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Swine flu stalks the ACC conference

ICIS Houston managing editor Stephen Burns survived the ACC conference, and sends this tale and video ... The American Chemistry Council ( ACC ) has revealed that an attendee at its annual meeting in Colorado Springs earlier this month had contracted...

Published 23 Jun 2009 10:40 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, gossip, ACC, golf, swineflu, Broadmoor
"I'm on the plane" - calling and texting in the air

The massed switching on of mobile phones as the plane lands may soon be a thing of the past. Travellers on Vodafone and Orange mobiles will be able to use them on aircraft within weeks, according to this article today. O2 and T-Mobile are already using...

Published 18 Jun 2009 10:04 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, cell phones, airlines, mobiles
Gold bars with your German chemicals

The next time I pass through Frankfurt airport on the way to the German chemical heartland , I will be sure to stop off at the new Gold To Go vending machine which was unveiled yesterday. A German company has launched a new type of automat which dispenses...

Published 17 Jun 2009 19:54 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, business travel
Expat lifestyle - homesick in Riyadh

One of our expat friends working for a couple of months in Saudi Arabia phones on his Skype phone from his flat in Riyadh to say that he is homesick and finding that there is absolutely nothing to do there. He says that where he is living there are a...

Published 12 Jun 2009 18:13 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, Saudi Arabia, camels, shopping, shopping malls, Riyadh, expats
25 years of Virgin Atlantic

Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group is doing a guest editor stint today at ICIS' sister publication Flight, and he tells us that Virgin Atlantic's popular 25th anniversary ad is going to make a return to UK TV screens this week. The retrospective...

Published 8 Jun 2009 17:43 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: flight, Virgin, business travel, ICIS, airlines, planes, Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson
No ashtray, no flight

A story in today's Times amusingly titled " No smoke without ire ," about a flight from Heathrow delayed in take-off due to a missing ashtray, reminded me of my own infuriating " Diary of a Flight to Amsterdam ." I bet the "unspecified...

Published 20 May 2009 18:06 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, Heathrow, flights, airlines, British Airways
Packing our golf bags for Seaview

What everyone loves about the Northeast Chems Association ( NECA) Sports Outing is that it is usually three days out of the office playing golf in the sunshine on the glorious rolling greens of the luxury Seaview Marriott hotel at Absecon on the New Jersey...

Published 20 May 2009 18:00 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, gossip, Houston, corporate life, golf, New Jersey, NECA, spas, Marriott Seaview, tennis, NECA Sports Outing
Floggers: high spirits despite downturn and health scare

It may turn out that the timing of Floggers was fortunate, because although everyone was joking about swine flu, they were still hugging and (social) kissing with abandon, and no-one had yet started to think about avoiding mass gatherings . Particularly...

Published 1 May 2009 15:07 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, business travel, gossip, CBA, Floggers, Ann Widdecombe, Gurkhas, Grovenor House
Business travel - just when it couldn't get any worse

Just when it looked like a bad year for business travel couldn't get any worse, along comes swine flu, and even the most determined of travellers is going to think again. Chemical conference and exhibition organisers must be quaking in their shoes...

Published 28 Apr 2009 14:03 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, airlines, exhibitions, swine flu
Summer EPL set for Madrid

The next EPL ( European Petrochemical Luncheon ) is scheduled for 25 June 2009 at the Westin Palace Hotel in Madrid. The cocktail party will be sponsored by Tricon Energy . Registration will close on 19 June. The guest speaker will be the American comedian...

Published 16 Apr 2009 10:35 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, EPL, Tricon, European Petrochemical Luncheon, Ruby Wax, Madrid
Raffles Hotel For Sale

Raffles Hotel in Singapore is up for sale, the Blog reads in this morning's Times. The article claims that the Saudi prince owning Fairmont Raffles Hotels International is in need of funds after his fortune declined from $21bn to $13bn over the last...

Published 16 Apr 2009 10:33 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, Singapore, EPCA, APIC, Fairmont, Monte Carlo, NECA, Quebec, Raffles
Top 10 Most Dangerous Places to Work

The London-based risk consultancy, Control Risks , has devised a list of the Top 10 most dangerous places in the world to work , as measured by the number of times the company's registered clients requested each country's page on its Forecast...

Published 15 Apr 2009 13:38 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: mexico, India, business travel, corporate life, Pakistan, risks, danger
Scottish golf event hard to resist

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--The Blog hears that some guests being invited to a petchems industry golfing event to be held at the prestigious Scottish course of Gleneagles this summer are reluctantly having to decline the invitation due to new...

Published 30 Mar 2009 13:08 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, gossip, corporate life, golf, Scotland, Gleneagles, corporate hospitality
On-line conferencing - you can't beat the real thing

SAN ANTONIO (Chemicals Confidential)--When times are hard and travel budgets are cut, conferences struggle to get the delegates. So consultant Dewitts moved its pre-NPRA Houston conference online , and our own Peter Taffe switched his booking from "the...

Published 29 Mar 2009 18:16 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, Houston, NPRA, San Antonio, DeWitt, online conferences
The bars of San Antonio

The ICIS technical crew has been building all day Saturday - they are the advance guard moving into a city ahead of a petchem conference and turning an unpromising empty room into a wonderland of ICIS technology. They know the petchem cities of the world...

Published 29 Mar 2009 12:21 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: business travel, conferences, NPRA, San Antonio, Swig, Coyote Ugly, Maddogs, Bar Sirius, Riverwalk

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