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Vancouver Destination Film Tourism Vancouver has unveiled our new destination film. Developed to show Vancouver's spectacular natural beauty as well as its diversity, seasonality, arts, sports, attractions, accessibility and fun. The piece is available for our local hosts to use as a promotional tool during your bid presentation, on your conference website or at your conference prior to Vancouver's. The four-minute film can be viewed in full-screen at www.tourismvancouver.com
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As part of the BestCities Global Alliance, Vancouver, delivers the world's best service experience for meeting planners and is recognized globally for its innovative approach in setting the highest professional standards and best practices for the meetings and convention industry.
BestCities represents eight of the world's best cities - Cape Town, Copenhagen, Dubai, Edinburgh, Melbourne, San Juan, Singapore, and Vancouver.
Working with BestCities partners, clients know what to expect. Our unique data, information and best practice exchange process will save valuable time beginning with the initial convention planning stages.
All services are free of charge and include:
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BC Event Management - a member of Tourism Vancouver - recently walked away with an award and a nomination at the BizBash Event Awards held February in Toronto. BCEM was a finalist for Best Fresh Idea and won the award for Best Use of Technology. Both these honours were for the PCMA Welcoming Reception held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre last year.
The award winning video presentation, on a 6,000 square foot screen, took guests on a cross country tour. Part of the technical achievement involved a huge screen quickly dropping to the ground to reveal a large indoor pyrotechnics display followed by a shower of pyro-confetti from above. For further details contact darren@bceventmanagement.com. | ||||||||||||
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Tim Sanders, a former a senior level executive at Yahoo, and now on the speaker circuit, recently spoke at the Opening General Session at the Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference (MPI PEC) in Houston, attended by Tourism Vancouver's Wendy Surkan and Shannon Donegani.
The topic of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) was a running theme throughout the general session, and it was the topic of keynote speaker Sanders' speech. Sanders, author of the upcoming book, How to Save the World at Work, (available September 2008) spoke about the "Responsibility Revolution" and the need for corporations to embrace CSR in order to attract young talent and succeed. He also shared examples of how meetings, and those responsible for planning them, have changed companies' organizational cultures and, in some cases, the world. Visit Tim's weblog at www.savetheworldatwork.com or check other Green Meeting ideas at:
The Dirty Dozen Rules Of Green Meetings |
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June 2009 World Association for Cooperative Education 300 attendees www.waceinc.org
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Bard on the Beach - After a 100% sold out season in 2007, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival will extend the run of the Mainstage season for an additional week in 2008. New Festival dates are May 29 to September 27, 2008.
Western Canada's largest professional Shakespeare company, Bard on the Beach presents its festival in Kitsilano's Vanier Park adjacent to Vancouver's downtown core. The productions are staged in open-ended tents on the waterfront against a spectacular backdrop of mountains, sea and sky. Tickets go on sale March 17th. The performance schedule, information & tickets can be found on the Bard website at www.bardonthebeach.org. |
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March 20: Dori Jensen, Sales Manager, Washington DC Region will be attending Professional Convention Management Association's (PCMA) Spring Happy Hour Networking Event in Alexandria, VA.
March 25: Bronwyn Slade, Sales Manager, Western US, and members from Fairmont and the Hyatt Regency will be exhibiting in the Vancouver booth at the 8th Annual Meetings Industry Council (MIC) of Colorado Educational Conference and Tradeshow which will be held at the Adam's Mark in Denver. Information may be obtained at www.mic-colorado.org. Sales calls to Association and corporate meeting planners in the Denver area will be conducted the remainder of the week.
March 26: Dori Jensen, along with the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) and its partners, will be representing Vancouver in a presentation about Canada to PlanNet, an Association Management Company, and their Account Executives. The CTC will be hosting the presentation as well as a cocktail reception.
April 2 & 3: Jacqueline Benear & Dori Jensen, the sales team for the Washington DC market will be attending the PCMA Foundation Dinner at the Washington Hilton. This black tie event draws over 2,000 industry professionals and recognizes and awards those who have contributed to the success of our hospitality and meetings industry. On April 3rd Jackie and Dori along with eight Tourism Vancouver partners will be exhibiting at ASAE Springtime Tradeshow held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. This is the largest Association Tradeshow in the industry with over 2300 qualified customers in attendance from associations, corporations and government agencies.
April 19 - 21: Dorte Ottesen, International Sales Manager will be a panelist at the ICCA Association Expert Seminar in Frankfurt, Germany. The seminar brings together 20 international association executives and 40 international suppliers (ICCA members) to share information and experiences, and to update themselves on the latest trends and ideas relating to international association conferences.
April 22 - 24: Tourism Vancouver's International Team, Richard Yore and Dorte Ottesen, will be attending the IMEX tradeshow in Frankfurt Germany. IMEX is the essential worldwide exhibition for meetings and incentive travel. More than 3,000 hosted buyers from at least 50 world markets and more than 3,500 exhibitors are expected to participate in the trade show. |
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