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Invitation: Ferry and Cruise Business seminar in Helsinki on “M/S Princess Anastasia” 25.4.2013
Day’s of St.Petersburg in Helsinki – A Roundtable discussion 25.4.2013Place: “Princess Anastasia” (St.Peter Line), West Harbour (Länsisatama)Time: 10.00 – 13.00Theme: Prospects and challenges of ferry and cruise shipping for Helsinki and Saint Petersburg cities.Topics of SpeakersEconomical, tourism and cultural meaning of ferry and cruise shipping in Helsinki and Saint-PetersburgSaint-Petersburg as a marine capital of Russia…
B2B Future Sales
What is the future for Sales and Marketing especially in B2B? I was attending as a panelist in Porvoo yesterday, 22.3.2013 where “Encounters” event took place. One of the last topic was about how to survive in tourism sales and marketing in the future. All four panelists were having some kind of personal experiences and…
ToolBox at ITB Fair 2013 in Berlin
Mr. Kari Halonen will be at the ITB Fair in Berlin from 6.3 until 7.3.2013. He is launching marketing events and campaigns of 2013 for target market areas as follows:- Arab Emirates – Dubai Travel Market in May 2013- Italy – Finland Workshop in Rome in April (11.4)- Benelux workshop in May (with YourAgent) in…
Finlandia Workshop in Rome 11.4.2013
Workshops: Finland workshop for travel trade (Rome /leisure, mice, 11.4.2013)One day event held in city centre area. Rome Workshop is B2B sales event, where you can meet new tour operators and agents. You are able to expand your customer network by meeting Incentive Houses, representatives of associations and clubs as well as potential incentive customers…
Skärgårdsmässan in Stockholm! Biggest Finnish tourism event in Sweden in 2013
“Skärgårdsmässan” in Stockholm Stockholm based three days event which is targeted for travel professionals and consumers. 75 000 visitors annually!Target groups Swedish families and Summer 2013.Time: May 24 – 26, 2013 Participation on “Skärgårdsmässan” with the stand and brochure deliveryEstimated participation fee for stands are from 6000 € + VAT 24 % (for area organization)Estimated participation fee…
Campus Encounter 13 in Porvoo 20.3 – 22.3.2013
Interesting tourism conference happening in Porvoo in March 2013. I am delighted I am able to attend there also as one panelist in B2B Forum on 22.2.2013Conference ProgrammeCampus Encounters 13- Programme20 March Coctails at Campus between 18.00-20.3021 March09.00 Registration and morning coffee – poster sessions09.30 Welcome speech by President Ritva Laakso-Manninen, HAAGA-HELIA UAS and Director Tuija Hirvikoski, Laurea…
New language added in ToolBox website: Chinese
We have been adding Chinese language because the company is having several tourism operations going on between China and Finland, Nordic countries and Baltic States.First of all we are organizing campaigns and Road Show in China in 2013.We are also interested in Technical Visit Programmes organized in Nordic countries. We are adding more information in…
New recruitment for Toolbox: Ms. Xuesong Zhang
ToolBox-travel marketing & consulting is having for this coming season new human resource when Ms. Xuesong Zhang, alias Jessie, comes to work at Helsinki office. She will start to work 7th of January, 2013. Her main tasks are to develop Special Interest and Technical Visit Programmes for Chinese market. She will assist also our marketing actions…
Marketing actions in Russia for 2013 now published in our webpages
Russia has been one success story for Finnish tourism industry. Year 2012 has been very promising about Russian bednights and daily visits. The main target market area is Greater St.Petersburg (Leningrad Oblast), but also Moscow and Western Ural area are promising.We decided to add two Roadshows for next year marketing actions. In Spring there is…
Workshops in 2013
There are already announced several workshops for next year! 24.1 – 27.1 Ljubljana Workshop and Tourism & Leisure Fair (Slovenia)7.2 – 9.2 Prague Workshop and Holiday World Fair (Czech Republic)28.2 – 2.3 Budpaest Workshop and Travel Utásaz (Hungary)9.4 Tallinn Workshop (Estonia)10.4 Riga Workshop (Latvia)22.4 Nordic Workshop Amsterdam (invitation also for Belgium tour operators) (the Netherlands)10.9 Nordic…