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MEETINGS MANAGEMENTSECTOR MEETINGMiranda Ioannou & Jurriaen Sleijster
48th ICCA Congress & Exhibition
Florence - Italy
Sunday 8 November 2009
09:00 - 10:00h
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Agenda
1. Welcome to all
2. General Sector Matters• Welcome to new members
• Call for topics for future meetings
3. ICCA Board meeting feedback
4. Elections
5. MAG report
6. ICCA Congress at a glance
7. Wrap up & conclusion
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Welcome to all
1. Welcome to all
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General Sector Matters
• Welcome to new MM members 2009 (27!)AP Alpcord Network Travel India
AP EZpmp Inc. Rep. Korea
AP Global Conf. & Exhib. India
AP HighTeam Comm. China-P.R.
AP ICE Australia Australia
AP Zhejiang CYTS Int’l Travel China-P.R.
EU About Events Spain
EU Absolute Groups & Inc. Spain
EU Artion Conf. & Events Greece
EU Confab Consulting UK
EU Dubrovnik Travel DMC Croatia
EU Iceland Congress Iceland
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General Sector MattersEU In Touch A/S Denmark
EU Keynote PCO Ireland
EU Miross Travel Serbia
EU myDMC GmbH Germany
EU Thema Team Ltd. Greece
LA Exclusive South America Argentina
LA Organizacion Guatemala
LA Uniline Exhibtions S.A. Argentina
MEA Orchid Tours Morocco
MEA Scatterling Conf. & Events South Africa
MEA Turners Conferences South Africa
MEA Vent Nouveau Lebanon
NA ABTS Conv. Serv. USA
NA Gateways International Canada
NA Prof. en Conv. Monterrey Mexico
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General Sector Matters
• Call for topics for future meetings
What would you like to see discussed
at future meetings?
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ICCA Board Meeting Feedback
• ICCA BOD feedback
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-Record breaking Congress
- 960-980 estimated after walk-ups and no-shows
- At least 67-68 countries
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- ICCA is doing well this financial year
- On target to hit most business objectives
-On target to achieve budgeted bottom linefinancial surplus
- BOD and staff say a big thank you to allmembers for paying so promptly, forsigning up for business opportunities, forattending major ICCA events
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- Latest research confirms thatinternational association sector is still verystable
- ICCA is promoting heavily the importanceof membership as the most cost-effectiveway to interact and win business
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-BOD working on 5 year timescale –building new Financial Projection Model
- Major review of Articles and By-laws,implications of big-picture shifts ineconomic, societal, technologicalenvironments
- Will be making sure our governance andbusiness models are able to takeadvantage of the changes that are coming
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-More communicating with members to find outindividual needs, including
- If new client-supplier workshops are needed
- How effective the new website is
- Geographically specific requirements:education and new business opportunities
- Detailed surveys to be conducted
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-ICCA has signed a contract with UIA tomake complementary information on int’lassociations available via the ICCA website
-Over 4000 ICCA event series will be linkedup with UIA data, starting in either lateDecember or January
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-New Asia-Pacific Regional Directorappointed in July – Noor Ahmed Hamid
-Two new researchers have been recruitedin the Asia Pacific Office bringing team upto 4
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-One speaking slot available in the “What’snew? What’s hot? What’s happening”session on Monday at 1415
- 5 minute presentations followed bychairing discussion on round table foranyone who wants to discuss with speakers
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-Three speaking slots available for “Greenmeetings” session on Wednesday 1045
- Same 5 mins presentation format plusround table discussion
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-BOD reviewing draft of first ICCA CSRreport for 2008, to be posted on websiteshortly after Congress
-ICCA has signed up to Global ReportingInitiative standards for sustainabilityreporting
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Thank you for your support of ICCA!
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Elections
• Destination Marketing: 2 candidates
• Handan Boyce (Istanbul CVB, Turkey)
• Ms Nomasonto Ndlovu (South AfricanTourism, South Africa)
• Europe: 2 candidates
• Lutz Vogt (German Convention Bureau,Germany)
• Juan José García (Viajes IberiaCongresos, Spain)
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Elections
• Re-elected automatically:
• Meetings Management:
• Jurriaen Sleijster (MCI, Switzerland)
• Meetings Support:
• Bart Heinrichs (Parthen, Netherlands)
• Latin America:
• Mariano Castex (MCI Latin America,Argentina)
• North America:
• Edouardo Chaillo (Mexico TourismBoard, Mexico)
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MAG report
• Final Programme revamped
• Networking Guide repeated
• Hotel who-is-where: Spot Me tool
• Walk-through
• Post-congress networking
• User groups & fringe meetings
• Revised ROI handbook
• Advice Clinics
• Business exchange
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MAG report
• Coffee zones
• Green
• CSR
• Speaker briefings
• Exhibition
Questions / suggestions?
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ICCA Congress at-a-glance
• Monday:
• MST05 - Yield & Revenue Management
• ME103 - Future shape of Corp. Meetings
• Tuesday:
• TE106: Why food & drink really matter atcongresses
• TE203: Using social media to boost thevalue of meetings & business
• Wednesday:
• WE101: The big scary things that keepdoctors awake at night
• WE204: Different models of partnership
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Wrap-up & conclusion
• Discussion / Q&A
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Thank you!48th ICCA Congress & Exhibition
Sunday 8 December 2009
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