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business events news13th July 2015
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Team Fiji promotes MICE
THERE was a departure from
the norm when Tourism Fiji
together with a group of leading
Fijian operators held their Sydney
MICE Roadshow dinner in the
impressive surrounds of the
Queen Victoria Building’s The Tea
Room, last Wednesday.
Instead of the the usual
tabletop presentaons operators
and guests mingled together
prior to dining at tables hosted
by exhibitors who then moved
during each of the courses.
Exhibitors at the event included
Sotel Fiji, Mana Island Resort
& Spa, Captain Cook Cruises
Fiji, Rosies, The Warwick Fiji,
Outrigger Fiji Beach Resort, Blue
Lagoon Cruises, Fiji Airways,
Shangri-La Fijian Resort & Spa,
Sheraton & Wesn Resorts Fiji
and Pacic Desnaons Fiji.
Tourism Fiji is making a
concerted bid to boost its
business events (BEN 17 Jun)
including the recent launch of its
jiconvenonbureau.travel site.
Pictured above at the event
are David McMahon and Carlah
Walton from Tourism Fiji with
Anna Cvjecanin, Fiji Airways.
business events news
13th July 2015
Editor: Jill
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Today’s issue of BENBusiness Events News today
has two pages of news plus a
full page from JITO.
SELFISH,
Scared &
Stupid -
does thisdescribe
you?
It probably
does, and
don’t ghtit, accordingto Dan Gregory and KeiranFlanagan,
co-founders of TheImpossible Institute.
The pair’s new book of the samename (pictured) was featured
atlast week’s Ovations BreakfastSpeaker Showcase at the Pullman
Quay Grand Sydney Harbour.The gathering was mc’d by
ABC Radio and New Inventorspresenter James O’Loghlin,with other
presentations fromKamal Sama whose book WinWinConversations focuses
oncreating resilient leaders.
Next was Matthew Johnstone- a former “classic corporatehigh
achiever, perfectionist andworkaholic” who now helpsothers improve
their mindsets,lifestyles and wellbeing.
Gregory and Flanagan wrappedthings up, urging attendees to“stop
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Hot hotelsUNDER theheading of whatwill they think ofnext comesa
range ofinnovative,odd and
downright clever hotel conceptsthat are trending right now.
No better place to start thanThe Westin Chicago River
North,which has installed a “treadmilldesk” in one of their guest
rooms.
Created by desk manufacturerIMovR, the desk is basically
anadjustable table with a treadmillbase and spot for your laptop-
allowing the user to strollleisurely while on a conferencecall or
nalising a proposal.
Making your next doorneighbour’s loud music a thingof the past,
Peninsula Hotelsis oering guest in-room Beatheadphones, available
at noadditional charge.
And meanwhile, Serbia-basedarchitects Salt and Water,
whospecialise in yacht design havecome up with the FloatingHotel.
For use on smaller,
inland waterways and untappednatural surroundings, the rst
inexpected to be located within afew hours drive from Belgrade.
Consisting of a central hubbuilding, it will have servicessuch
as reception and dining inaddition to the “apartments,”which are
individual catamarans
sleeping up to four people.Each catamaran or suite
detaches from the hub and canoat (motor assisted) to privacyand
seclusion. Jill
ICESAP 2015 datesTHE second annual ICESAP
Conference will take place in
Hong Kong 30 Aug-01 Sep, with
an agenda “conceived to meet
the industry’s demand for an
event that accurately assesses
and addresses the hot topics
aecng the MICE industry in
APAC ght now”.
The rst day will include a
packed program of keynotes,
while day two will oer a series ofin-depth concurrent
workshops
designed to link into the ICESAP
IC&E Cercaon program.
See conference.icesap.org.
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Strategic Meetings Management
(SMM) – The MythTHE term & theory of StrategicMeetings
Management (SMM)originated out of the USA some10 years ago though
has onlyrecently gained a spotlight inAustralia, originally
spearheadedby event planning softwareStarCite (now Lanyon) and
morerecently, Cvent. Those of younot familiar with SMM, it
hasseveral denitions but I’ll quotethis one agreed to by
Meeting
Professionals International(MPI) –
“SMM is a disciplinedapproach to managingenterprise-wide
meeting andevent activities, processes,suppliers and data in order
toachieve measureable businessobjectives that align with
theorganisation’s strategic goals/vision, and deliver value in
theform of quantitative savings, riskmitigation and service
quality”.
Sounds terric doesn’t it. Let’slook at this in layman’s
terms….
Providing you have sucientmeeting volume and if
youconsolidate the entire meetingspend of your organisation
to just a few venues, global hotelgroups and event
suppliers,SMM can save you loads ofmoney – by promising loads
ofvolume to a select few suppliersand screwing them down on
cost(lowest price wins). Somehow,this will help you to achieve
yourbusiness objectives (whateverthey are) and align them withyour
organisation’s strategicgoals (whatever they may be).All the
suppliers your employeesare then forced to use (basedon price),
will provide servicequality to you and any eventrisks will be
reduced.
On a good day, with a fair
wind and the sun at my back, Imight, maybe, perhaps concedethat
consolidating all yourorganisation’s event spend to just one
or two single venues,hotel groups and suppliersmay deliver savings.
But thisoverlooks the fact that you maythen be forced to place
businessinto a venue that is not the rightt. It doesn’t take into
accountspecic event requirements or
the needs of attendees. Asidefrom this and many otherfactors,
here’s the gaping holeand omission in SMM….
By and large, SMM is a storyabout cost savings. Sold on theidea,
procurement managersmay gleefully cheer as they rollout the
deployment of their newSMM program promising that.But they’ve been
hoodwinked.Since their existence andsole focus is based on
saving
costs, this is not dicult. SMMdoes nothing to improve
theeectiveness, quality andoutcomes of meetings. Onlycarefully
crafted meeting designand tactics will deliver ROI,not SMM and
event softwarepromising cost savings. In classicMonty Python
fashion, I emptymy nose in the vicinity of SMMand fart in its
general direction!
GENerating ChangeDirector of Conference Focus, Max Turpinis
sharing his insights on a range of topicswith a regular column in
BEN .
Topics will include new generation eventsand making events
eective and valuable.
If you’d liketo learn more
about howto make your
events fresh,
innovative
and eective,please
contact Max
Turpin at Conference Focus
on 02 9700 7740 or visit the
website at
conferencefocus.com.au.
Associations Forum
kicks of tomorrowTHE Associaons Forum
Naonal Conference will take
place at the Adelaide Convenon
Centre this week, with
Governance New Zealand ceo
Linda Noble appearing as one of
the presenters.
Noble will aend courtesy of
the Associaons Forum and
Tourism New Zealand which is
aiming to raise its prole as a
host desnaon for associaon
conferences and events.TNZ is also exhibing at the
event along with Conferences
and Incenves New Zealand and
eight other NZ business events
partners.
Werner to One&OnlyANDREA Werner has taken up a
new role with One&Only Resortsas its Senior Sales Manager
-
Meengs & Events.
Werner will showcase Kerzner
and One&Only properes around
he globe including Hayman
sland and Wolgan Valley in
Australia as well as Atlans the
Palm and other properes in
Dubai plus resorts in Mexico, the
Bahamas, Maldives, Maurius,
South Africa and Morocco.
She was formerly Stamford
Hotels group director of MICEales (BEN 12 Jun).
New Lumi event appREAL-TIME audience insight
technology provider Lumi has
released Meetoo, claimed to be
the rst app of its kind to provide
real-me polling and messaging
in meengs of 1,000 parcipantsor more anywhere in the world.
The cloud-based soware
aims to end “tradional one-
way meengs with disengaged
aendees” with facilies such as
group chat, moderaon, a Q&A
forum and live reporng.
Free trials at meetoo.io.
Get on your bikeMAMILS (Middle-Aged-Men In
Lycra) will be thrilled at the news
of the rst ever Tour de France
event to be held in Australia.
Secured by Desnaon NSW,
L’Etape Australia by Le Tour De
France will take place in the NSW
Snowy Mountains in Dec 2016.
To be organised by LateralEvent Management and SBS,
he three day tour will take in
indabyne, Perisher and Thredbo
n a route designed to replicate
he “infamous mountain stages”
of the Tour de France with up to
10,000 amateur cyclists taking
part - letapeaustralia.com.
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