Business tourism
53 professionals from the Madrid MICE sector take part in a networking event organised by the CBGCB
MARCH 2014
The Costa Brava Girona Convention Bureau, the business, meetings and conference tourism marketing club of the Girona area, run by the Costa Brava Girona Tourist Board, presented the MICE tourism offering of the Girona area to 53 travel agents and event organisers of the metropolitan area of Madrid.
Several Girona-based organisations and companies took part in the networking event, including the Girona Conference Centre, the Lloret Convention Bureau, Hotel Terraza, Evenia Hotels, AC Hotel Palau de Bellavista by Marriott, Sallés Hotels, Hotel Santa Marta, Hostal de la Gavina, Novotel Girona Airport, the Aiguablava Parador, URH Girona Hotel, Meliá Golf Vichy Catalán, Ciutat Esportiva Blanes, the Association of Tour Guides of Girona and the Costa Brava Girona Convention Bureau itself.
The Spanish companies that took part in the event were Repsol YPF, Telefónica España, Philip Morris International Spain, Viajes Carrefour Central, Halcón Viajes Eventos, Central Carlson Wagonlit Travel, First Group, the Spanish Association of Destination Management Companies, the Spanish Association of Business Travel Managers and Across Spain, among others.
The professional gathering featured a Catalan cuisine session led by the chef Jordi Castelló, of the company I Cook It, who prepared and served sweet Catalan sausage from Empordà with apple and a sea and mountain rice dish using rice from Pals.
