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Editor: Jill Varleyinfo@businesseventsnews.com.auwww.businesseventsnews.com.au
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Mind yourself...MINDFULNESS,
a form ofself-awarenesstraining adaptedfromBuddhistmeditationis describedas a mental state achieved byfocusing one’s awareness on thepresent moment.
It’s a word that is usedincreasingly at conferences
and meetings by motivationalspeakers.
I get a regular mindfulnessreminder from Tom at TheStillness Project whose latestmissive talks of a womanMelissa Ambrosini who runs aBusiness Bootcamp, also run onmindfulness principles.
Then there’s Peter Bliss whosecompany Business is Bliss hasbeen running workshops andteaching about the power ofmindfulness and meditation tothe corporate world for manyyears.
Illustrating that mindfulnessand meditation is not just a one-day-wonder he said, “Did youknow the Surgeon General of theUnited States meditates daily andconsiders mindfulness practiceone of his four rules for health?”
It’s a principle being embracedby Marriott International withthe debut of their ‘MeetingsImagined’ during their annual
Global Sales Mission last week.See page 3 of today’s BEN forsome of the fascinating insights -all I can say is Ommmm.... Jill.
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ISES local chapters closeTHE Australian chapters of
the Internaonal Special Events
Society (SES) have ceased
operang, with chair Gian Blundo
telling members the board has
rejected a
nancial
membership
proposal
from ISES
Internaonal.
Blundo,
who’s
president of the Melbourne
chapter of the society said there
had been “ongoing conversaons
with ISES Internaonal regarding
obligaons of the chapters”.
Membership renewals have
been held o due to the talks
which aimed to save “any
unnecessary expense” on behalf
of the group’s members.
“In short, the nancial
obligaons and increasing
running costs made connuaon
of the chapter dicult in today’s
business climate...
“Despite eorts by both pares
to reach a nancially sustainable
compromise, the decision has
resulted in the eecve closure of
the ISES Melbourne and Sydney
Chapters on June 30, 2015,”
Blundo said.
It’s understood that the local
chapters were required to remit
about $25,000 in annual fees to
Chicago-based ISES Internaonal.
Both of the local chapters are
sll listed on the ISES website
but the organisaon’s Australian
domain name ises.org.au is no
longer acve.
ISES claims to be the “principal
associaon represenng the
creave
events
professional
globally”.
MEANWHILE
in the wake
of the demiseof the local
ISES chapters, Meengs and
Events Australia is oering ISES
members six months free MEA
membership.
“MEA was disappointed to
hear of the closure of ISES
Australia, as we’ve always had a
great relaonship between our
organisaons,” said MEA ceo
Linda Gaunt.
“We’re keen to help ISES
members get the same kind of
networking and event benets
they had before,” she said.
Aer discussions with numerous
ISES members MEA will be
planning special interest events
which connue ISES’s strong
networking program, Gaunt said.
ISES members wanng to avail
themselves of the oer can
contact Natalie Deryahina on
The deal allows them to take
out an annual MEA membership
for the price of six months.
AACB celebratingthirty years
THE Australian Associaon of
Convenon Bureaux is inving
submissions from across the
industry to help celebrate three
decades leading the sector.Execuve director Ancdrew
Heibl has asked stakeholders
and members to send in images
or other memorabilia “hidden
away in the vault” by email to
Rusbridge to retireREED Exhibions chairman
Mike Rusbridge has announced
that he will rere at the end of
the year aer more than 25 yearswith the organisaon.
Rusbridge was appointed global
ceo and chairman in 1996, aer
inially joining Reed Exhibions
in 1988 as ceo Europe and then
becoming head of Europe and
Asia in 1994.
During his tenure Reed
Exhibions has grown almost
fourfold to a US$1.5b company
with a global porolio of around
500 events in 43 countries and
more than 7 million parcipants.
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Business Events
Cairns & Great Barrier
Reef invite you to
discover tropical treasures
for your next event at our
annual roadshow, 21-24 July 2015.
This cocktail event will provide you with the opportunity to meet with
18 business event suppliers from the Cairns & Great Barrier Reef region
and discover all that our destination has to offer event planners.
That’s not all! At each event one lucky guest will
win a holiday for 2 to Cairns & Great Barrier Reef.
BRISBANE Tuesday 21 July 2015 | 12:00 - 14:00
SYDNEY Wednesday 22 July 2015 | 17:30 - 19:30
MELBOURNE Friday 24 July 2015 | 12:00 - 14:00
RSVP by Friday 10 July
ClubMEA’S winter warm upIT may have
been cold and
drizzly outside
but ClubMEA
members were
warm and
cosy at the
Crane Bar, a
Japanese Fusion
restaurant inSydney’s Pos
Point.
Described as a
late night gig for grownups, three
signature cocktails were served
by cocktail supremo Michael
Finell.
Barramundi bites, pork gyoza
and other mouth watering
delights we
consumed as head
chef Taichi showed
o his whole sh
knife experience
with a 33kg tuna
(above).Time then to
groove with DJ Rodd
Richards and vocals
from Arrno Olssen.
G-up on the GCTHE Gold Coast’s 13 kilometre
integrated tram network, known
as “the G,” was used to transport
the hosted buyers during the
recent This is Gold Coast 2015
Business Exchange.
The light rail system showedhow seamless it is for delegates
to be transported along the 16
tram staons from Gold Coast
University Hospital (Health
and Knowledge precinct) to
Broadbeach South with its high-
quality bus interchanges, thus
allowing parcipants to stay at a
range of accommodaon along
the route and to conference at
the GCCEC.
The service, which runs seven
days a week, every 7 or sominutes, also oers a ‘go access
Corporate Events’ card at $12 for
three days of unlimited travel.
A new TransLink app with
real-me informaon and links
to a 24-hour call centre is also
available to download.
Japan famil proposalsTHE Sydney oce of the Japan
Naonal Tourist Oce is solicingrequests for proposals for the
JNTO Familiarisaon Trip for
Professional Congress Organisers.
The objecve is to propose a
trip to Japan for PCOs based in
Australia and New Zealand, “who
have potenal clients considering
Japan for incenves or corporate
meengs”.
The proposal period is from
today unl 24 July 2015, with
further details available on the
JNTO website by CLICKING HERE.
New CCB chiefMICHAEL Mahews has been
named as thenew chief
execuve
ocer of the
Canberra
Convenon
Bureau.
Mahews
right) is
originally
rom Australia, but will relocate
back to the country from his
urrent role as execuve director
of Meengs and Convenons PEI,which works to promote business
events in the Canadian province
of Prince Edward Island.
He’s been working in Canada for
he last 14 years.
Mahews said he was delighted
o be joining the team at the
Canberra Convenon Bureau.
“I look forward to working
with members and stakeholders
and contribung to the growth
of naonal and internaonal
meengs, to ensure Canberraakes full advantage of the
mportant economic driver that is
he meengs sector,” he said.
BEN ’s calendar detailsupcoming global MICE events.
If you have an upcoming eventyou’d like us to feature, email
1 JUL Asia Meeting & IncentiveTravel Exchange (AMITE);Marina Bay Sands, Singapore;www.questexevent.com/ AMITE/2015/
9 JUL ATAB Business BuildersConference; Pullman Hyde ParkSydney; www.atab.net.au
16-17 JUL Travel Industry Expo;Luna Park, Sydney; more infowww.travelindustryexpo.com.au
18 JUL AFTA NTIA Awards;Dockside Pavilion DarlingHarbour, Sydney - afta.com.au
5-6 AUG ibtm China, Beijing -see www.cibtm.com.
1-2 SEP The Event Show Sydney;Australian Turf Club RoyalRandwick Racecourse;www.meetingsevents.com.au
6-9 SEP Luxperience, AustralianTechnology Park Sydneywww.luxperience.com.au
10-11 SEP MICE Asia PacificExhibition 2015; Suntec
Singapore; more info at: www.miceasiaexhibition.com
29 NOV-1 DEC PCO AssociationConference & Exhibition,Adelaide Convention Centre -conference.pco.asn.au
EventsCalendar
Canada gsa proposalTHE Canadian government has
issued a Request for Proposal for
representaon in Australia.Currently Canada’s local gsa
is DC & Associates Worldwide,
headed up by Donna Campbell
who formerly ran the Canadian
Tourism Commission here.
Latin America eventTHE rst Lan America
Meeng and Incenve Travel
Exchange (LAMITE) took place
over the weekend at the Real
InterConnental San Jose, Costa
Rica, as the latest addion to the
Questex ITE porolio.
Conducted in partnership
with the Society for Incenve
Travel Excellence (SITE) theevent brought the region’s top
producing MICE buyers together
with leading global suppliers.
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Can you imagine this!“A MEETING is more than
just tables and chairs, so
for a meeng to be truly
successful it needs to have
purpose to make it more
impacul and make it
inspiraonal”.
That was a key insight
introduced at an event last
week in Sydney by MarrioInternaonal’s chief sales &
markeng ocer Asia Pacic,
Peggy Fang Roe.
She was presiding over
the Australian launch of
the hotel giant’s “Meengs
Reimagined” iniave which
was introduced in the US
market two years ago.
Marrio’s Meeng Services
app, tled Red Coat Direct , is
also part of the program.
The App allows a MeengPlanner to request, respond
and connect in real-me with
hotel event sta on any Web-
enabled device - allowing events
to be manager without ever
leaving your seat.
Introduced at the launch was
guest speaker Ma Griggs, a
leading Australian performance
coach and author who gave
a keynote on the importance
of meengs in todays day and
age, and how to make the mostof them through mind and
meditaon pracces.
He works with elite
sportspeople and high prole
execuves alike to reach their full
potenal at work and in life.
The pair are pictured above
during the launch at Pier One.
WHAT do you call someoneon the social circuit in WesternAustralia?
Apparently the correct term is a“Perthonality” - at least accordingto Staging Connections whichincluded the term in a mediarelease sent to BEN today.
HERE’S an idea for an eye-
catching publicity stunt.
Three women attracted lotsof onlookers on the steps of theNew York Public Library last Fri astheir naked bodies were paintedin front of lunch-time crowds.
The performance art piece ispart of the so-called AdipositivityProject, which works to combat“sizeism” by celebrating fatbodies via a photo-activismcampaign - for details seewww.adipositivity.com.
“We’re here promoting bodylove,” said organiser Kimberly
Massengill - who apparently alsogoes by the alias of SubstantiaJones.
WEDDING planners note -perhaps you can expand yourbusiness to include a little moretechnology.
However probably not as muchas this recent wedding in Tokyowhich celebrate the nuptials of -you guessed it - two robots.
It was Japan’s rst “robotwedding” which saw the groom
Frois formally tie the knot withhis humanoid robot bride Yukrin,complete with a metallic kiss.
The ceremony was attendedby about 100 paying guests -and afterwards they partied thenight away with a massive tieredwedding cake, a lavish bufetand lots of dancing - with movespresumably including “the Robo”and “The Robot”.
Luxperience partnersLUXPERIENCE has announced
a new partnership with “luxurytravel designer” group Traveller
Made which has a signicant
presence in Europe.
The alliance will see several
Traveller Made members aend
Luxperience, with the show’s
director of markeng, Michelle
Papas, saying this reects an
increased number of invited
buyers at this year’s event.
Club Med blogCLUB Med recently hosted
famous jeweller Samantha Willsat its new Finolhu Villas property
in the Maldives.
Wills stayed in an over water
bungalow and like all guests
enjoyed the all-inclusive ve star
cuisine - and was so impressed
she wrote a blog entry which has
received strong interest - see the
excerpt by CLICKING HERE.
ibtm world regosTRADE visitor registraon
has just opened for ibtm world
(previously EIBTM) which will take
place in Barcelona 17-19 Nov.
There’s also a range of travel
and accommodaon discounts
available for aendees including
up to 50% o Luhansa and
Iberia airfares - to register see
www.ibtmworld.com/visit2015 .
crumbs!
Men in Black Ball a hit
STAGING Conneconsshowcased the latest event
technology when it facilitated the
recent Men in Black Ball charity
event at the Pan Pacic Hotel in
Perth earlier this month.
The black e event saw
parcipants unite in support
of men’s health causes, and
Staging pulled out all the stops
with its latest products including
the Event Backdrop - a massive
6mx3m illuminated screen where
VIPs had their photos taken.Event Tweet allowed guests to
get social, highlighng a range
of tweets and other social media
posts on large format screens.
Barbara McNaught, ceo of
Momentum Forum Events
Australia said the was thrilled at
the results which also saw Staging
provide sound and visuals as well
as contribute to the room layout.
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