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Thursday, May 27, 2010

 
Corrida à Excelência ... a uma certa distância ...
Parte I - Lisboa em oitavo lugar no ‘ranking’ da ICCA

AmbiturOnline . 18Maio2010 - Lisboa subiu dois lugares no top 10 mundial das cidades mais solicitadas para acolher congressos associativos internacionais em 2009, alcançando o oitavo lugar, com base em dados divulgados pela ICCA – International Congress & Convention Association.
As cidades concorrentes como Madrid, Londres, Bruxelas e Roma ficaram fora desta lista.
Lisboa surge na lista a par da cidade de Amsterdão, que acolheu, também, 98 congressos, sendo que os “dez mais” encerram com a capital da China: Pequim.
Viena encabeça a lista, com 160 eventos, seguida por Barcelona (135), Paris (131), Berlim (129), Singapura (119), Copenhaga (103) e Estocolmo (102).

O Turismo de Negócios (Meeting Industry) é o segundo produto turístico mais importante para Lisboa, cabendo-lhe, este ano, um montante de 1,076.5 milhões de euros, ou seja 29 por cento do orçamento do Turismo de Lisboa, antecedido apenas pelo City Breaks.
TEXTO ORIGINAL EM INGLÊS

Top10 Meeting World Destinations: USA holds on Number 1 for 7 consecutive years
Portugal 17th and Lisbon 8th place ex aequo with Amsterdam


By eTN Staff Writer | May 19, 2010
This year, the ICCA Data researchers have identified 8,294 events which took place in 2009, 800 events more than were identified last year. Partly this reflects the strength of the association meetings market despite the economic downturn; partly it is thanks to a record number of ICCA members sending us their calendar information to help identify new events.

As has been the case since 2004, the US and Germany are the number one and two countries respectively measured by the number of international meetings organized in 2009. The US is widening its gap with Germany with 32 events, compared to the 2008 figures. Spain remains third. Italy jumps from 6th to 4th place with an increase of 54 events compared to 2008, and the United Kingdom remains 5th. China-PR and Austria (which shares 10th place with The Netherlands) are newcomers in the top 10.

For the fifth year in a row, Vienna is the most popular city with an increase of 21 meetings over 2008. Barcelona jumped from 3rd to 2nd place, and Paris, who shared 1st place with Vienna last year, is now 3rd. The only newcomer in the top 20 is Madrid, at 13th place.

The ICCA rankings cover meetings organized by international associations, which take place on a regular basis and which rotate between a minimum of three countries. The data represents a "snapshot" of qualifying events in the ICCA Association Database as sampled on May 11, 2010. ICCA's Association Database is designed as a sales and marketing resource for its members to target future international association meetings, which is why it does not include one-off events or those which do not move between locations.

Top 10 Countries 2009:
1 – US: 595 international events
2 – Germany: 458
3 – Spain: 360
4 – Italy: 350
5 – UK: 345
6 – France: 341
7 – Brazil: 293
8 – Japan: 257
9 – China PR: 245
10 – Austria & Netherlands: 236 each

...

17 - Portugal 168 events



Top 5 Cities 2009:

1 - Vienna (with 168 events, for the fifth consecuive year)

2 - Barcelona (135 events)

3 - Paris (131 events)

4 - Berlin (129 events)

5 - Singapore (119 events)

...

8 - Lisbon & Amsterdam (with 98 events each - in Portugal 70 ICCA events were held outside of Lisbon)

13 - Madrid & Budapest (with 87 events each)



Source: iccaworld.com

ICCA publishes country and city rankings 2009
U.S.A. and Vienna still most popular association meeting destinations

The ICCA rankings cover meetings organised by international associations which take place on a regular basis and which rotate between a minimum of three countries. The data represents a "snapshot" of qualifying events in the ICCA Association Database as sampled on 11 May 2010. ICCA's Association Database is designed as a sales and marketing resource for its members to target future international association meetings, which is why it does not include one-off events or those which do not move between locations.

This year (2009) the ICCA Data researchers have identified 8,294 events which took place in 2009, 800 events more than were identified last year. Partly this reflects the strength of the association meetings market despite the economic downturn; partly it is thanks to a record number of ICCA members sending us their calendar information to help identify new events.


Part II - World Travel Awards European Nominees Unveiled
May 18, 2010 eTN.com

Forimmediaterelease.net - London, 18 May 2010- Race to be the Best
The World Travel Awards Europe Gala Ceremony is taking place in October - but the fight is just beginning to make it on to the coveted winners’ platform.

Described as the ultimate achievement for any European company, more than 1,000 travel brands are competing to be the best. Voting has opened and nominees are now campaigning hard with agents and industry executives to win support.

Regional winners will go forward to compete in the World Travel Awards 2010 Grand Final in London, when they will be up against some of the finest travel operators in the world, consistently demonstrating excellence in every aspect of their business.

World Travel Awards, now in its 17th year, is a major driver of supreme quality standards within the global travel and tourism industry, encouraging excellence in everything from product innovation, creativity and staff training to customer service and overall performance

The European nominees are among 5,000 nominated companies, spread across more than 1,000 categories, including airlines, cruise companies, destinations, resorts and hotels in over 160 countries.
Graham E. Cooke, Founder and President, World Travel Awards, said: “We have been overwhelmed with the tremendous response to self nominations this year, which have grown a phenomenal 50 per cent on 2009."

Europe in particular is always highly contested. After a rigorous selection procedure, successful nominees must now continue to demonstrate what exactly it is that sets them apart from the rest.
“Nominees will now focus on a hard-fought campaign, canvassing industry professionals for their support. Success at World Travel Awards is proven to bring considerable honours, prestige and significant commercial benefits so let battle commence!!”

Europcar, Adam&Eve Hotels, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Virgin Atlantic Airways were amongst companies who triumphed during the World Travel Awards European regional ceremony last year.
In the Europe categories, Lufthansa won the award for Europe’s Leading Airline and Marriott Hotels Resorts&Suites took the coveted title of Europe’s Leading Hotel Brand.
Meanwhile Europe’s Leading Destination went to Lisbon, Portugal. Carlson Wagonlit Travel was also successful, presented with Europe’s Leading Travel Management Company while Viajes Iberia won the title of Europe’s Leading Travel Agency.(((D-Viagem in Portugal))).
Virgin Atlantic Airways won Europe’s Leading Marketing Campaign for their ’25 Years Still Red Hot’ campaign.
A number of national category awards were also presented throughout the evening.

Winners of this years Europe Ceremony will be announced at the the Rixos Premium Belek, located in Antalya, Turkey – the pearl of the Mediterranean on Friday 1 October.
The exclusive-all Inclusive luxury beach resort guarantees the very highest standards and has resulted in the resort being nominated for Europe's Leading Resort, Turkey's Leading Beach Resort and Leading Hotel in this year’s World Travel Awards.
To vote online log on to: www.worldtravelawards.com/vote
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Click here for the complete list of World Travel Awards 2010 European nominees
Click here for the World Travel Awards Logo

Notes to Editors:
About World Travel Awards
The World Travel Awards was launched in 1993 to acknowledge and recognise excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry.

Now celebrating its 17th Anniversary, the awards is regarded as the very highest achievement that a travel product could ever hope to receive.

Votes are cast by 183,000 travel professionals which include travel agencies, tour and transport companies and tourism organizations in over 160 countries across the globe.
Votes are cast globally by fellow industry professionals in over 1,000 different categories.
Attended by senior executives from major travel companies, operators and destinations, WTA events are universally respected as providing established, top level networking opportunities, regionally and globally.

The World Travel Award’s official list of worldwide media partners includes: BBC World News, eTurboNews, Breaking Travel News, CNBC Arabiya, Khaleej Times, Trav Talk, Trade Arabia, TTN, L'Agenzia di Viaggi, Travel Daily News International, Focus on Travel News, New Focus Travel Magazine, Tourism Review, JAX FAX, Travel&Leisure, Travel&Leisure Golf, Xenios&Xenios World.

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