Padraic Gilligan
Padraic Gilligan is Managing Partner at SoolNua Marketing, a boutique consultancy offering marketing, training and strategy for MICE for destinations, venues and hotels. He blogs weekly on destinations and matters of interest to the Meetings Industry at Padraicino
Fed up with boring, beige and bland? Try these venues from the Sharing Economy
We are witnessing on a daily basis how rapidly and comprehensively Airbnb and Uber are changing the meetings industry. For instance, at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona this year, organisers estimate that as many as 30% of the 100,000 attendees stayed at Airbnb or similar non-hotel solutions.
Best Airport Venues for Meetings & Events
GoToMeeting, Skype, Google Hangouts, Whatsapp keep us hyper-connected. However, they haven’t managed to eliminate our primordial need for Face-2-Face encounters. The more we connect, it seems, the more we want to be connected and the ultimate fulfillment of that desire is the reassuring comfort of a handshake or a hug given in a real place with real people in real time.
10 Things Venues Hate About Event Planners
Here are 10 things that we often do as #eventprofs that drive our venue partners super-crazy.
No venue? No problem! How temporary structures help your event happen
In cities like Paris, Vienna and Barcelona event organisers are spoiled for choice. When it comes to venues, there’s ready availability of everything from historic palaces to industrial warehouses. But what do you do when the chosen destination doesn’t have suitable venues at all?
Private Venues to Bewitch and Beguile your Attendees
EventMB has already highlighted the impact of cool and unusual venues like art galleries, museums and other public buildings on event outcomes. But how cool and unusual would it be to host your events in private locations, not available to the general public at all?