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Dates19-21 November 2004
Venue: Athinais Conference Center, Athens, Greece
UNDER THE AEGIS OF
INTRODUCTION
The meetings industry is a highly tailored sector of business travel, involving corporate and association conferences, meetings and incentives. Operating year-round, the meetings industry makes a major contribution to society and business through research, education and cultural understanding. It is high yielding and sustainable and it helps to regenerate urban and resort areas and stimulates inward investment and export earnings. The growth of the global meetings industry is predicted to be faster than any other sector to the year 2010.
AIM
The Conference is aimed at providing an international forum for destination and venue executives, professional conference and event organisers, meeting planners, destination management companies, meeting industry services and equipment suppliers, national and local organizations involved in the development of conference and incentive tourism. The event will serve to demonstrate to a wide audience the key role that the sector will occupy in the tourism industry in the coming years and will provide a wealth of knowledge, experience and ideas.
The Conference will provide a greater understanding of key issues for the meeting industry, and provide solutions for those with an interest in the sectorthrough top quality speakers and presentations from industry leaders and researchers. Delegates will be able to challenge their own performances in attracting meetings and incentives, find new partners or reinforce ties with established clients and suppliers, identify gaps in knowledge and receive direction to fill those gaps while being able to network at an international level.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference will be English. There will be simultaneous interpretation to/from Greek.
SPONSORS
P.C. Podimatas Audiovisuals SA
Communication SA – Interpretation Services
COMMUNICATION SPONSORS
– TravelDailyNews – Greek Edition
– TravelDailyNews – International Edition
Theodore is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of TravelDailyNews Media Network; his responsibilities include business development and planning for TravelDailyNews long-term opportunities.
