 We have to hand it to Reed Travel Exhibitions for AIME 2008. We had so much positive feedback on this year’s event, particularly from exhibitors, that it would be remiss of us not to give them a big, fat thumbs up. The exhibition floor not only looked a million dollars but it was apparently full of highly qualified visitors who had plenty of business on their mind. Well done guys!
 We’re all for the environment here but were a little bemused with a press release we received recently (via email). It was from a venue who “demonstrated its commitment to the environment and its local community” when some staff members collected litter from a local park as part of Business Clean Up Day. This was indeed a nice thing to do but did it really warrant a press release from the venue demonstrating how environmentally aware it was? We think not!
The safes are safe at Crown Promenade in Melbourne as our esteemed editor Brad Foster discovered. On the way to the airport after AIME he remembered he had left the company camera lens in the safe and quickly phoned the hotel. Less than half an hour later he was contacted by hotel security who informed him that they had the lens in their hot little hands and that they would pass it onto a colleague who was still in the hotel. They said they’d do the same with the pants they also found hanging in the wardrobe. Oops!
What is it with soft launches? You get invited to view something new – like a new venue - and the thing is not quite finished yet. Obviously it’s to get you all excited about what it is you’re supposed to be looking at except you often can’t get an idea what the finished product will look like until it’s… well… finished. This is when you get invited to go to the “official opening” where everything is as it should be. Except you can’t make it this time because you went to the soft opening and you can only spend so much time unchained from your desk. How ‘bout we all hold hands and agree that official openings are the way to go?
Congratulations to all the MEA state award winners from around the country who were successful this year, and commiserations to those who didn’t quite get there. Recognition by your industry peers is a thoroughly worthy endeavour and we commend everybody who entered. Best of luck to all finalists in the national awards which will be announced at the MEA National Conference in Alice Springs in May.
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