financial excesses

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Interview:
Hans-Ingo Biehl:
,,Ganzheitlichen Blick auf die Kosten"
Interview: Hans-Ingo Biehl: "Comprehensive
cost consideration"
Page 22
Marokko: Zwischen Orient und Okzident
Morocco: Between Orient and Occident
Page 84
Titelbild
Der totale Zusammenbruch der
Weltwirtschaft war nur dadurch zu
verhindern, dass die Schulden
praktisch aller großen Geldhäuser
verstaatlicht wurden. Die Kosten
für die Rettungsaktion liegen inzwischen
allein für die Stützung
der westlichen Kreditinstitute bei
astronomischen 9.000 Milliarden
Dollar.
Cover Photo
An all-out global economic collapse was prevented only by
nationalising the debts run up by practically all big
financial institutions.
The costs of the bailout
have mounted
meanwhile to an as-
tronomical USD
9,000 billion – and
that is only to shore
up western banks.
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SPOTLIGHT
Global MICE market: The price of financial excesses.......... 20
Business travel: “Comprehensive cost consideration”...... 23
GERMANY
Düsseldorf: Urbane, easy-going and cool...........................38
GCB seminars:
Social responsibility and sustainability...............................50
m:con:
Double digit growth despite economic crisis.....................54
Hannover Congress Centrum:
Consolidation phase completed........................................ 56
EUROPE
Tenerife: The island of the fire coyote................................ 69
Hofburg Vienna: Performance up on previous year............ 76
Edinburgh Convention Bureau:
Growth despite tough economic climate.......................... 78
INTERNATIONAL
Morocco: Between Orient and Occident ...........................88
IT&CM China: China’s economic metropolis.......................94
Qatar National Convention Centre:
“We are on track”............................................................ 98
AIME 2010: Positive impression, but no stats................... 102
AIME Talk: “We love trying out new ideas”..................... 106
Travel management priorities:
Cost savings remain on agenda....................................... 110
AIPC: Getting sustainability into perspective....................113
South Africa: In the international focus.............................116
TRAINING&TECHNOLOGY
Online congresses: Just a mouseclick away.....................128
SECTIONS
CONTENT Issue 2/2010
Editorial.............................................................................. 3
Hotel News.................................................................12+61
People.............................................................................. 81
Carrier News................................................................... 121
Mixed Pickles................................................................. 132
Meeting Services............................................................133
Imprint............................................................................139
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