Month: April 2018

A delegation from the Tourism and Congress Department (DTC), accompanied by several Principality tourism partners, travelled to India, specifically to Goa, Pune and Bombay, for a promotional tour organised by the Indian Representation Office of the DTC during the third week of March.

The Monegasque delegation was led by Corinne Kiabski, DTC’s Director of Communications, and Charlotte Valli, South Asian Markets Manager in DTC’s Marketing and Sales Department. They were accompanied by Koji Ito from the Fairmont, Sophie Ducroux for the SBM and Sophie Codogno for the Méridien Beach Plaza, and Dominique Milardi, President of the Monegasque Association of Sommeliers.

In Goa, around 30 travel agents and opinion leaders took part in a fun weekend dedicated to discovering the Principality. Corinne Kiabski, supported by Jamal Sheikh, publisher of Hindustan Times and Huma Qureschi, the Bollywood actress, enabled guests to discover the many facets of Monaco, thanks to the new campaign of the DTC, “Green is the new Glam.”

Also in Goa, Dominique Milardi, President of the Monegasque Association of Sommeliers, offered interactive tastings of Indian and French wines to various invited audiences. It was then on to Pune, the second largest city in the province of Maharashtra, where the delegation continued its promotional tour with tourism and media professionals.

Finally, in Mumbai, Rajeev Nangia, head of the DTC’s representative office in India, and his team introduced hotel partners to wedding planners. The wedding industry in India is a very important sector and is of great interest to tourism professionals in Monaco.

India is the fifth largest economy in the world and is showing remarkable growth. Great opportunities for the Principality and its tourist market are to be expected.

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It was your average Pub Quiz Night in Monaco, with a Prince on the winning team and two top-seeded tennis stars all testing their knowledge on geography, cinema and pop culture.

MonacoUSA hosted its annual brainteaser on Tuesday to a sold-out crowd at Stars’n’Bars with the highly-energetic quizmasters Peter Mackley and Philippe Decreus.

More than 100 guests competed, including tennis players Grigor Dimitrov and David Goffin on Team ATP and Sir Stelios on the Easy Team, as well as teams from the British Association, Outward Bound, the Harvard Club and Team Powers, led by the MonacoUSA President Mike Powers.

Team Sandel, with Monaco Life’s Publisher Eric Brundage and Susan Feaster, CEO of Ryder Cup France 2018 US Partners Club, finished the evening in second place.

The winning team’s captain was also the popular event’s longest-serving competitor during its 20-year history, HSH Prince Albert.

As Kate Powers best summed up: “Quiz night felt like a big reunion of old friends getting back together. It was such a fun and enthusiastic night.”

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Tuesday night the inauguration of the photographic exhibition on dolphins, whales and sperm whales, which regularly frequent the waters of the Mediterranean, took place in the presence of Prince Albert at the Galerie des Pêcheurs.

Also in attendance for the special event, Ségolène Royal, Ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic Poles and Special Envoy for the Implementation of the International Solar Alliance, Fannie Dubois, Executive Secretary of the PELAGOS Agreement, Florence Descroix-Comanducci, Executive Secretary of the ACCOBAMS Agreement, Cyril Gomez, Director General of the Ministry of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development and Chair of the Meeting of the Parties to the PELAGOS Agreement and HE Bernard Fautrier, Vice-President of the PA2F.

The inauguration was followed by a Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretariats ACCOBAMS and PELAGOS agreements.

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Recognition for campaigns against plastic

Monaco will contribute €2.6 million to health, education and socio-professional integration projects for young people in Lebanon over the next three years, L’Orient Le Jour reports.
A Monegasque delegation, led by Minister of External Relations and Cooperation Gilles Tonelli, arrived in Beirut on Monday, April 9, to launch the projects.

The Principality wants to “strengthen its partnership with Lebanon, mainly in the sectors where it can help it profit from its experience and its contribution, in particular the humanitarian sectors, education and health,” said Minister Tonelli, who was received by the head of state, Michel Aoun, in the presence of the consul of Monaco in Beirut, Béchara el-Khoury.

Mr Tonelli also extended an invitation from Prince Albert II to visit the Principality.
Monaco’s cooperation with Lebanon dates back to 1993, when it was mainly focused on the environment, resulting in the planting of cedars and the cleaning of the coastline.

The Minister said that in the next few years, the Principality would like to participate in the international effort to help Lebanon in the framework of the conferences of Rome and Paris and soon of Brussels.

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The third edition of the Monaco Symposium on Luxury, organised by the International University of Monaco (IUM) and INSEEC U, one of the leaders in higher education
institutions in France, will take place on April 12 and 13 at the Meridien Beach Plaza.

The organisers say that this is the only international event creating fruitful interactions, sharing knowledge and know-how between researchers and top executives in the luxury fields.

Created in 2014, the Monaco Symposium on Luxury is an initiative of the INSEEC Management Research Centre, which employs experienced and renowned researchers in marketing and brand management from INSEEC Business School and IUM.

The initial idea was to invite researchers and professors from the best Universities and Business Schools to present their research papers in Luxury Marketing, and the 2014 and 2016 editions have been very successful in gathering these outstanding researchers.

“As it’s organised in Monaco by my department that has strong relationships with luxury brands, we have inserted in the programme, year after year, more business case studies, business panel discussions and business presentations,” said Sophie de Lorenzo, Director of Corporate Relations at IUM, co-organiser of the Monaco Symposium of Luxury.

“We can say today that the Monaco Symposium is the unique international event where excellence in academics and excellence in business converge towards in-depth and cutting-edge analysis, latest trends, and best practice in all the fields of luxury.”

In the 2018 edition, 42 academic presentations and 30 business testimonials will highlight recent findings and best practice on the upcoming trends and challenges of the luxury industry, including designing and enhancing the luxury shopper’s emotional journey in the “phygital” sphere; cross-cultural dynamics between reason and emotion when making a luxury purchase; the future of luxury experiences, the future of luxury retail; bespoke products, luxury designers, designers of emotions; and the value of a brand: creating sustainable growth for sustainable luxury brands.

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