MICE

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 in a few months' time, in 2018. It will offer some 3,000 m² of exhibition space and a capacity of 1,500 people for plenary sessions. In all, up to 25 committees...

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

Couples are forming between new entrants and established players: a few days after the announcement that Eurosites will be adopting Bird Office technology, it is MagicStay's turn to be endorsed by two leading names in the events industry. Reed Expositions France and SAFI - organiser of the Maison&Objet trade fairs - have signed an agreement...

We often think we know everything - or almost everything - about these neighbouring countries, so close yet so different. This is true of Spain, whose tourist resources seem so vast as to challenge even the most experienced traveller. Who, for example, can boast of having visited all 44 sites...

Abu Dhabi's Tourism & Culture Authority has set itself the ambitious target of doubling the number of business tourists over the next five years. The destination plans to record a growth rate in the sector of 7% over the next eight years, and even to quadruple the number of business...