PACIFIC WORLD AWARDED WITH SILVER EVENTOPLUS AWARD

PACIFIC WORLD AWARDED WITH SILVER EVENTOPLUS AWARD
Pacific World (www.pacificworld.com), leader in the management of Meetings, Incentives, Conferencing and Exhibitions (MICE) projects, was awarded the Silver Eventoplus Award recently in Madrid, Spain. Eventoplus Awards are the highest recognition in Spain, which focus on recognising creativity, execution, and ROI in events celebrated in Spain and Portugal.

Members of the judging panel included CEO’s and Marketing and Communication Managers of leading brands including Heineken, Hyundai, Cisco as well as MPI representatives and creative directors from various advertising agencies.

The event awarded was for Pacific World’s rebranding launch which took place at EIBTM in Barcelona last year. Pacific World received the award for the event: “Opening up perspectives, creating a new story”, as the most creative way to implement an element in an event (catering in this case).

Using enormous circular tables as their canvasses, the artist-chefs designed and prepared canapés, tapas and desserts and guests sampled the shape and content of the “art pieces” which was done to the rhythm of a world music DJ.

The event and also Eventoplus Silver Award, serve as a showcase of the capabilities that Pacific World strives to deliver for clients. This is based on a combination of innovation, creativity and operational excellence. For more information please visit: www.pacificworld.com.

For media enquiries please contact:
Pam Wils – Cut Communications
Email: Pamela.wils@cut-coms.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 208 334 4005
Mob: +44 (0) 7825567808

RUSSIA | Russian Train Adventures

RUSSIA | Russian Train Adventures – Discover Russia Overland (Moscow to Beijing by Train)

Largest international group on Trans-Siberian-Railway

Russia Overland Tours

Three weeks, twelve nations – the most exciting active tour of the summer
Largest Vodka Train Tour of SMS Frankfurt through Russia to Mongolia and China completed

Frankfurt – From June twelve to 30th almost 100 adventure and sports enthusiasts from twelve countries were on their way by train, by foot, bus and ferry – at the Vodka Train Tour 2010. This summer offer included among other things a boat party on the Moscow River, cross country running along the Eurasian border, a bath in icy Lake Baikal and a stay in exclusive Mongolian yurts. It was the largest organized cultural, sports and event tour of SMS Frankfurt.
Start for all participants, coming from Australia, Barbados, China, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, the USA and more countries, was Moscow – on 20th anniversary of Russia’s independence. With a boat party on the Moskva River the organizers rang a unique, challenging and inspiring journey for the international participants. At the first stage they took the Trans-Siberian railway via Kazan to Yekaterinburg and the “border of Eurasia”. Sightseeing and cross-country races were program at each station. Fun and sport mated the euphoric participants from all over the world, also at a picnic in the Eurasian border, when half of the group at the European, the other half on Asian terrain drank on each ones health.
Irkutsk was the next exciting stop on the Vodka Train Tour. From here the international travelers took a two-day break after the journey along the historic Trans-Sib route on Lake Baikal. Hardly any of the participants went swimming in seven degrees cold lake, which is known as a rejuvenating spa. A ferry brought the group to the island of Olkhon for another cross-country run and accommodation in traditional wooden huts and with folklore in the evening.
Back to Irkutsk they continued with the train to Mongolia which was a pure cultural experience: unspoiled nature, adventurous cinematic scenes in public trains, cross-country races in a remote monastery and shaman fire dance in the exclusive hotel Mongolia with rooms as Mongolian yurts.
„The journey was emotionally and physically was the best ever” wrote a participant from Australia to the organizer Jürgen Schreiter from SMS Frankfurt after her return „You helped make it a trip of a lifetime for me” said another participant and “the Vodka Train was an exciting, enjoyable and memorable holiday/adventure. It was everything and more than what we were expecting…”.
The final stage was Mongolia to China. The cosmopolitan group was not only in the Gobi desert, they also took fascinating pictures of the Hanging Monastery in Datong and the surrounding caves. The farewell, after a walk on the Great Wall, was not easy after three weeks. Some enthusiasts of the Vodka Train Tour 2010, already planned a revival meeting after their return home where they will surely talk a lot about this tour.
More about this famous Vodka Train Adventure on Twitter, Facebook or as a free download on iTunes.

More photos, also in printformat, or a trailer of this and other tours we will send you on request by SMS Frankfurt.

Background:
SMS Frankfurt organizes unusual tours for small groups and businesses with personal care by coaches and guides. Find out more about Adventure Trips, cultural events and incentives such as the Vodka Train tour with the Trans-Sib, trekking in the Gobi Desert, Heli-Skiing in Kamtchatka and Safari Rally events in Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East under http://www.der-event-manager.de or www.incentives-worldwide.com.

Company contact:
SMS Frankfurt Events Incentives Adventures, Jürgen Schreiter, Burgfriedenstrasse 17, 60489 Frankfurt, Germany, Phone +49 69 95 90 97 01
mail: j.schreiter et SMS-Frankfurt.de
Press contact:
Feyza Morgül – Opera Civil, Bäckergasse 24, 60594 Frankfurt, Germany, Phone: +49 69 61 99 55 45
mail: presse et opera-civil.de

Adventure Trailer:
http://www.sms-frankfurt.com/trailer/russlandreisen-adventure-tours.wmv

Discover Uzbekistan | Die Seidenstrasse entdecken

Uzbekistan Part of the Great Silk Road /10 days

Program:
Day 01. Tashkent (D)
Arrive to Tashkent early in the morning; meet in airport transfer to the hotel. Afternoon beginning guided tour Tashkent visits (old part) Hast Imam Square, Kaffal Sashi Mausoleum, Barak-Khan Madrassah where the world’s oldest the Uthman Qur’an is kept, Juma Mosque, Tillya Sheikh Mosque Kukeldash Madrassah and Chorsu bazaar. Dinner in local restaurant.

Day 02. Tashkent – Urgench – Khiva (B/D)
City tour Tashkent continues and visits (new part) Mustaqillik Square (Independence Square), Museum of Fine and Applied Arts, Theatre Square, Amir Temur Square, Monument to Courage, Bunyodkor Square (former Halklar Dustligi Square) with Abul Kasim Madrassah and Tashkent metro station. Late afternoon transfer to airport flight to Urgench (HY1057 dep at 18:00 arr at 19:40), on arrival transfer to Khiva (30 km), the fairy-tale like oriental town. Dinner and overnight at hotel.

Day 03 Khiva (B/D)
Full day guided tour Khiva visits Monument of Al Khorezmiy, Muhammad Amin Khan Madrasah & Kalta Minor, Palace Complex Kuhna Ark: (Korinishona, Winter & Summer Mosque and Ak-shikh-bobo), Muhammad Rakhimkhan Madrasah, Pakhlavan Mahmud Mausoleum, Shergazi Khan Madrasah, Minaret and Madrasah of Islam-Khodja, Djuma Mosque, Ota Darvaza “Father Gate”, Ak Mosque, Anushakhan bath-houses, Palvan Darvaza ‘’Warriors Gate’’, Alakulihan Madrasah, Qutlugh Murad Inaq Madrasah, Caravansary Tim Allah Kuli Khan with bazaar and Tash Khauli Complex. Dinner in “Toza Bog Palace’’ (summer residence of Mohammed Rakhim Khan II) with folk show.

Day 04 Khiva – Bukhara (B/D)
Drive between the Kara-Kum (black sands) and the Kyzyl-Kum (red sands) deserts to Bukhara, en route stop to see the Amudarya River, known to many western explorers as the Oxus. Arrive in Bukhara & check-in to the hotel. Dinner in Lyabi Hauz restaurant.

Day 05 Bukhara (B/D)
Full day guided tour Bukhara visits remaining of city wall and gate of Bukhara, Samonid’s Mausoleum, Chashma-Ayub Mausoleum, Kosh Madrasah Ensemble (Abdullakhan Madrasah & Modarikhan Madrasah), Bolo Khauz Mosque, Ark citadel & Zindan (ancient prison), Khodja Zaynuddin Complex, Poi Kalyan Complex: (Kalyan Minaret, Kalyan Mosque & Miri Arab Madrasah), Trading Dome: (Toki Zargaron, Тoki Telpak Furushon & Toki Sarrafon), Ulugbek Madrasah, Abdullazizkhan Madrasah, Khodja Gaukushan Ensemble, Magoki Attoron Mosque, Architectural ensemble Lyabi Hauz (Kukeldash Madrasah, Khanaka and Nodir Devan-Begi Madrasah) and Synagogue. This evening you attend a traditional Bukhara cultural folk show.

Day 06 Bukhara (B/D)
Today visits Mausoleum of Bahouddin Naqshband, Summer Palace of last Emirs Sitorai Mokhi Khosa and Chor Bakr necropolis. Afternoon is free. Dinner in local house.

Day 07 Bukhara – Shakhrisabz – Samarkand (B/D)
After breakfast drive to Samarkand, often called the “Rome of the Orient”, en route visit Shakhrisabz. During of the tour you will visits remnants of Ak-Sarai Palace, Bazaar of Shakhrisabz, Kok-Gumbas mosque, Khazret-Imam mosque (Dorut Tilyavat ensemble, XIV century) and Gumbazi-Seidan mausoleum (Dorus-Siadat ensemble, XIV century). Arrival to Samarkand, check-in to the hotel. Dinner in local restaurant.

Day 08 Samarkand (B/D)
Full day guided tour Samarkand visits Ensemble of Registan: (Ulugbek, Sher Dor and Tillya Kari Madrasah’s), Gur-Emir Mausoleum (graves of Tamerlane and his descendants), Rukhobod Mausoleum, Aksaray Mausoleum, Bibi-Khonym Mosque with Siab bazaar, Shakh-i-Zinda Ensemble, Khazrat-Khizr Mosque, Aancient settlement Afrosiab with Museum, Mausoleum of Khodja Doniyor (Prophet Daniel) and observatory and memorial museum of Ulugbek. Dinner in local house.

Day 09 Samarkand – Tashkent (B/D)
Drive to Tashkent, en route visit Al-Imam Bukhary complex. Arrive in Tashkent and check-in to hotel. Rest of the day is free. Evening ballet performance (subject to availability) at Alisher Navoi Opera & Ballet Theatre built by Japanese prisoners in 1947. Beyond the marble lobby are 6 foyers dedicated to Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Termez, Khiva & Ferghana all thickly dressed in stucco carving, theme motives & murals from Navoi’s poetry. Farewell dinner in local restaurant.

Day 10 Tashkent (B)
Transfer to the airport and back flight to home.

ONLY 1.200 Euro (excluding flight)
Price valid until 31 March 2013

Booking here: http://www.Incentives-Wordwide.com