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Florence, Italy 2009
07 - 11 November
Warm Welcome to First
Time Attendees
Saturday 07 November
Is this your first ICCA General
Assembly and Congress? Not
sure what to attend, how to
contribute, where to go for
advice? What is an ICCA Data
Workshop? What education
sessions should you attend?
What happens during Sector
Meetings? What are Chapter
Meetings?
Make plans to arrive on time to
attend the lunch and the special session for First Time Attendees on Saturday afternoon. You’ll
get to meet the ICCA Board of
Directors and all the key ICCA
staff, who are on hand to make
sure you have the most
successful experience possible
during your visit to the
Congress.
For more details please follow
this link.
2009 ICCA Silent Auction
Participate in this year's ICCA
Silent Auction and contribute to
the ICCA Education Fund which
creates education opportunities
for young profesionals in the
International Meetings Industry! Last year's Silent Auction raised
24,000 Euros!
If you are interested in donating a prize or would like to receive
more information, send Rosario
Gomez an email at
rosario@icca.nl.
Prizes donated can be big or small, packages or single prizes, leisure-related,
meetings-related, objects, etc.!
Be creative!
Follow this link to see last year's Silent Auction Guide to Prizes.
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Dear ICCA member,
Welcome to your first ICCA Congress Bulletin for Florence, Italy! It is now time to start planning for ICCA's biggest event of the year, so each month you will receive a new issue of this bulletin with useful information, educational highlights, and business opportunities.
Our aim at this year's Congress is to offer you even more business/networking/ and learning opportunities than in previous years. So keep an eye out for the registration opening date (coming soon!) and keep yourself informed by checking the ICCA Congress website regularly and reading all of the Congress bulletins.
In this bulletin:
Top quality educational content for senior executives!
ICCA Coffee Zones - New sponsorship packages
ICCA Best Marketing Award 2009
Hotel Accommodation
Accessibility - how to get your flight discount
Top quality educational content for senior executives!
The ICCA Congress education programme is custom-designed every year, and features a mix of speakers including top corporate and association meetings clients, expert business speakers from outside the meetings industry, and of course a selection of some of the most experienced ICCA members. Our speakers are drawn from all regions of the world, matching the global mix and interests of our delegates.
Each year we invest more and more in our speakers, and strive to create a programme that will be fresh, thought-provoking, strategically-oriented, and packed with new ideas for improving your personal performance and your organisation's bottom line.
The 2009 Congress will feature our biggest and best choice of sessions ever. Details will be regularly updated throughout the year: the latest information on topics and speakers can be found here.
For a flavour of the quality and breadth of content we consistently deliver to our delegates, take a look here at these video clips and session notes/overviews from the 2008 Congress held in Victoria, Canada.
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 ICCA Coffee Zones
- New sponsorship packages
This year's coffee/networking breaks between educational sessions will be longer than in previous years and will be split between four distinctively different Coffee Zones. The Business Partner Coffee Zone is sponsored collectively by ICCA's Business Partners, but the other areas are available for interested members to raise their profile through a Congress-long sponsorship package.
ICCA Business Partner Coffee Zone
Busy location leading to main group of breakout session rooms: mainly standing networking area.
Cyber Coffee Zone (EUR 6000)
Delegates will be attracted to use the Congress email facilities which are located here: mainly standing networking area.
Business Exchange Coffee Zone (EUR 6000)
Ideal location for exchanging business leads and one-to-one meetings: small tables for quick-fire discussions.
Discussion Coffee Zone (EUR 6000)
Perfect location for discussing sessions you just attended, planning future promotions, negotiating deals, relaxing: a mix of large and small tables.
If you are interested in sponsoring one of these Coffee Zones, please contact
Mieke van Loenen.
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 ICCA Best Marketing Award 2009
Do you have a great marketing campaign that you would like to share with the rest of the International Meetings community? Submit your Best Marketing Award entry before Friday 11 September 2009 and get a chance to become one of the ICCA Best Marketing Award Finalists. Follow this link to read entry guidelines.
All finalists will benefit from the following:
- A free registration (1 person per company) to attend the ICCA Congress in Florence
- Acknowledgement on the ICCA Website
- Acknowledgement in Members Update Online
- Acknowledgement in ICCA Intelligence
The ICCA Best Marketing Award, established in 1997, recognises the excellence and outstanding accomplishments of organisations in their effort to market their destination or product. Entries can range from full scale campaigns and branding exercises to individual promotions and events. The ICCA Best Marketing Award is open to all ICCA members, regardless of their sector. The business or organisation that wins will receive the Award at the ICCA Congress Closing session in Florence.
See what the 2008 Winner, Sarawak Convention Bureau - Malaysia, has to say:
"Winning this award is the ultimate endorsement of our marketing creativity and shows that, as a relatively new bureau, we have come a very long way in a short time. The win is also important in reaffirming to our government and industry stakeholders that we are on track to succeed in delivering on our ambitious growth targets over the next few years."
Jill Henry, Chief Executive Officer
Sarawak Convention Bureau
For more details on the ICCA Best Marketing Award please visit the website.
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 Hotel Accommodation
This year there will be no Headquarter Hotel appointed for the ICCA Congress. Instead 15 hotels, all at a maximum of 10 minutes walking distance from the Congress centre and 4 or 5 star standard have been chosen by the local host committee and ICCA to accommodate all ICCA Congress delegates this year.
Rates
- EUR 230,00 /night for a double room for single use in a 5 star hotel, including breakfast and taxes
- EUR 170,00 /night for a double room for single use in a 4 star superior hotel, including breakfast and taxes
- EUR 150,00 /night for a double room for single use in a 4 star hotel, including breakfast and taxes
You will only be able to book your accommodation at these specially reduced rates when you register for the Congress, so make sure to keep an eye out for registration opening date so that you are able to book the hotel of your best choice.
Follow this link to know more about the official hotels which have been selected for the ICCA Congress.
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Accessibility
- how to get your flight discount
Official Airline Alliance
SkyTeam is the official Alliance Network of the 48th ICCA Congress & Exhibition in Florence, Italy. All attendees will benefit from additional discounts of 10% (Premium ticket) or 5% (restricted ticket) on the widest range of already reduced fares for Economy and Business class. These additional discounts are available at all participating SkyTeam partners. The SkyTeam network is serving 728 cities in 149 countries with over 15000 flights daily and comprises 14 airlines.
To benefit from these special offers please do the following:
- Log on to www.skyteam.com/globalmeetings and enter the Event Identifier Code.*
- Choose the SkyTeam airline you want to fly with. (Air France, KLM, Alitalia and Czech Airlines are the first airlines worldwide to give you access to an online booking tool that applies SkyTeam Global Meetings event discounts automatically.)
- Choose the travel dates and times that suit you best. For an increased flexibility, the discounts are available 5 days before and after the event dates.
- Remember that the sooner you book your flight, the better the fares will be.
For more information about the SkyTeam Global Meetings product, please click here.
* ICCA members will receive the Event Identifier Code with their registration confirmation. It can also be obtained from ICCA Head Office by contacting the Events Department at registration@icca.nl.
Follow this link for further details.
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We look forward to meeting with you there!
With kind regards,
Martin Sirk
Chief Executive Officer
ICCA
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