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Agathe Fabron, Vice President Business Travel and Meetings & Events speaking at the ACTE Conference: This partnership allows us to be connected to market news and trends with our biggest corporate customers and travel agencies. The events are opportunities to create awareness for our clients on new distribution trends and group strategy, allowing them to follow us and understand market changes and our position. It also enhances our visibility among the world s biggest congress companies.

Xavier Guillemin, Executive Director Association, Sport & Entertainment Worldwide: As a member of ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association), AccorHotels has access to a worldwide database with 20,000 international associations organising 220,000 meetings. We can also attend different events where suppliers interested in the Association market can share their expertise.

AccorHotels - a global partner of PCMA (Professional Convention Management Association): 50,000 individual members representing 7,000 organisations. PCMA s strength lies in its educational content for meeting planners.

Jean-Claude Balanos, Vice President Leisure Sales, member of the ETOA Advisory Board: Being part of the ETOA Advisory Board is an amazing opportunity to participate actively and influence tourism orientation and decisions in Europe. Being the country representative for France at the association allows me to inspire tourism players to generate business in this country and ensure visibility for our hotels around the world.

After being one of the key leader in the meeting industry in US through education, PCMA wants to extend in Europe. At the Fairmont Monaco, PCMA gathered the European key opinion leaders of the meeting industry including AccorHotels Global Sales team, the only hotelier player invited.

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