Worldspan Group

Celebrating 30 Years of Working with Honda

We are delighted to announce that we have just celebrated our 30th anniversary of working with long-standing client Honda.

We operated our first event for Honda in 1980, organising a dealer incentive trip to Thailand. Our events team have estimated that over the last three decades we have delivered in excess of 150 events for Honda on virtually every continent.

Amongst others, our work has included:

The largest event: Honda’s 50th Anniversary celebrations at the Isle of Man TT Races, which hosted 8,000 visitors from around the world.

The longest event: The launch of the Accord to the European Press in Baden-Baden which ran consecutively for three months.

In recognition of this milestone and to celebrate the 30 year partnership between the two companies, we hosted senior management from all divisions of Honda UK and Honda Motor Europe at a reception.

We have always sought to build long term partnerships with our clients and as we enter our fourth successive decade of business, it was such an accolade to celebrate our partnership with Honda. In the words of our Chairman - Len Wilcock: “To work for thirty years with a brand such as Honda is a true privilege and honour”.

In the words of our client “The relationship that Honda has had with Worldspan has been nothing short of outstanding. You understood the Honda philosophy and above all, what your business has created for our staff, dealers and customers are memories and for that we are extremely grateful”.

Thank you Honda!

Cancer Research Appeal

Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in the UK and almost 46,000 new cases are diagnosed every year. Sadly more and more people are being affected from the consequences of the disease either directly, or indirectly, through people they know and love.

The good news is that the number of women dying from breast cancer has fallen to less than 12,000 for the first time in almost 40 years.

Thanks to improved detection and better treatments, more people are beating breast cancer than ever before and now 8 out of 10 breast cancer patients survive beyond five years.

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Alcatel-Lucent – Green Initiative

Henry and I have recently completed the Alcatel-Lucent GreenTouch event at Altitude London, which is on the 29^th floor of Millbank Tower in London.

The set went up on Sunday (the day before the event) and the crew arrived to test the satellite connection for the live webcast, all looked great, apart from the view.  You’d expect stunning views from the 29^th floor, but unfortunately, a thick fog settled over London and all you could see were a few lights on the Millennium Wheel.

On Monday, the event day, the sky was clear allowing stunning views over Westminster.  What a busy day!  The number of journalists increased from 120 to 180 in the last few hours before the event.  Badges were made, USB sticks loaded and press releases printed - all in the final hours and minutes before the press launch.

The guests arrived, had time for a quick coffee and some 1-2-1 interviews before the live webcast began.  A new initiative aiming to reduce energy consumption in worldwide ICT networks by a factor of 1000.  Over 400 logged in and saw the live webcast, whilst almost 150 were finally present for the launch.  For more information on GreenTouch visit www.greentouch.org/