Worldspan Group

Exhibitions Galore

Our Exhibitions Team are now coming to the end of this year’s exhibitions calendar for i3 Group, which has taken them all over the UK to promote the i3 Group services and products.

During the past year, our Team have undertaken extensive exhibition research, to enable our clients to actively pinpoint the most appropriate exhibitions to reach their correct target audience. Our Team also designed the bespoke exhibition stands, organised the onsite stand build and managed the logistics of networking dinners held before, during, and after the exhibitions.

Transat Jacques Vabre

Worldspan has just delivered the hospitality programme for the final race in the BT Team Ellen sponsorship agreement, The Transat Jacques Vabre. This race has been in existence for 14 years and is based on one of the world’s most historic routes: Le Havre, France to Costa Rica. The UK participants won places on this event by participating in a competition which was run in a national newspaper. In addition, guests from France and Netherlands joined their hosts from BT, providing a group of 30 people in total.

Guests visited the race village in Le Havre and saw the Imoca 60 and Multihull vessels in the harbour, before boarding their privately chartered spectator boat, Seafin, to follow the yachts out to watch the race start at close quarters. Despite choppy seas, the start went well, with commentary from BT Team Ellen’s skipper, Nick Moloney. The two sailors aboard BT Open 60, Seb Josse and Jean Francois Cuzon, started off with an excellent lead and, in fact, remained in first place for the first few days of this famous race.

Unfortunately, BT Open 60 was damaged in 65-knot winds on Friday 13th November, which led to a rather dramatic helicopter rescue of the crew in high winds. The yacht remained at sea, taking on water, whilst a salvage operation was put in place. BT Open 60 was finally recovered on 16th November and towed in to harbour in the Azores on 18th November.

• For more information on BT Team Ellen visit http://www.teamellen.com

Worldspan uses island paradise for the third time

The paradise island of Kanuhura in the Maldives was largely taken over for a week of fun in the sun by Ricoh’s top dealers who achieved an elite incentive reward to this award-winning island.  The week was filled with unforgettable experiences which started with a seaplane journey over the breathtaking atolls that make up this island paradise.

Other memorable events included being joined by hundreds of dolphins during a cocktail party on a Dhoni (local boat), as the group watched the sun set over the clear blue waters; a cinema night under the stars, lying on oversized chairs, whilst enjoying a fish and chip supper, followed by ice cream and popcorn; a volleyball tournament with the highly competitive local Maldivians (and, yes, the locals won!); a beach party on an uninhabited desert island; snorkelling with dolphins and manta rays; spa treatments; water sports lessons and much, much more…