destinations & resources management: a communication agency

Happy Birthday to our local Geneva Conference and Exhibitions Center! Click on this link to

discover their festivities…and enjoy these premises;-)) Please note that access is

free for all on the 11.11.11 at the Automnales.

Le week-end prochain, pourquoi ne pas aller picniquer dans un vigneron indépendant…? Voici le lien vers l’événement (cliquez ici).

CLIQUEZ également sur  lien pour retrouver le fichier excel sur tous les domaines participant à l’opération. >> Animations piquenique Merci à l’émission On va Déguster de France Inter pour avoir signaler cette info que nous reprenons telle quelle.

Parmi mes préférés:

Franck et Catherine GOURDON Pied Flond à MARTIGNE BRIAND (49540)

 visite du domaine, dégustation des vins de la propriété, apéritif et pique-nique sous les cerisiers (suivant la météo), animation musicale au rythme de la visite et du pique-nique avec la participation de la chorale « Chant’Anjou » (variété française), exposition sur « l’Homme et la Vigne, une histoire d’amour », animations sur les sens, quizz sur le vignoble pour petits et grands, jeux pour les enfants.

voir aussi leurs voisins. lien vers le syndicat des vignerons angevins

Daniel Chénais

  Randonnée vigne et lac : 2 h00 (facile en famille)
randonnée découverte guidée du vignoble et du lac de Grandlieu
visite des caves et dégustation et présentation de Photos sur le lac, sa faune et sa flore.

13 h 00 ic Nic

15 h 00 : randonnée découverte guidée du vignoble et du lac de Grandlieu
Accueil pour enfants ( jeux animations) LOIRE VENDEE

Well, well….I needed time, I guess, to recover from having jumped into a new, more academic, life….almost two years since I signed off my last meeting for the Global Humanitarian Forum, six months before the latter collapsed.

It’s now time for me to keep sharing the news I receive from my former business partners if this seems interesting for the friends and colleagues who still seem to want me to write.

I have definitely turned a page on running association (when you’ve had Kofi Annan as a client…who else are you going to want to serve?…) but still look at offers for my former colleagues and give a hand at editing document. So you’ll hear more from me as soon as I have finished gardening, probably by September 2011!

Money or Monnet in Paris?

“We are glad to inform you that next Saturday, March the 13rd, we are opening the III Ciclo de Actividades de la Judería de Segovia (3rd Course of Activities of the Jewish Quarter of Segovia), organized by Empresa Municipal de Turismo in partnership with Casa Sefarad-Israel. Along with this message you can find the complete schedule of this new Course. As we hope you may be interested, we are glad to send you all the information. CONTACT <juderia@turismodesegovia.com>

The first conference in our Course will be titled “Cuaderno de la Judería” (Notebook of the Jewish Quarter), and will be held by its authors Mrs Isabel Sánchez Pardo, Mrs María Sánchez Agustí, Mr Isidoro González Gallego, Mr Juan Francisco Hernández Cordero and Mr Fernando Larriba Naranjo.
The appointment will be the 13th of March, at 20:00 in the Centro Didáctico de la Judería de Segovia (Didactic Centre of the Jewish Quarter of Segovia), 12th Judería Vieja Street, Segovia, Spain.
Do not hesitate to contact us for any additional information or suggestion.
Hoping to have your invaluable presence, and that the proposed activity will attract your interest”

Claudia de Santos Borreguero
Concejala de Patrimonio Histórico y Turismo
City Councilor on Heritage and Tourism

JUDERÍA 2010 open the PDF

Dear Colleagues,

As much as I’ve enjoyed managing some great conferences worldwide, and still intend to manage a happy few in the future, I’ve decided that DRM was in fact a network of individuals, not a company. You hire knowledgeable, charming, dynamic consultants and we love to share our address book, but I’ve decided that I would keep for the coming years a more academic approach and stop hoping that Civil Society can act cohesively to such an extent as to feed me everyday!

I’m back to teaching my dear friends, which of course doesn’t prevent me from taking up the irresistible mandates of the kind I’ve enjoyed looking after, nor does it prevent me from organising little jewels for my favourite destination partners, but I prefer to retain the academic rather than the logistic management of things. I’m a strong believer that they work hand in hand anyhow, and so are you if you read my blogs…so here are the news, just on time with the spring sunshine smiling to us today after such a long and cold winter!

Cheers!!!!

I guess being too busy to write is a good excuse but if I don’t inform my partners, colleagues and friends, what’s the use…?
Anyhow, the first six months of 2009 at DRM were almost purely logistical with the management of two major international conferences, the Kofi Annan Foundation‘s first International conference and the Global Humanitarian Forum‘s eponym event and centerpiece, the Forum 2009.

Things look a little different in the second part in that I will try to focus on more academic projects, such as boosting our Academie Sans Frontières – Borderless Academy, contributing to a project I’ve been supporting from Day One, Benjamin Barber’s Interdependence Day which will take place in Istanbul, organizing incentive seminars with my Croatian Partners in Paris and Brussels and of course devoting a larger part to my own research and teaching, including delivering a paper at the First International Conference on Mediterranean Languages to take place in Cyprus in October.

However, logistics are a core of DRM’s very specific segment of the meeting market, allying in a unique way academic expertise and international meetings management. We will thus also be in charge of the Congrès International de la Restauration, a prestigious congress gathering restaurant owners and related services, Place is Geneva, specific venue yet undetermined due to a recent date change! We are now looking at mid-end of March!

Following a recent experience at the Forum 2009, I also decided to include in DRM’s services the provision of a network of outstanding reporters for International Meetings. Check our Services Page for more information and of course, as usual, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Regarding my personal civil involvement, let me simply mention a few highlights, Paddle For Cancer 2009 with the American International Club in Geneva on September 6th, UIA General Assembly, from 12 to 14th November and of course APE Ferney which I serve devotedly as Secretary for too many years!

I cannot close this very brief newsletter without point out some of my partners who have been particularly involved in my recent activities, starting with my webmaster, Laurence Attouz, who is a precious and devoted consultant on travels and so many other logistical items, Milan Cupic, my Croatian Partner, in charge of the Italian, Slovenian and Eastern European Market, and of course my dear Jean-François Dor whose friendly advice I always consult with great pleasure!
A warm regards to our ever expanding network!
Have a pleasant Fall or Spring depending on your Hemisphere! … and…one last thing: DRM is back into DRM’s HQ and no longer with clients’ outside offices…here’s the view!

check it out….If I can, I’ll use them and I am not paid to say so!!! It’s an old convent (13th century ). Apparently ideal for groups for up to 50 comfortably ( 66 roooms, one conference facility can host 300 and the others are between 10 and 55) this Hotel and Conference facility is located in the French Riviera. Details about conference rooms: click here. I’d love to make a bid on your behalf!!!

Despite my best intentions, keeping this blog alive from November onwards was impossible…two large events for the Kofi Annan Foundation and the Global Humanitarian Forum respectively at the end of March and June, have proved way too demanding to accommodate with a writing pace….

Now, DRM is closed for the holidays and will reopen on August 17th. One thing I should mention right away is that the coming year 2009-2010 will be devoted to a more academic approach of my activities. Logistics is always fun and challenging, but I recently experienced how frustrating it can be when I simply comply with clients’ requests without having the influencial part for which they actually pay me…

I also want to dedicate more time to my teaching activities. I have come to realize how much they mean to me and how intellectually fulfilling it can be, even while teaching high school kids in Geneva! So, ready for the match?

Sorry pals, not doing much in terms of communication on this blog. The thing is that I am in the middle of the preparation of the Meeting of the Kofi Annan Foundation on Kenya National Dialogue and reconciliation, in the starting blocks of the Global Humanitarian Forum 2009, finishing a paper for Headquarters and teaching two days a week…How about doing your share of contribution by submitting interesting papers out here???