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How has Social Media Changed the Tourism Industry?

Solimar International

But the explosion of social media platforms between 2006 and 2010 connected individuals around the world like never before, paving the way for another industry upheaval under social media marketing. Airlines didn’t begin selling tickets online until 1994, and hotels followed a year later. Let’s rewind to 2004. Advertisements .

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A Dickens of a Breakthrough

Convene by PCMA

The code was finally cracked by a group of Dickens experts and computer scientists who worked together in a three-part series of online sessions convened by Wood and Bowles. Neither Eventbrite nor Zoom, founded in 2006 and 2011, respectively, are new, but such broad access to both — particularly to Zoom — is a recent result of the pandemic.

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Learn How to Find Your Joy and Spread it Around!

Motivation Excellence

It started in 2006 with more than 1,400 students enrolling in Psy 1504: Positive Psychology. There are multiple joy-centered Harvard courses offered today for students, and at least one business course, Managing Happiness, accessed online for free , for us non-Harvard admits (the next one starts in March!).

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Swiss Sustainability Forum to lead a sustainability agenda in Bern

The MICE Blog

Since 2006, Kursaal has been a member of the climate platform of the city of Bern and has had 21 different projects there. The organisers would love to keep the travelling of speakers at a minimum, and yet the impact of speaker contribution is different if they are on site or online.

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Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings

Conferences that Work

Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. In 2006, Cory Doctorow wrote: “Conversation is king. Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Someone to tell it to at conferences. Content is just something to talk about.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. This annual two-day event, first held in 2006, is an opportunity for event agencies from forty countries to present their best projects in person to juries and BEA World delegates. In 2023, in-person is back! And, you know what?

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Sports Events 365 expects China expansion to reach USD3 million in first year

Travel Daily Media

Set up in 2006, the Israel-based organisation has for the last 12 years been building its value and reputation, steadily increasing its reach to customers across 150 countries with almost 60,000 different events annual events.

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