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The banning of conferences and exhibitions is one extreme measure included in plans by governments to combat the tragedy of a human pandemic of H5NI bird flu, should it come.
According to a report by the Consumer Association the current Asian strain of the virus has killed half of the 110 people infected and has the potential to kill “at least 50,000” in the UK.
Those organisers travelling to Asia are being advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to:-
Organisers running events overseas are advised to pass the above to all delegates and staff.
Those running international events where their delegates’ profile might be the same as readers of the Daily Telegraph might be interested in some of the results of the newspaper’s annual awards reflecting its readers’ travel likes and dislikes, all listed below, in order.
Disappointingly the Daily Telegraph does not give awards for the most disappointing foreign cities, or hotels.
Bad publicity continues to dog Dubai, for some a collection of self-styled nine-star hotels on a 24/7 building site.
A recent exposé in the Daily Telegraph claims that as many as 6000 very young boys, some as young as 3 years old, are illegally enslaved by the organisers of camel races in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The report also claimed that a large proportion of the boys were sexually abused, starved to make them light, beaten and tortured, and that they were trafficked mostly from Pakistan and Bangladesh. To conceal the illegal use and abuse of children, and not alienate the international community photography at race-tracks, such as the one just outside Dubai popular with UK and USA incentive travel organisers, is strictly forbidden.
A few months ago a British osteopath was detained for seven weeks in a Dubai prison – a stark contrast to the nine star properties – because traces of the popular painkiller codeine, illegal in Dubai, were found in her blood.
The Dubai authorities decided not to try her for “drug possession” after an outcry in the British press.
The high-tech Expo XX1 conference and exhibition centre opened in May offering foyer space for receptions of up to 400, a conference room for up to 1,000 theatre style and a space for 500 theatre-style divisible into 3 rooms for around 150.
The centre is located at Gustav Mahlerlaan 18, in the new and still developing financial area 3-4 miles south of Amsterdam central, a short walk from Station Zuid WTC and on tramline 5.
Tel: ++ 31 (20) 646 6480
Visit: www.expoxxi.nl
A new all business class service between Stansted and New York is being launched November 2 by Maxjet.
Prices start at £680 one way (inclusive taxes) and one flight a day leaves Stansted at 10.00 and New York (JFK) at 18.30, both times local.
Tel: 0800 023 4300
Visit: www.MAXjet.com
Eurostar continues to undercut the cheap airlines to parts of France and Belgium with trains that run mostly to time and that connect city centre to city centre, rather than suburb to suburb.
A current promotion with the Daily Telegraph offers business travellers return fares from London Waterloo for two or more travelling together from £29 for Paris and Brussels and £27 for Lille, Monday to Thursday. The £29 fare to Brussels also includes travel to any other Belgian city and the offer runs till December 20. Travel Friday to Sunday costs £10 more for Lille and Brussels and £20 more for Paris.
Meanwhile Eurostar have claimed that the impact of the 400,000 reduction in leisure travellers due to the London bombings has been significantly cushioned by the rise in the number of business travellers, who pay more.
www.eurostar.com/telegraph
Those air travellers – surely a curmundgeonly minority? – who hate the idea of sitting next to someone conducting their exciting business or personal lives on their mobile phones should perhaps not book flights with Portuguese airline TAP Air or British carrier Bmi.
Both companies have announced trials in 2006 of in-flight use of mobile phones by passengers, using new technology that they say will not interfere with aircraft navigation and control systems.
Porto Convention Bureau is a not-for-profit organisation specialising in promoting Porto and Northern Portugal as a destination for congresses, conferences, seminars, events and incentive travel.
The Porto Convention Bureau provides a wealth of information and advice, namely facilities, natural resources and professional partners.
We offer our services free of charge to any national and international organisers of meetings, conventions and incentives.
The Porto Convention Bureau gathers over 120 members such as hotels, congress and conference centres, DMC’s PCO’s transport companies and support services and plays a key role in giving an international reputation to Porto and Northern Portugal as a vintage destination.
Porto Convention & Visitors Bureau
Av. Inferior à Ponte D.Luis 1, 53-1° andar
4050-074 Porto – Portugal
ph: +351 223 326 751 – fx: +351 223 326 752
E-mail: rkoehler@portocvb.com – www.portocvb.com
The Society of Event Organisers (SEO) has launched a one-day in-house presentation, UNDERSTANDING EVENT ORGANISATION, aimed at giving venue sales, marketing and operations staff a full appreciation of the job their organiser clients do, to build rapport and improve working relationships.
Other training for venues offered by the SEO includes a public or in-house course on MARKETING YOUR VENUE FOR EVENTS.
Tel: 01767 316255 Fax: 01767 316430
A 100-word announcement costs from £95 in this section of International Event Organisers Update (IEOU) and reaches 12,000 organisers.
To download full details and a booking form visit www.eou.org.uk Alternatively call (44) 1767 316255 or fax to (44) 1767 316430.
For more information please contact the organisers directly. You are advised to check that events are appropriate to your needs and still running before finalising travel plans.
14-17 LONDON World Travel Market exhibition
www.wtmlondon.com
29-1 Dec BARCELONA EIBTM exhibition
www.eibtm.com
21-23 LONDON CONFEX exhibition
Tel: 0207 921 8177
Visit: www.international-confex.com
30-1 June FRANKFURT IMEX exhibition
www.imex-frankfurt.com
31-3 August PORTO CCO – Overseas Events Seminar with certificate
www.seoevent.co.uk
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