zkipster

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

For work, it would have to be the trip to Portugal when I first met the development team in person, as we work remotely. I’ve already made four work trips to Portugal, and as I love to travel I’ll often combine them with a family road trip. Personally, it would be the birth of my son.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 15, 2021

The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has reacted to the Prime Minister’s announcement that the government’s move to Step 4 of its roadmap will be delayed until 19 July at the earliest.

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zkipster

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Born and raised in Portugal, Décio speaks Portuguese, Spanish, English and some French, and splits his time between his hometown of Coimbra, Figueira da Foz and soon the Algarve. Next I joined a restaurant reservations startup – the company was actually based in Zurich, where zkipster was founded, though I worked from Portugal.”

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 13, 2024

Take a further trip for more reward in spring 2024 With travel continuing to open up and return to natural form after years of Covid, the world is once again an oyster for meeting professionals looking for an international incentive trip or executive retreat that will be memorable and expand geographical and cultural horizons of attendees.

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zkipster

MAY 13, 2022

He speaks Portuguese and English and is based in his hometown of Cesar, Northern Portugal, a calm village that he likes for its proximity both to the cities of Porto and Aveiro, and the sea and mountains. Marcelo, tell us about your career before you arrived at zkipster. “I

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2023

Meet three brand new hotels redefining what it means to authentically experience a destination and luxury hospitality together. The experience offered at these locations in Portugal, Tel Aviv or Singapore will leave you and your guests with an entirely new understanding of what hospitality can be, and just how good life can get.

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zkipster

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Paulo Silva is a senior frontend engineer based in Coimbra, Portugal. ” The post Meet the Team: Paulo Silva, Senior Frontend Engineer appeared first on zkipster - Online Event Management Software For Event Planners. He speaks Portuguese and English and has worked at zkipster since early 2015.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 10, 2019

The Meetings Show, as part of the Centaur Media Travel & Meetings business, has entered into a definitive agreement for acquisition by Northstar Travel Group. The Meetings Show 2019 will take place on Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 June at Olympia London, with more than 4,500 meeting and event professionals expected to attend.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 20, 2020

Whilst we are London based and the majority of our work is in the city we can provide services across the UK as required by our clients and also overseas in the USA, Spain, Portugal, Thailand, UAE and more.

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Event Industry News

MAY 6, 2020

More than 12,500 professionals from the event and hospitality industry gathered virtually to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID) on Tuesday April 14, 2020 in an attempt to break the record for the largest audience at a live-stream conference. Now is the time to work smarter, not harder. Influencer marketing helps you.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Leff also worked in leading roles with Gaylord Hotels and Meet Minneapolis, and he also has worked with Hilton Minneapolis, the Hiltons of Chicago and Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport. She also worked at Arthroscopy Association of North, where she most recently worked as a meeting planner. Andre Aparicio, Alejandra Vela and Omar Sanchez.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 8, 2017

ICCA, the International Congress and Convention Association, has released its annual rankings of top meeting cities and countries , and there have been quite of a few shake-ups among the top 10 meeting destinations. Top Meeting Cities. Paris has landed at the top spot with 196 meetings, one more than No. Buenos Aires.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 1, 2022

The last two years have been a massive challenge for the meetings industry, and few segments have suffered as much as destination management companies. Ovation’s DMCs and DMC partners had been riding a wave of new bookings in Europe this year, particularly in France, Germany, and Portugal, but the landscape has changed.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2023

Ecija’s professional relationship with Hilton Hotels has also included general manager roles throughout Europe, including Hilton ViIlamoura As Cascatas Golf Resort & Spa in Portugal, Hilton Diagonal Mar Barcelona, Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok, DoubleTree by Hilton Sukhumvit Bangkok and Hilton Sao Paulo Morumbi.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Belgium (13 percent) and Portugal (14 percent) rounded out the bottom-three. The least diverse event types were meetings and networking (71 percent male versus 29 percent female) and conferences and conventions (68 percent male versus 32 percent female). Right behind Kenya were Mexico (39 percent) and the United States (35 percent).

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

More than 150,000 participants attended the virtual and hybrid events powered by ExpoPlatform in the last five months, resulting in 50,000 video meeting requests.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Internal travel was defined as “meetings with colleagues or working at other company office locations,” while external travel examples are trips for sales meetings and conference travel. Airports, United Beefs Up and Business Travel Grows appeared first on Smart Meetings. Go to GBTA to see full results.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Before deciding where to meet next, why not think out of the binder? Post-meeting surveys and other tried-and-true analyses certainly have their place, but site decisions can almost always benefit from a little creative input. The post Top Travel Ideas for 2018, Survey Says appeared first on Smart Meetings. Top US Destinations.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Delight has extensive experience in the show of the shadow theatre, and now has performances all over the world (Ukraine, Germany, China, Kuwait, France, Qatar, Portugal) and it is only the beginning of our creative take-off in a show of shadows. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Conferences. Exhibitions. Event Tech.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 11, 2021

Istanbul Innovation Days has established itself as a meeting place for edge-thinkers and doers with leaders from government, academia, the arts, politics, science, and technology. Web Summit will return to an in-person conference in November 2021, gathering 70,000+ attendees in Lisbon, Portugal.

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The Planner's Lounge

MARCH 8, 2022

At least one day per week is also scheduled for in-person meetings. I enjoy meeting up with friends for small at-home entertaining, or for brunch or cocktails. My favorite travel spots are in Europe but I also intend to visit Cuba, Argentina, Greece, India, and Portugal, within the next few years.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2018

During a wide-ranging discourse at a private dinner at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas for meetings journalists in Las Vegas—in conjunction with IMEX America 2018 —Steve Heitzner, Americas chief sales and marketing officer for Marriott International , made several key points.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

13, Team San Jose in California celebrated the first of what it hopes will be many Michelin-starred restaurants, at Adega in the heart of Little Portugal. The team brought in three other Michelin-rated chefs from New York and Portugal to cook with chef-owner Jessica Carreira and chef David Costa for some 50 food writers and dignitaries.

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Eventscase Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The ‘eventoplus Awards’ highlights top performers in the events and meetings sector in Spain and Portugal. It is a meeting point and forum to reflect on sustainable tourism and the different transformations that we can expect in this specific segment of the events industry. Eventoplus Awards. Event Organisers Summit.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 13, 2017

South Africa, Colombia and Portugal are just a few of the trending destinations in the 2017 Virtuoso Luxe Report. South Africa’s Tswalu Kalahari and Six Senses Douro Valley in Portugal are two of the stellar luxury hotel and resort options in these emerging destinations. Luxury Travel in Emerging Destinations.

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Bizzabo

JULY 12, 2019

It's the capital of Portugal and it’s the largest metropolitan area of the country with nearly three million people calling it home. Whether you plan to host a business meeting, small wedding reception, or international conference, one of the spaces listed below will suit your needs perfectly. Source: Go Discover Portugal.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 22, 2017

Other winners: Best Achievement in Design: Six Senses Douro Valley , Lamego, Portugal. The post ‘Best of the Best’ Hotels Named for 2017 appeared first on Smart Meetings. Norcia is the nexus of Italian black truffle country, and the hotel’s Ristorante Vespasia is Michelin starred. Best Bar: Bar Hemingway—Ritz Paris , Paris.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. Why go from Portugal to North Carolina’s eighth-most-populous city? They fall across the spectrum.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Established in the actual bank vault, the Palladio Room offers the perfect space for private meetings and conference calls, its beautiful wallpaper, fabulous mirrors and the print of the original Buckingham Palace making this a one of its kind experience.

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Event Farm

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s anything from making calls or digging through the funniest and latest unicorn tchotchke on the internet to thinking through the strategy of our next meeting or talking with partners about our activation at the next ad industry event. It’s a little bit of everything and a lot of logistics. How has using Event Farm made your life easier?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 13, 2022

More meetings industry associations have been moving into Europe, as evidenced by the latest gatherings by several leading organizations around the world. See the list of Smart Meetings Experiences planned for the rest of the year. The post The International Expansion of Industry Associations appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Those three are Event Tech Live in London , EUBEA World Festival , which this year took place in Coimbra in Portugal and IBTM World in Barcelona. IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! Details of my session at IBTM World. What do you think?

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Severine Bennet agreed to share, in her own words, how International Society of Political Psychology invested in supporting families at the association’s 2019 Annual Meeting. Our meeting was held in Lisbon, Portugal, which is considered one of the safest countries and has a variety of family-friendly activities and sites to see.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Web Summit, an internet tech conference held in Portugal, has seen exponential growth since it launched as a meetup for 400 tech investors in 2010. Expected to attract more than 50,000 attendees this November, the growing conference designed to connect startups with investors is no match for the planner behind it all.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 3, 2018

These facilities are particularly useful to meeting and event planners, specifically in the following scenarios: 1. Workbar provides cozy coworking spaces, meeting rooms, social meetups and educational workshops in the Greater Boston area (both urban and suburban). Traveling. Launching a new business. Working independently.

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EventSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Actually, Morgan hired me on the phone before even meeting me! Their beautiful destination wedding was held at the historic Pestana Palace Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal, which offered a unique & cultural experience for their North American guests. Photos Courtesy of Will Reid Photography. It was meant to be.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 18, 2019

Date and Location: November 4 - 7 in Lisbon, Portugal. Each year, attendees gather in Lisbon, Portugal to learn where the futures of SaaS, startups, and general technologies lie. Attendees will also get to take part in hands-on workshops and meet others in the industry. Source: Forbes. High praise! Source: InsightSquared.

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