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20,000 events a year add up to a lot of knowhow
Sydney Paulden interviews Michael Schüller and Peter Manning of American Express Meetings & Events.
At the Business Travel Show in Earls Court, London, ITCM met Michael Schüller and Peter Manning of American Express Meetings & Events. Michael is Vice-President for Europe, Middle East and Asia, whilst Peter is Director of AEME in the UK. This specialist arm of American Express operates globally. It is one of the few organisations anywhere in the world’s MICE sector that can claim that it employs 1,000 people in over 100 countries and is responsible for 20,000 meetings a year!ExCel gets the first UK Aloft hotel
Brian McGuinness, Global Brand Manager, tells ITCM what Aloft offers to the next generation of business travellers and delegates
Aloft has arrived in the UK. Aloft is the hotel brand that Starwood first launched in June 2008. There are now 58 Aloft hotels and the UK is the seventh country to receive them. Already in the USA, Canada, China, the UAE, India and Belgium, they will soon be seen in Thailand, Colombia and Costa Rica. Brian McGuinness, Senior Vice President, Speciality Select Brands for Starwood, was in London to attend the launch of Aloft London Excel.Chartering is about efficiency, not money
Tim Procter, MD of Air Charter Travel, tells ITCM why his company has seen 13% growth in revenue in its 20th year
The benefits that flow from the use of air charter are becoming increasingly evident to more companies; so much so that Air Charter Travel, based in the UK, has been able to report a 13% increase in business compared with the same period last year.‘Air charter is not chosen because of price’, Tim Procter maintains, very straightforwardly. Tim is Managing Director and founder of the broker Air Charter Travel, an enterprise that is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. ‘Making the decision to fly on a chartered aircraft is in every case clearly seen as the obvious best way to achieve objectives. And this is easily illustrated in the MICE sector of business’, he continues.
‘MICE market improving – at a slower rate’
Puneet Chhatwal of Rezidor talks to Sydney Paulden
The Executive Vice President & Chief Development Officer of the Rezidor Group is Puneet Chhatwal. He describes himself as ‘part of the furniture’ because he has been with the group for 14 years and he also suggests that he is not very clever but does claim to have common sense, which, he says, he sees as vital for the hotel industry.Rotana is moving rapidly onto the world MICE scene
Rotana’s Chief Operating Officer, Omer Kaddouri, talks to ITCM about the group’s expansion plans
Rotana’s first major hotel was the Rotana Beach in Abu Dhabi. Possibly still the flagship property, it has benefited from the more recent development of Yas Island just offshore, so that the Abu Dhabi Formula One race circuit and Ferrari World, the world’s biggest indoor theme park, have added to the hotel’s attractions.Read more: Rotana is moving rapidly onto the world MICE scene
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