Our old readers will notice some thorough changes concerning the image of the meetingspoland.pl site. Apart from the "face-lifting" we have launched an easier site map that now consists of three main parts. CONFERENCE VENUES - is a section where you can find an interactive conference venues searcher, selections and recommendations as well as everything on well-known CONFERENCES IN POLAND AND BEYOND Catalogue. In the NEWS section you may find latest information and current remarks on Meetings Industry . You will not find them anywhere else. The third part presents Meetings Management BUSINESS TOURISM OFFERS. Among those you will find the upcoming BTF - Business Tourism Fairs. This year's eight edition is going to be a really exceptional event. The BTF 2005 will be accompanied by the International ADRENALINA: Events & Travel Fairs. We believe that the reach program of the accompanying conferences will gather a great number of the conference planners, professionals form Poland and abroad - potential business events customers. Five of our main undertakings are exposed on the top as tabs. Among them is POLISH CONGRESS AMBASSADOR, an Internet biweekly which is edited in co-operation with six Polish Convention Bureaux. Soon all information will be available in English.
MERGED "ADRENALINA" & BTF FAIRS 2005
We would like to remind you that the merged events: 8th edition of the Conference and Training Venues and Services Fairs BTF - Business Tourism Fairs and 1st ADRENALINA Fairs: Passions - Motivations - Dreams will take place on 17-18 November 2005 in Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Organisers are convinced that the BTF proven formula - the oldest in Poland professional fairs event that is dedicated to conferences, congresses, incentive programs and business meetings - will provide a great marketing impact and strengthen a debuting ADRENALINA as the merged events will attract business customers and new mass audience. A great potential of both events guarantees a success to exhibitors and great time for visitors.
SUPERB CONFWRENCES "NEW EUROPE " & "CITIES OF MEETINGS"
We would like to interest you with the accompanying the BTF & ADRENALINA 2005 merged fairs (17-18.11.2005) conferences. The second edition of the International Conference "New Europe: Making the most of the opportunities created by the enlarged EU" will be dedicated to the business tourism experiences of the new EU member countries. Among others there will be presented a pan-European report on the opportunities of the MICE business in Eastern/Central Europe and Baltic countries . "Cities of meetings - Cities of modernity. Business tourism (congresses, conferences, events) impact on city economic and image development " International Conference is a real must-see novelty. Among the speakers there will be P professor Joe Goldblatt and Tom Hulton form the ICCA management.
More information on conferences is available on www.btf.waw.pl and www.adrenalina.waw.pl . Organisers are waiting for additional, new speeches, lectures and reports and are awaiting your bookings.
THE 8TH ACADEMY IS DONE
The 8th edition of the European Academy of the Conference Planners and Organisers took place on 26-27.04.2005. This year the course program was concentrated on how to acquire an international business visitor through the product quality and effective marketing in the international scope . A group of 50 participants had a chance to listen to very interesting lectures. Our guests from Great Britain - Rob Davidson and Tony Carey talked about a great importance of measuring and presenting the benefits connected with organising conferences and about the modern ways of acquiring conference business. The Polish Conference & Congress Association produced course materials prepared on the basis of our best experiences from the now - eighth - editions of Academy.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
We all should boost our qualifications. This is why we recommend these worth-reading publications written by the lecturers who were visiting Poland ("New Europe. New Opportunities" Conference, November 2004 and European Academy of the Conference Planners and Organisers, April 2005).
"The art of conference management. A step by step guide for organisers" by Tony Carey is a CD that presents suggestions and advice for those who deal with company and business events organising. The publication step by step clears up all intricacies of the conference organising, often giving fresh solutions.
"Managing Quality in Tourism" by Tony Lenehan presents total quality management in tourism, explains the challenges and the difficulties connected with implementing quality on the tourism services market.
To purchase these publications in the English language version contact us by phone: (4822) 810-86-89 or e-mail: meetings@meetingspoland.pl .
BE VISIBLE. JOIN THE "CONFERENCES IN POLAND AND BEYOND" CATALOGUE 2006
More and more advertisers apply to present their venues in the Conference Venues and Services Catalogue "Conferences in Poland and Beyond" 2006. Entries deadline is in the end of June 2005. "Conferences in Poland and Beyond" is the oldest (published since 1998) and the biggest in Poland publication on conference venues and services. Catalogues together with the accompanying CD with the modern searcher and folded A-2 map is distributed directly to the conference customers in the largest in Poland companies, representatives of the science institutions, professionals associations and local and regional governments, as well the international congress organisers. The Catalogue in the electronic version is also presented on the www.meetingspoland.pl what generates new receivers. This original and modern formula of the Catalogue makes it the most tool of the Meeting Planners in Poland and abroad.
