Feb 24, 2010

Meetings Africa Day One

Welcome to Meetings Africa 2010,

The event started with a cocktail party at the Radisson Hotel in Sandton. Hosted Buyers meet Exhibitors function. Highlight was a very funny comment from our Minister of Tourism, Mr Van Schalkwyk, who said " The reason I have survived 20 years in public office is that I have learnt that if there is a contest between listening to a politician speak and good wine, good wine wins every time, so I will keep this speech short". Who knew he had a sense of humour?

I attended a very interesting speech on day one on "The importance of Events Greening". A thought provoking session. Dr Elling Hamso, from the European ROI Institute posted a very valid quote from Kofi Annan, "Governments will only follow when businesses lead". This is very valid when it comes to greening issues. We were introduced to The Event Greening Forum which has been established to promote event greening in South Africa. Feel free to view their website http://eventgreening.co.za/ . Its about time!!!

Other than that it was business as usual or unusual!

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