Meetings and Incentive Travel

2 months ago | mitmagazine.co.uk | Paul Harvey

To mark National Apprenticeship Week, four apprentices from across the events and hospitality sector share their experiences - and reveal why more businesses need to consider the apprentice option. Can you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your apprenticeship? I’m Ellis Madle, and I’m 19. I started my apprenticeship two days after I my A-Levels, so I didn’t have a break and went straight into work.

2 months ago | mitmagazine.co.uk | Paul Harvey

What’s the current focus at BCD Meetings & Events? Helen McCabe: We saw in 2022 and 2023 two excessively good years following the pandemic. Last year we embarked on the three-year Thinking Forward strategy - year one is all about building our foundation. The new normal is clear, so let's start and think further ahead, rather than the place we were in during the pandemic.

Jan 20, 2025 | mitmagazine.co.uk | Sally Trelford

Sally Trelford marks three decades of train links to the continent by checking out the latest event offerings in London and Brussels Where were you in 1994? You may not even have been born. But for those of us old enough to remember, the opening of Eurostar and chance to travel by rail to Paris seemed something of a miracle. And not just for the astonishing engineering of the Channel Tunnel.

Jan 15, 2025 | mitmagazine.co.uk | Holly Patrick

There’s a new, luxury address in the Caribbean archipelago of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines that every incentive planner should know about. So, Holly Patrick took on the arduous task of experiencing this new resort first-hand so she could tell you all about it… Sandals Saint Vincent and The Grenadines resort is set on 50 acres of land and framed by rainforest-covered mountains, often crowned by rainbows.

Oct 10, 2024 | mitmagazine.co.uk | Paul Harvey

The Power of Play, Broadsword’s latest B.Inspired event, showed that games and toys aren't just for children - they can put a rocket under your business events. Learning through play is an established theory in education and psychology to describe how children learn about the world and themselves through play. Play is seen as a natural way for children to learn and develop social and emotional skills, cognitive skills, physical skills, and resilience.