Let’s Meet in Cyprus, meetings and events under the sun

The Cyprus Tourism Organisation is preparing full speed for the up coming IMEX 2009 in Frankfurt. Cyprus is a great place for meetings of all kinds. The island offers a variety of Hotels that have all sizes of Meeting facilities with very good technological infrastructure to meet the needs of all kinds of meetings. The small distances and the great climate, especially now when rain came back again and the country is totally green, give the opportunity to the attendees of the meetings events you have to enjoy some time off the business agenda.

Meet in Limassol, Paphos or Agia Napa and in the afternoon visit the coffee shop of a “remote” village like Vasa Koilaniou near Troodos. Enjoy a home made sweet in the square of Omodos and then drive back to your hotel for a cocktail. In the evening you can continue your meeting at the old port of Limassol or in the fishing port of Paphos enjoying some fresh grilled fish.

Meet with the hotels and the DMCs from Cyprus to prepare your meeting plan. They will be there at (stand No C480.)

Hotels:
GRANDRESORT, LIMASSOL
GOLDEN BAY HOTEL
LE MERIDIEN LIMASSOL SPA & RESORT
INTERCONTINENTAL APHRODITE HILLS RESORT

DMCs:
A.D.A. TRAVELSCOPE LTD
HONEYWELL TRAVEL
OM DESTINATION MANAGEMENT
INCEMA TRAVEL
NEON CONFERENCES & INCENTIVES LTD

Ask for a meeting with them here

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Dot Travel - No Clues as to how to move on with a concept

Confusion still reigns over dot-travel via kwout

"Since when are TUI and Thomas Cook standards sustainability of the industry? When is it that they have been moving their business models beyond price, mass tourism and pure transactional webs. [·]Travel was born with the travel 2.0 concept and embracing the idea that content and conversations are most pertinent. If you belong to the travel industry and aim for meaning, 4 seconds ain't a lot of time to be credible and propose value, and surely not achievable today with the scarcity of valid names in the dot com arena. Issue is that the industry still struggles with things like SEM, SEO, domain strategy and post-click marketing - and these are the true barriers of adoption because business wise it makes sense to use .travel. Whole countries like Canada and New Zealand are today true beacons of integrated concepts applied to communication online - would you want to guess what their strategies guided them to use as domains?

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originally uploaded by etourismforum.

In limassol at the etourism forum, the first Lychnos etravel awards were given in a ceremony that made the cloenda of the 2day event hosted by the cyprus tourism organisation and organised by Avantless. For the occasion an international panel discussed issues challenging the travel and tourism industry.

Prizes were only give to 3 of the five categories:

- Online Brand category was offered to CapoBay, for the renovating efforts undergoing in their strategy and online presence
- Destination Product/Theme was given to the Short Escapes program of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation for efforts in stimulating internal tourism deman and creating a platform for whole sector to benefit from
- Promotion to Cyprus was attributed to best content site driving most inquiries and visits to Cyprus, the Visit Europe site which is maintained by the emarketing team of the Cyprus Tourism Organisation.

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People moving people, achieving our endeavours in 2009

Our appeal for 2009 may be unconventional, simplistic but certainly life-changing.

We are now more than ever, exposed to unpredictability and despite recent events, we believe that embracing change is still a remedy for moving ahead with our business challenges and the imposed financial limitations to growth.

For the occasion we have created the emergence 'lending team’ through Kiva, which enables entrepreneurs to fund ideas and initiatives to sustain small businesses globally. This is a unique opportunity for us to use Micro-lending as a collaborative effort to empower people to execute life-changing projects in a sustainable way.

Time after time we are witnesses of the surprising and magical potentialities of being interconnected and we hope that with the gesture, we will individually also be answering to the need of restoring confidence for moving ahead in 2009.