. The operator, which was founded in Marseille in the early 1960s, has invested to give a new dimension to the corporate side of its Phocaean site. It will have cost some 350,000...

Canua Island will not be making its inaugural season off the coast of Mandelieu-la-Napoule. The 1,750 m2 event barge has failed to obtain the navigation and outfitting permits it needs to operate. The hundred or so employees, including 20 sailors, were made redundant even before setting sail for the first time. With a capacity of...

The 40-page report published by the IACC on 12 June is based on the testimonies of 275 meetings planners worldwide. The association of meetings and events venues, which has some 400 members around the world, has thus been able to identify changes over time in practices, expectations and projections, sometimes with strong...

As one of the hotel groups with the strongest presence in Africa's major cities, the Radisson Group is actively pursuing its development strategy. As part of this growth drive, the hotel group has signed a contract to open seven new hotels in the first half of 2023, adding a total of 1,400 new rooms...

"The most important building to open in Wellington since the Sky Stadium was built twenty years ago": that's how the new Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre is presented. And when you know the importance attached to the local rugby stadium, you can appreciate the significance of the event. The opening of the new...

Following in the footsteps of Vienna, crowned by the new ICCA rankings as the world's leading congress destination, Prague has also been able to capitalise on the return of international events. With 616,000 participants expected to attend nearly 4,000 events in 2022, the Czech capital is playing a leading role. Admittedly, this means that business is only...

With the pandemic behind them, analysts of the world's MICE business can get back to work on their rankings. After the ICCA and its ranking of the world's conference cities, Cvent took advantage of the IMEX trade fair in Frankfurt to unveil its 'top lists' of meeting destinations and meeting hotels...

Employees scattered like jigsaw puzzles, management split up, teams struggling to find each other: the changing world of work, accelerated by the pandemic, is turning companies' habits upside down. In some cases, companies have simply abandoned the idea of having offices and switched to full remote working. This is nothing new, but this...

As MICE activity picks up, Catalonia is 'the' Spanish province of choice for business event organisers. With Barcelona as its standard-bearer, the destination is making the most of its assets, from its Mediterranean coastline and the natural spaces of its hinterland, to its Catalan culture and tasty cuisine, its original activities and its accessibility, in...