Oysters
The Where the World is Your Oyster brand brings you literally 'the world' under one roof with 18 individual pearls to discover. Each pearl represents an international tourist board or convention bureaux totally dedicated to providing inspiring, unbiased, relevant and up-to-date information to help you plan and organise a future event.
Meet the experts all under one roof and boost your knowledge across major conference and incentive destinations around the world.
Abu Dhabi, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Dubai, France, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Jersey, Monaco, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
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Angela Bates |
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Abu Dhabi is fast-emerging as a leading destination for niche tourism sectors, from luxury leisure travel through to meetings and incentives. Its attractions are diverse and one of its greatest assets is that it is still relatively undiscovered as it aims to attract discerning visitors and avoid the pitfalls associated with mass tourism. With daily direct flights from across the UK, excellent high quality accommodation, modern infrastructure and well-equipped facilities, Abu Dhabi provides the perfect setting for events and conventions. |
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Iris Einoeder |
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Get professional advice and the latest news and ideas on event and meeting opportunities in Austria. This alpine country is world-famous for its versatility, combining rich imperial and traditional history with contemporary culture, and providing high quality service and warm hospitality. The country’s infrastructure provides an excellent setting for a huge variety of incentive activities. |
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Lene Corgan www.businessevents.australia.com Alex Mallard
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Australia is a highly inspirational incentive destination and fires the imagination like nowhere else on earth. With amazing scenery, wide open spaces, sophisticated cities and an incredible variety of activities it guarantees visitors a unique and unforgettable experience. Explore the rainforest, dive the reef, take a hot air balloon ride and meet the world’s oldest indigenous culture all combined with enjoying some of the finest wines and cuisine in the world - making Australia the perfect place to re-energise, re-motivate and reward a group. Tourism Australia offers free independent advice and assistance to event planners, so please contact our team in London, and let us help you plan the ultimate incentive experience! |
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Philippe Maree
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The Brussels-Wallonia Convention Bureau acts as a link between the supply and the demand. Its main embedive is to identify needs, to advise and to recommend services or service companies that are suited to the demand - to the very best of its ability. With more than 70 international airlines serve Brussels International Airport, the high speed trains Eurostar & Thalis, the excellent highway system it make the destination easily accessible. With Brussels, the world-renowned congress city, and Wallonia (Southern Belgium) a haven of peace and greenery, are two different yet complementary destinations at your doorstep. |
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Jadis Tillery |
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Canada. Think, a vibrant nation full of people, colour, nightlife, art, architecture, shopping, music, culinary traditions, fashion, and of course, stunning scenery and adventure. Fly just 6 1/2 hours from Heathrow to mainland East Coast. We’ve world class facilities and unique venues at our fingertips. And imagine… Underwater canoe races, heli-ski on fresh powder snow, Dine at the ‘Top of the World’, have breakfast with Beluga whales or experience the thrill of whitewater rafting. Planning an extraordinary corporate event for your most valued clients? You’re already on the edge of an amazing adventure, click here to keep exploring. |
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Emma Ford |
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The Cayman Islands offer a sophisticated infrastructure along side Caribbean charm Nestled in clear warm Caribbean waters, with world-class hotels and beachside conference rooms, Cayman caters to guests’ needs with warmth and hospitality, from a small meeting for 10 to a conference for 1,000. We’re perfect for incentive groups: from thrilling helicopter rides, catamaran cruises to Stingray City, kayaking through mangroves or exploring our Robinson Crusoe style island, Little Cayman, there’s so much to choose from. Getting to Cayman is easy, with four weekly British Airways flights direct to the Cayman Islands from Heathrow and daily connections via Miami. |
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Lillian Panayi |
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The jewel of the Mediterranean has emerged successfully into the conference market in the past two decades. In Cyprus you will find a complete range of conference services of high international standards, with business-class hotels, a wide selection of venues for meetings and social activities, friendly professionals with a wealth of experience in the meetings industry and excellent communication facilities. Its exciting blend of dramatic scenery and a rich archaeological inheritance coupled with the warm hospitality of its people and year-round perfect weather gives each conference or incentive a unique character. A combination of pine-clad mountain slopes and crystal-clear sea drenched by the sun, Cyprus’s spectacular scenery can make a powerful backdrop to stunning product launches and extravagant incentives. To brush-up your corporate image and intensify motivation, Cyprus is not just a one-off experience, but magic to be treasured for a lifetime: a successful merge of business with pleasure. |
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Jonathan Cohen |
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Ines Lebaek |
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Any meeting in Denmark is bound to come off with flying colours. Not only are the local partners geared to doing everything they can to ensure good results; Denmark also has a broad range of conference facilities to match any need - as well as a host of unconventional options to turn any meeting into a highly memorable experience. Copenhagen has long-standing experience as a conference and congress city and as such it ranks among the best in the world. Denmark is also certain to exceed your expectations as an incentive destination with it's spell-binding story telling and creative solutions. Denmark provides a perfect setting for conference & incentive groups as everything is affordable. There are no great distances to travel and there are countless opportunities for excursions and special events. In Copenhagen you can enjoy a small town friendliness, so rare in a capital city. You will be able to get to know the local people with ease, since the majority of Danes speak very good English. VisitDenmark in London is your primary source of information on accommodation, transportation and visitor attractions. We will identify the hotels and facilities that best meet your clients' individual requirements and provide you with a budget and itinerary according to your specifications. So please don't hesitate to contact the conference and incentive travel department at VisitDenmark. We are here to make your planning easier! |
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Nicole Bobb |
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Dubai is undisputedly one of the most exciting and dynamic destinations in the world right now. A fast growing MICE destination, Dubai offers luxurious and iconic hotels, world-class conference and exhibition facilities, a plethora of exciting incentive activities and unrivalled levels of service and hospitality. Driving new business opportunities is the expansion of the Dubai World Trade Centre and the development of Dubai Exhibition World, an ambitious plan to add 300,000 square meters of event space near the upcoming new airport. Due for completion in 2010, this area will offer an all encompassing solution for the events industry. In 2002 The Government of Dubai, Department of Tourism & Commerce Marketing (DTCM) initiated the Dubai Synergy programme and has since been successfully promoting Dubai as a prime MICE destination through incentive trips and networking lunches. Our dedicated team in London can provide you with literature, information on new developments, advice and connect you with the right suppliers for your next event in Dubai. |
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Veruschka Becquart |
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Marianne Hericourt |
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The aim of the French Convention Bureau (FCB) is to promote France as a "Conference & Incentive" destination to the corporate, the C&I agencies and to national and international associations. Let us be your partner in France and whenever you choose to go, our team will help you make your group experience be a total success. We will assist you with advice, workshops, familiarisation trips, promotional material, and put you in touch with suppliers. Answers guaranteed in 48 hours. |
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Makis Peppas |
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The 2004 Olympic Games helped demonstrate that Greece has the knowledge, the venues and the expertise to be taken seriously as a conference destination. The Olympics saw the government and private sector investing in a huge range of infrastructure developments of benefit to both the tourism and the conference sectors. As an attractive event destination Greece endorses its easy access, safety, culture, variety, beauty, mild climate all year round, expertise, quality services, unique venues and competitive prices. Conference tourism holds an important place in the promotion of the renewed Greek tourism portfolio. For conference and meetings planners looking for a professional and modern approach in a beautiful and inspiring backdrop, Greece ticks all the right boxes. |
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Are you interested in organising a conference or a meeting in Holland? Are you planning an incentive trip? Then you have found the right contact! The Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions (NBTC) has a dedicated MICE department that is here to help you . This department has specialist knowledge on all different sectors of the industry, so whether you organise Meetings, Incentives, Conferences or Exhibitions, you are in safe hands. The NBTC is a non-profit organisation that brings supply and demand together. Apart from providing you with information on the destination through our website, our directory, our magazine, our newsletter and our face-to-face events, we can also assist you with your brief to make sure you find the most suitable venue or partner in Holland. |
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David Boyce |
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Choose Ireland for your next business event and you will come back with more than just happy memories. With over 100 air routes from 29 British Airports, Ireland has never been closer. The dynamic cities of Dublin and Belfast can offer both state-of-the-art hotels and facilities and unique, quirky venues. Improved air and infrastructure access means that Ireland’s other cities are also now key players in the conference and meetings business. Experience the culture of Cork, the history of Londonderry or the vibrancy of Limerick. Each region offers visitors a completely different experience. Lonely Planet has voted Ireland the world’s friendliest destination – choose Ireland to experience it for yourself. Make Tourism Ireland your first contact when planning your next event. |
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Hamish Reid |
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Jersey is a lot more than a little bit of Britain. It’s Britain with brio, England with a generous dash of continental Europe. It’s an Island that conjures up an intriguing mix of sights and sounds, images and influences, all within just 45 square miles. Located 100 miles from the English coast and only 14 miles from the French coast, Jersey has a rich cultural mix. The Island has a wealth of new hotels and venues as well as services and attractions - everything in fact a conference and incentive organiser could wish for. Be enthused by choosing Jersey. |
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Stephan Roberge |
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The MTA London (Monaco Tourist Authority) is here to prove how important our UK customers are for us. My team Tatiana Rizzo trizzo@gouv.mc and Bertil Weil bweil@gouv.mc are very keen to meet you and explain why Monaco should be your next destination. Our aim is to help you source the perfect venue and provide you with honest advices to ensure the success of every business or event you bring in our very compact country. With your one-stop shop in the UK we can: |
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Valentina Beteta |
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Spain stands out as a choice destination and therefore the destination of choice for conferences and business tourism. As much as for its outstanding conference facilities, climate, transport and communication infrastructure, as for the quality and variety of its accommodation and scenic beauty. For its fascinating historic heritage, gastronomy and fiestas as much as for its cities and towns and the variety of leisure and sports activities they offer. And above all, for its friendly, hospitable highly professional people whose commitment and dedication will ensure that Spain is your guarantee of success. |
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Christopher Jolly |
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VisitSweden is a non-profit making organisation responsible for the international marketing of both the Sweden brand and the destination. VisitSweden is your primary source of information, ideas and contacts regarding meetings, incentives and conferences in Sweden. |
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Caroline Phillips-Pidroni |
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