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Monument Tracker has revolutionised the way we use tourist guides with its cultural technology adapted to today’s users.

With a smartphone in your pocket, you’ll be notified of each monument and its history as you tour round on foot, by bike or in a car.

No research, no hassle, no obligatory itinerary – you can learn all about culture in total freedom – all you have to do is look up and admire!

All the Monument Tracker Apps are free until 7 August 2012 for the 37 million mobile phone users. The idea is to encourage smartphone users to discover and download all kinds of destinations and partner towns … including the Principality of Monaco

Once again this summer some of the roads beside the river will be closed to traffic and will be taken over by walkers, cyclists and roller-bladers. The annual event attracts Parisians and tourists alike for a seaside feel in the heart of the French capital.

11th edition from 20 July to 19 August **,

On the voie George Pompidou**, 800m of beach on the right bank, from pont Neuf (1st) to the Square de l’Hôtel de Ville Sully (4th). At Bassin de la Villette, beach along the quaysides of the Loire and Seine.

On the programme for Paris Plages 2012 : sport (boats, rowing boats, kayaks, pedalos, bikes,…), leisure activities (pétanque, tai chi, table football, sun loungers, sand castles …), culture (festival Fnac Live on the Parvis de l’Hôtel de Ville, concerts by the best musicians of the Métro, temporary lending library …).

Paris Plage offers a real holiday feeling beside the Seine with sun loungers, palm trees and sand!

The new expo centre for the Greater Berlin area has been completed in record time.  Situated immediately next to the new BER international airport which still under construction (due to open in March 2013) the Berlin ExpoCenter Airport is a versatile exposition and event-staging facility with three permanently installed expo halls with an overall size in excess of 20,000 sqm.  In addition there are spaces for open-air presentations, temporary expo structures and service facilities.

 

This is Messe Berlin’s second complex in the Greater Berlin region in addition to their traditional urban site Berlin ExpoCenter City am Berliner Funkturm. Preparatory work for building facilities for the International Aerospace Exhibition ILA has already begun on the new expo grounds. The Berlin Air Show 2012 will be staged here from September 11 through 16 as the leading annual event in the European aerospace industry. In January 2013, the new fashion fair PANORAMA Berlin will have its premiere at the Berlin Fashion Week.

 

Raimund Hosch, CEO of Messe Berlin GmbH: “As with immediate effect Berlin/Brandenburg boasts a trump card in the event business, with grounds in a first-class location. ExpoCenter Airport is the first trade fair venue to be next door to a major international airport, a unique selling point for attracting events and a significant addition to the established grounds next to the Berlin Radio Tower. It strengthens business in the Berlin/Brandenburg region and in future will significantly boost spending in Berlin and Brandenburg. “

A new metro station has just opened at Lisbon Airport enabling passengers and visitors to travel to the city centre in just 15 minutes.  This development has made a significant impact to improve access to Lisbon Airport, thus constituting an important hub for air passengers.  There are three transit levels: main lobby for airport access, intermediate floor and platform.

The station is now one of the Red Line stations, with connections to the stations of Oriente (Parque das Nações), Saldanha and São Sebastião, the latter with a connection to Marques de Pombal station, on the Blue line, thus allowing a fast and convenient access to the city’s prime areas.  The airport metro station is majestic and striking, not only for its dynamic and contemporary architecture – as well as the decor, which is signed by the Portuguese cartoonist “Antonio” of leading Portuguese figures, representative of the 20th century, carved in stone and embedded in the walls throughout the station.

The Dublin Convention Bureau have released a new promotional video to showcase the city to potential delegates and venue finding companies.

Please see the link below to explore the possibilities the city has to offer

http://www.dublinconventionbureau.com/let_us_help/presentation_tools/Why_Dublin_Video

After the launch of the internet site www.meet-in-nice.com dedicated specifically to the world of business tourism last November, the Convention Bureau of Nice has just released the new “Meeting and Incentive Guide.”

 

This high-quality publication is loyal to the qualitative strategy that aims to make Nice a top-notch M.I.C.E. destination in the domestic .and international markets.  

Nice Côte d’Azur Airport has been awarded the “Famille Plus” Label by the Convention and Visitors Bureau of Nice, to reward the airport for its level of hospitality to families. The award has been taken as a key sign of Nice’s dedication to world-class tourism and hospitality, both leisure and corporate.  

Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, has won its bid to host the 24th European Congress of Pathology (ECP) 2012. The city’s bid was supported by the Prague Convention Bureau. The ECP and the Society of Czech Pathologists will welcome the largest gathering of pathologists in Europe to the congress, 8-12 September 2012.

A grant of € 10 million has been allocated towards the Grant Scheme for Sustainable Tourism Projects by Enterprises financed through the European Regional Development Fund which forms part of the EU’s Structural Funds 2007 – 2013 for Malta.

 

The scheme, which is being managed by the Tourism and Sustainable Development Unit within the Office of the Prime Minister, directs funds towards the economic development of the tourism sector. Sustainable tourism projects submitted should strengthen Malta’s competitive advantage in tourism; increase the use of ICT for tourism; increase good environmental practices by tourism enterprises as well as increase innovation in tourism.