Industry News | The Planner - Part 485

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Green cheers!

The Event Greening Forum (EGF) hosted its inaugural Conference on 18 February 2013. It was a well-attended event, attracting people from across the Southern African events industry. Based on its success, the conference will become an annual fixture...

First class, first choice

Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group recently received the highly coveted title of Best Business Hotel Brand in Asia-Pacific plus six other titles at the 2012 Business Traveller Asia-Pacific’s 21st...

SA MICE industry is booming

It was way back when Sir Winston Churchill coined the phrase It is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war. Whether he had a premonition regarding the need for constant face-to-face dialogue in one form or another is unclear. What is clear is the...

Corporate MICE money takes centre stage

It was a Focus Group worthy of holding the attention of the participants. Some deep-rooted anomalies were brought to the fore as the surface was scratched in a better understanding of where the MICE budget allocation is somewhat of a blur to the...

Top of the ‘foodie’ pops

The forum company came out tops in the International category for the annual ACE awards held in Las Vegas yesterday. Managing Director of the forum company, Glynis Hyslop was there to receive the award which was presented at the general session of...

Position paper to pin-point Mice money

The MICE industry needs to come to grips with the various methods in which payments are made for services rendered to end-users so says the MICE Academy who are holding their 3rd MICE Focus Group on the 15th March at the 5 star Gallagher Convention...

Justin Cohen: The Power of Story

Justin Cohen, part of the Unique Speaker Bureau (USB), is one of the greatest story tellers around. Stories are a fabulous way to to bring corporate values alive. In most organisations values are forgotten almost as soon as they’re created,...

Durban delights

KwaZulu Natals leading dcor, design and lifestyle exhibition, Decorex Durban, is not only the ideal opportunity to catch up on the latest dcor and design trends, its also set to be a great day out with friends and family. Decorex Durban kicks off...

The Jozi experience

Teaming with close to 30 Joburg-based tourism industry stakeholders who have generously sponsored fabulous prizes, and in collaboration with Kaya FM as a media partner, the next phase of the fun Jozi, Discover Your Own Backyard Campaign takes to...

The power of one

The Unique Speaker Bureau (USB) introduces the fabulous Orchestrate, team building with a difference.Orchestrate is probably the most powerful demonstration of how individual incompetence in every team member can be turned around completely –...