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Welcome Aboard
NEW FACES + NEW BUSINESS
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| A big hello to our new hires. We are excited to have you with us at MMGY Global! Welcome to TravelDesk: Emmanuel Oladimeji, Senior Programmatic Performance Manager. To Grifco: Charlie Wareing, Junior Account Executive. To Hills Balfour: Jessica Staley, Account Director, PR; Joshua Chitticks, Account Manager, Sales and Marketing; Ronnie Lim, Account Manager, MICE.
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We are excited to have won the following business:
Grifco
Susona Bodrum LXR Hotels & Resorts, hotel PR; Lamington Group, PR brand retainer; Missionworks, PR project
Hills Balfour
Santa Monica x Brighton Partnership Project, PR
TravelDesk with MMGY EMEA
Singapore Airlines-Northern Territory; Singapore Airlines-Queensland; Idiliq Group, web design; Tourism Whitsundays
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First Class
individual + team achievements
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| Grifco held an extremely successful Supper Club at the ultra-cool ME London hotel. Thirty of the UK's finest journalists attended and have showered the team with praise: "It was a fantastic event," The Telegraph; "A great turnout," Daily Mail; "Fabulous!" BA High Life. |
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| The NYC & Company team hosted over 50 key media, trade and MICE guests at NoMad London. The President & CEO, Fred Dixon, provided an update on the tourism recovery strategy for NYC and the latest news from the city's five boroughs. Guests were treated to a West End performance from the musical "Chicago," iconic NYC taxi cookies and journalist Jacqui Agate won a trip to NYC courtesy of BA
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| Amanda Hills traveled to Atlanta this month to join Travel South USA's Global Summit. Amanda gave a presentation on the recovery of international travel from Europe to the USA, especially to the South, and the post-pandemic landscape for travel destinations and travel marketing strategies. |
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| A special thank you to Natasha Rowe who supported the creation of Amanda's deck for Travel South USA's Global Summit. |
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| Congratulations to Samantha Martini who helped host the highly successful launch event of The Georgian, Coppa Club. Key VIP guests, including the Mayor of Haslemere and local councillors, attended to celebrate the hotel's opening. |
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| Jerilee Pinto accompanied our Dubai client for 11 days on a sales mission around Europe. Not only were there multiple event buyer visits and great client feedback but she also showed amazing reserve in avoiding the various high-end handbag boutiques during their weekend in Rome! |
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| Massive shout out to the team working on the San Francisco x Virgin Atlantic "A Royal Welcome" campaign. The competition went live this week to search for the UK's next undiscovered drag performer. The winner wins a once in a lifetime trip to San Francisco to perform at iconic club Oasis alongside drag stars Kitty Scott-Claus and Vanity Milan. |
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| The Bermuda team recently completed a very successful tour operator and media FAM trip on island. We enjoyed showing off beautiful Bermuda and provided first-hand experience of the island, hotel and attractions to operators that have never sold Bermuda before. |
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| The Arizona PR and trade team hosted an amazing Arizona-themed wellness event at Sky Gardens. Operators were able to participate in a group yoga session and training followed by a healthy breakfast - Arizona style. Heaven! |
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| The DPR team travelled to Puerto Rico for their first quarterly ARP meeting, where Kiera Greenwood conducted an international roundtable discussion with 30 key island stakeholders. The goal was to increase engagement with international plans and bring across support for on-island activity. It was an amazing success, and we received fantastic feedback from the client. |
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| Big shoutout to Freddie Pinkerton who has just represented STA at his first trade event where he got up on stage and presented to a room full of people. What a way to get stuck in! |
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Frequent Flyer
All things office + Community Happenings
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Upcoming Office Closure |
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee Bank Holidays, Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June. Have a wonderful time everyone!
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GO DO GOOD + SUMMER PARTY |
Please hold week 20th June in your diaries for Agency Week and Wednesday 29th June for our Go Do Good day and Summer Party!
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Fasten Your Seatbelts
Milestones
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| Happy Anniversary! |
Rachel Wilkinson (7 years)
Jerilee Pinto (4 years)
Katie Smith (1 year)
Robyn Holberry (1 year)
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| Running for the TRIBE |
| Margaret Mann will be running 250km in 6 days in Croatia to support the TRIBE Freedom Foundation, which is raising funds to build a third safe house in London for female survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery. DONATE HERE |
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Congratulations are in order!
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| We are all so happy for Niamh Walsh who had her beautiful wedding in South Africa this month. It looked absolutely stunning. What a gorgeous photo! |
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Mountains conquered!
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| Huge congratulations to Isabelle Thomas for completing the Three Yorkshire Peaks Challenge and raising £2,500 for Doctors Without Borders' work in Ukraine. Isi and her friends conquered the mountains of Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough on 29th April in a total of 11 hours and 42 minutes. Thank you to everyone at MMGY Global who kindly donated. |
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Travel Itinerary
Access to all business opportunities
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Employee Engagement Survey
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| The 2022 Employee Engagement survey is coming soon. Look out for this in June. |
Sessions for Hills Balfour
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The following training sessions for relevant Hills Balfour employees will be diarised shortly. Sessions include Emotional Intelligence, Understanding of EQ and a Sharing Session.
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The Exit Row
Interesting + Fun + TWICE THE LEG ROOM
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| MMGY Global UK office held it's Wellness Week, week 9th May, as a nod to Mental Health Awareness Week. With yoga and Pilates classes, fun runs, a step challenge, a talk on mental health and healthy snack deliveries, we hope everyone has come away from the week feeling refreshed and motivated.. |
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| Emma Morgan recently headed out to New York to explore the latest that Hudson Yards has to offer, including the new City Climb attraction, the highest open-air building ascent in the world. Climbers scale the outside of a skyscraper more than 1,200 feet above the ground. We can’t wait to be shouting about it to the UK! |
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| Spotted! Isabelle Thomas and Samantha Martini leading the inaugural group press trip to Gatsby Athens Hotel, which opened in autumn 2022. Media attendees included The Sunday Times, Press Association, Metro and Fabric Magazine. The jet set team also visited Sicily in April for a press trip with Villatravellers and is heading off to Portugal in May with Quinta do Lago. |
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| Special mention to Ellen Christophers and Camilla Horner who have continued to secure stellar coverage for room2 Chiswick. Hits have included the FT, Condé Nast Traveller, CBS and The New York Times. The team also received an amazing compliment from another client, Idiliq Group, who described them as "brilliant, helpful, professional and positive." Here they are having a well-deserved break during a trip to Spain! |
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