The hotel will feature The Vintry Kitchen, serving Asian tapas, a roof terrace with views overlooking iconic London sights like St Paul’s Cathedral and The Shard and ‘Do Not Disturb’ the hotel’s basement bar that will transport you back to 1920’s New York.
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etc.venues have announced a brand new conference and exhibition venue – just minutes away from Liverpool Street and Bank stations.
The new etc.venues – 133 Houndsditch will offer their largest room to date, catering for conferences up to 800 and dinners for 500.
The venue is conveniently situated across one floor and the main room is supported by 15,000 sq ft of flexible exhibition space, along with a further seven large breakout rooms with capacity for 50 – 200.
With plenty of branding opportunities and the latest built in AV technology, along with onsite chefs, exceptional service and the usual etc. flair for modern design – this new venue will offer the perfect space for your exclusive events.
The venue opens Spring 2019.
The property is a 40-minute drive from either Berlin Tegel Airport or Berlin Schönefeld Airport, and within walking distance of a train station.
The venue joins Hampton by Hilton Berlin City West and Hampton by Hilton Berlin City Centre Alexanderplatz within the capital and is the ninth Hampton by Hilton hotel in Germany.
It has been confirmed today that Hyatt Hotels Corporation has won the bid to operate the new Spa & Conference hotel at Edinburgh Marina. This is the international hotelier’s first hotel in Scotland.
The Hyatt Regency hotel at Edinburgh Marina will have 187 bedrooms including a two bedroom Presidential suite together with 98 one, two and three bedroom Hyatt Regency Residences serviced apartments. These apartments will be designed and fitted to the same specification as the hotel room enabling guests to enjoy the service and amenities of a hotel, whilst enjoying all the benefits of a self-contained apartment.
The property will also feature a health spa and fitness centre, a 10,000 sq.ft conference & banqueting centre, restaurants and bars. The hotel will overlook the new 340 berth Edinburgh Marina which will uniquely, for this coastline, provide 24/7 access at all states of tides.
Organising a conference, meeting or event outside the UK brings some additional factors to consider, both for the organiser and the attendee. For example, has everyone got a valid passport, are visas required, has travel insurance been arranged, are there any special medical requirements, what are the luggage guidelines? Do you have everything covered for when you travel abroad?
The websites listed below will be able to help, but remember the regulations can change at any time.
Check the latest information from the Passport Office.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has a list of countries with a summary about the destination and information about:
The NHS Fit for Travel website has general travel advice and disease prevention, as well as the immunisation and vaccination requirements for each country.
Make sure that any European travelling in Europe has a European Health Insurance Card. This card entitles the user to access healthcare and some insurers require you to have one.
Check the Department of Health Advice healthcare abroad, it gives advice about how to access the necessary state-provided healthcare.
Insurance – speak to an agent about the insurance for your event and your liability. You will also need insurance to cover all employees travelling abroad.
Freight – if you are shipping equipment and documentation, consult a freight forwarding agent, who will advise the best method, cost, time and prepare the required documentation.
The opening of the latest hotel in the Dakota brand has been confirmed for May 2019, Dakota Deluxe Manchester, located on Dulcie Street, near Piccadilly Station will open with 137 bedrooms, including 27 suites one of which is called the Grand Deluxa and will be the largest suite in the city.
The property will also feature the Grill, the bar, Champagne Room and cigar garden and will join two existing Dakota Deluxe hotels in Glasgow and Leeds and two properties under the more accessible Dakota brand in South Queensferry, Edinburgh, and Eurocentral, on the outskirts of Glasgow.
For an entire month, Montreux celebrates Christmas with one of Switzerland’s largest markets. 160 chalets on the lakeside promenades sell typical dishes and handcrafted gifts. Each year, the centre of the market features a guest, with its costumes and traditional cuisine. For three weekends in December, Chillon Castle provides the setting for “Medieval Magic”, which presents activities from different times. Children are of course the kings of the Christmas season: the MOB trains take them and their families up to Rochers-de-Naye to meet Father Christmas at his home! Each night, the bearded old fellow rides down to the lake on his sleigh to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
To make visitors’ eyes shine year after year, new activities are regularly added to the programme. The latest ones are the sound and light show in the Magical Garden as well as the Village of the Elves, a children’s paradise.
Montreux the charming Swiss resort city located besides Lake Geneva goes to great lengths to put a magical touch on the Christmas season! Stalls on the lakeside promenades, the Loggers’ Village, Medieval Magic, the Village of the Elves and even the House of Father Christmas: all these activities make sure that Montreux Noël is much more than just a market.
For an entire month, Montreux celebrates Christmas with one of Switzerland’s largest markets. 160 chalets on the lakeside promenades sell typical dishes and handcrafted gifts. Each year, the centre of the market features a guest, with its costumes and traditional cuisine. For three weekends in December, Chillon Castle provides the setting for “Medieval Magic”, which presents activities from different times. Children are of course the kings of the Christmas season: the MOB trains take them and their families up to Rochers-de-Naye to meet Father Christmas at his home! Each night, the bearded old fellow rides down to the lake on his sleigh to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
To make visitors’ eyes shine year after year, new activities are regularly added to the programme. The latest ones are the sound and light show in the Magical Garden as well as the Village of the Elves, a children’s paradise.
Montreux the charming Swiss resort city located besides Lake Geneva goes to great lengths to put a magical touch on the Christmas season! Stalls on the lakeside promenades, the Loggers’ Village, Medieval Magic, the Village of the Elves and even the House of Father Christmas: all these activities make sure that Montreux Noël is much more than just a market.
For an entire month, Montreux celebrates Christmas with one of Switzerland’s largest markets. 160 chalets on the lakeside promenades sell typical dishes and handcrafted gifts. Each year, the centre of the market features a guest, with its costumes and traditional cuisine. For three weekends in December, Chillon Castle provides the setting for “Medieval Magic”, which presents activities from different times. Children are of course the kings of the Christmas season: the MOB trains take them and their families up to Rochers-de-Naye to meet Father Christmas at his home! Each night, the bearded old fellow rides down to the lake on his sleigh to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
To make visitors’ eyes shine year after year, new activities are regularly added to the programme. The latest ones are the sound and light show in the Magical Garden as well as the Village of the Elves, a children’s paradise.
Let’s reinvent the way we meet, experience and learn at the MPI European Meetings & Events Conference in the Netherlands.
‘We are not here to play the game. We are here to change it.’
With this quote from the Netflix hit series Peaky Blinders in mind, MPI The Netherlands Chapter started the design process of the European Meetings & Events Conference (EMEC) to be held in February 2019 in The Hague. Now that the promise has been made, it is time to live up to it.
Too often, conferences are using the same design as they have been doing for decades. Keynote speaker on stage, delegates sitting in a ballroom listening to what is said or playing with their smart phones. Yet, there are so many ways people can learn. After all, kids do not learn how to ride their bike just by listening how they should. They need to get on the bike, practice, fall, get up, fall again, get help, and try again. Until they get it. At EMEC19 that is exactly what delegates will experience. Changing the game means changing the way we learn, changing the way we meet and changing the way we experience.
Meeting new and interesting people is high on everyone’s list. But how often do you find yourself with the people you already know? Do not get it wrong, there is plenty of time to meet with old industry friends. But EMEC19 is designed in a way you will meet new people and get to know them well enough to make sure they pick up the phone when you call. Interested in finding out how that promise will be kept? There is only one way to find out…
EMEC19 allows attendees to learn the way that suits him or her best. Part of the programme consists of learning journeys to explore cross industry innovation. Learning journeys that are literally learning + journeys. Delegates are taken out of the meeting room, even out of the conference centre, to explore how other industries deal with the same challenges our industry faces. Another example of a changing learning method is scenario-based learning. If it proved to be good enough for the world leaders, it is worthwhile testing the effectiveness yourself. Are you intrigued yet?
The conference will focus on four main topics: Risk Management, Leadership, Design Thinking, and Meeting Perspectives. Specialist tracks are designed that challenge participants to dive deep into these specific topics. EMEC19 allows delegates to become a ninja on one of the four topics or cherry pick personal favourites from the various topics addressed.
Robbert Weddepohl, president of MPI the Netherlands chapter and Gijs Verbeek, Executive Director of MPI The Netherlands chapter both strongly believe in using local knowledge. After assigning a dedicated project manager, the team decided to put an enormous amount of time towards the design of EMEC19.
Weddepohl: “When we sent out an invitation to help us in designing EMEC19, nearly sixty people showed up. Fascinating, since we only sent out forty-five invitations as we were hoping for a group of around twelve. Planners, suppliers, MPI members, non-members, young, not so young, so many professionals from our industry stood up to help. We felt we were on to something and captured their enthusiasm, creativity and knowledge using the #eventcanvas. Based on this design process, we mapped over a dozen event stakeholders which led us to create 10 design principles for EMEC19.”
Change the way you experience. Experience the way you change!
EMEC19 is an immersive experience that takes place from Saturday 9th until Tuesday 12th of February 2019. Verbeek: ‘With a spoiled audience like ours, we realized that it is difficult to exceed expectations by programming yet another fantastic speaker, an exclusive historic venue or serving the best wines. EMEC19 will change the way you experience, and by doing so, you will experience the way you change as a professional. Creating unexpected experiences that get under your skin and make you want to call your best friend to tell what just happened…that is what we are aiming for.’
As a grassroots organization, MPI is a strong believer in empowering its members and local chapters to excel. Still, it is the first time a local chapter is taking full responsibility on a flagship event like EMEC. MPI’s International Board of Directors (IBOD) played an important role in activating and empowering the European meetings & events community to deliver an ineffable edition of EMEC. A clear sign that MPI keeps moving forward.
More info and registration on www.emec19.com
Mail: seeyou@emec19.com
About the author: Sven Boelhouwer is working as a freelance event and conference organizer. He has been on the board of MPI The Netherlands Chapter for over a decade, being VP of the Educational Committee and Events Team as a volunteer. He is the assigned project manager for EMEC19. Email: sven@emec19.com
InterContinental Hotels Group’s (IHG) Voco brand has made its European debut in Cardiff following the rebrand of the Principal Hotel Cardiff.
The 142-bedroom Voco St David’s, Cardiff, is the second hotel to join IHG’s new upscale brand, following the opening of the Voco Gold Coast in Australia earlier this month.
Three other hotels set to join Voco next year are Oxford Thames, Oxford Spires and the Grand Central Glasgow. 15 more UK hotels are expected to sign up to the Voco brand by the end of 2018.
