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The Eastside Rooms Partners with Watterston Associates

Prestige Events Magazine

The Eastside Rooms is continuing to target domestic and international association meetings through a partnership with industry expert Julie Watterston from Watterston Associates. They have a great team and a really good product that association meeting organisers will find easy to work within.

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MPI and mia rejoin BVEP to strengthen industry voice & collaboration

Event Industry News

The Business Visits & Events Partnership (BVEP) has announced that both the Meetings Industry Association (mia) and Meetings Professionals International UK & Ireland (MPI) have re-joined the partnership as full members. The association has more than 70 chapters and clubs across 75 countries.

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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference

The MICE

I interviewed Bettina Mumenthaler, Head of the Switzerland Convention & Incentive Bureau UK/Ireland about Switzerland as a MICE destination. Bern is the Swiss capital; hence, government business, association meetings, banking and consulting are the core business. The SCIB has a presence in 14 markets.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Every day in beekeeping is a school day,” Philip McCabe, president of Apimondia and a third-generation beekeeper, said from his home in Drogheda, Ireland. (Apimondia 2017 will be held in Istanbul.) You’ll talk to somebody, or you’ll speak with somebody, or you’ll see something. Earn one hour of CEU credit.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As Time to Counterattack.

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