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Welcome Aboard
NEW BUSINESS + NEW FACES
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+ New faces
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A big hello to our new hires. We are excited to have you with us at MMGY Global! Welcome to Hills Balfour: Amy Lake, Account Executive, PR. To MMGY EMEA: Molly O'Keefe, Account Executive. To Grifco: Kirsten Simm, Junior Account Manager, and Kitty Northcote, PR Intern.
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+ New business
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Hills Balfour: Saudi Tourism Authority, Support International Offices UK, Integrated Marketing; Saudi Tourism Authority: JW Marriott Maldives, PR; Marriott International, APEC, PR; Santa Monica Upweight Activation, Integrated Marketing. Wonderful Copenhagen, MICE – European remit for the associations sector for Copenhagen, one of Europe's leading conventions hosting cities and the instigators of the Legacy Lab for events. This was a three-way competitive pitch and a reputation-enhancing win!
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MMGY EMEA: Singapore Airlines: New Zealand, Singapore Airlines, ANZ (MMGY Global); Greece National Tourist Office, Media; ETC US Partnership Campaign, Media; ETC / EHTTA, Traffic Driving Campaign, Media; ETC / San Marino "Lovely Places" Campaign, Media.
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Travel Intelligence: New sponsors secured for Portrait of American International Travelers™: Destination Vancouver and Saudi Tourism Authority bringing the total number of sponsors for this project to five, which was the ultimate goal. Custom research commissioned by Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing – a survey among outbound U.S. travellers.
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First Class
individual + team achievements
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Sarah Sheehan has been appointed Senior Associate Director of Grifco and will be covering Alexandra Delf, EVP, Managing Director of Grifco, during Alexandra's maternity leave, which is starting in August. Sarah has over 35 years' experience in international PR and marketing and has led award-winning campaigns for the industry's biggest players including Hong Kong, Malta, Queensland, Visit Florida and Norwegian Cruise Line. For any new business opportunities for Grifco PR, please reach out to Sarah.
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Grifco and TravelDesk collaborated on a massively successful Jubilee campaign for Oliver's Travels. Emma Welby's team at Grifco devised the concept and managed the photoshoot, and then the team brought in TravelDesk who smashed the digital advertising campaign. Grifco secured press coverage in top national titles including The Mail on Sunday, Mail Online, Daily Express, MSN, Good Housekeeping and Prima. A very happy client!
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Hamish was invited by the Society of Incentive Travel Excellence to speak to the Jamaican Tourist Board and took the opportunity to present trends from Travel Intelligence's Portrait of European Meetings and Convention Travel™. Due to luggage restrictions, golf clubs were unfortunately not permitted to be taken!
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Bee Allmen, Junior Account Executive at Grifco, has secured her first piece of national coverage on The Times online: an inclusion for The Grove in Best Tennis Hotels in the UK. Well done Bee – here's to many more national coverage hits!
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Emma Welby and Olivia's Pascoe's fantastic team secured a total of 41 press meetings across a two-week period for two amazing clients. A day of breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea events at Annabel’s saw 23 media celebrate the launch of Le Grand Mazarin. Then three days of back-to-back meetings for Wilderness Safaris included 18 media meetings. Journalists included travel editors from Condé Nast Traveller, National Geographic, Harper's Bazaar, House & Garden, Country & Town House, Elle Decoration, Departures, Telegraph Luxury and many more. Only one journalist cancelled throughout the whole two weeks. Surely a record!
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Kiera Greenwood was instrumental in constructing and activating an international media and stakeholder on-island panel discussion for Discover Puerto Rico. Kiera led the charge on logistics moving 20 international media through five different markets whilst coordinating pre- and post-itineraries, allowing exploration of the island. For the panel discussions, we brought the CEO of Suitcase magazine and publications and leaders from AFAR, Brand USA, National Geographic, CLIA and The Travel Foundation and we managed multiple local stakeholders and domestic media. The event was well-attended with a mix of 45 international and domestic media, as well as over 30 local stakeholders.
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Jerilee Pinto organised a destination showcase event for the associations sector in Geneva. Guests were association executives with the potential to bring large international events to Hills Balfour client destinations. Her detailed and targeted approach not only ensured that the event exceeded client KPIs by 20% but also provided the groundwork that will support the entire team when conducting sales activity. It will benefit all clients in the portfolio.
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Emma Morgan and Anna Hobbs hosted a trip in partnership with Virgin Atlantic to San Francisco in June. They were accompanied by journalists, RuPaul's Drag Race stars Kitty Scott-Claus and Vanity Milan and the winner of San Francisco Travel's competition to find the UK's next undiscovered drag performer! From a catamaran boat trip to performances at Oasis, the whirlwind trip was a huge success.
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Sarah Sheehan, Samantha Cuthbert and Maddie Rees hosted a very successful media lunch for South African Tourism at Vivat Bacchus in London. Guests included writers from some of the UK’s leading publications, including The Times, The Telegraph, Prima, National Geographic Traveller, BBC Good Food and TTG.
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Frequent Flyer
All things office + Community Happenings
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UK MMGY Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Update:
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Tuesday 6th September at 3pm – and don't forget to send your ideas for Black History Month to Julia Edwards.
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Fasten Your Seatbelts
Anniversaries + Milestones
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Happy Anniversary!
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Ava Mehta – 7 years, Libby Marsh – 5 years, Kiera Greenwood – 3 years, Lily Morrison – 3 years, Jonathan Sloan – 2 years, Samantha Martini – 1 year
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Congratulations to Anna Hobbs who legally got married on 30th June! Wishing her all the best with the rest of her wedding celebrations in France.
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Travel Itinerary
Access to all business opportunities
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You have all been invited to three training sessions:
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Session 1: Understanding Emotional Intelligence
Session 2: Emotionally Intelligent Feedback
Session 3: E. I. Action Learning
These training sessions are mandatory. Please let Alessandro know if you cannot attend.
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The Exit Row
Interesting + Fun + TWICE THE LEG ROOM
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Anchors away! Olivia Campus recently hosted a multimarket group influencer trip on board a luxury yacht on behalf of the Croatia National Tourist Board. Sailing from Split to Dubrovnik via several islands, highlights included visiting Hvar's blue cave and swimming in crystal clear lakes at Mljet National Park. Influencers from five markets attended with a following of over 930,000.
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The UK office donated eight crates of food to the Waterloo Food Bank for Go Do Good in June. This fantastic charity helps support thousands of people nationwide every year and is especially vital during the cost of living crisis. You were all so generous with your donations and it even got the attention of our clients, with feedback including:
Bernie Carter, SVP & MD – Oceania Cruises: "Great that you are doing something to help – if everyone gave back just a little the world would be a far better place."
Natalie Draper, Iglu Cruise: "That's a fantastic initiative, good luck."
We plan to arrange more Go Do Good initiatives soon. If you have a specific cause you would like to support, please let Flora Beaumont know.
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The UK Sports Day and evening at Flight Club was a fantastic day! A huge thank you to the Social Society (many pictured) who spent hours organising such a brilliant day whilst juggling the demands of their day jobs: Ava Mehta, Camilla Horner, Charlotte Hughes-Broughton, Ellen Christophers, Emma Welby, Flora Beaumont, Hannah Phoenix, Intisar Jama, Jasmine Cowler, Jim Luckett, Kat Wanoa, Liz Jolliffe, Nuno Matos, Samantha Martini and Sola Thomson.
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