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> Stenotypist: the record of your events
Stenotypists regularly produce summaries and reports of conferences and congresses. An exacting work in both form and content according to Myriam Pareau, Director of the Bordeaux company CVS.Sténotypie.
“Stenotypists draft minutes and summary reports for congresses, summits, symposiums and meetings. It is a very intense and highly-meticulous profession that relies on teamwork between the stenotypist and writers-editors. It involves producing written documents based on our note-taking in double-quick time - on the day itself, live, or a little later on, slightly deferred. Our profession is officially called conference stenotypist, a name that guarantees quality and strict professionalism.
We cover a wide range of applications and exercise our profession in national, local and regional institutions, and internationally, courts and business, even universities and institutes of higher education, not forgetting the media. In a working situation, in a congress for example, we are generally located near the platform, near the press tables. We take full-length notes by typing into our machine called a stenotype; these notes are recorded in a file. The raw data are subsequently put into shape then corrected by a writer and finalised in a written document. This most frequently involves a summary report or minutes. It is therefore very functional work.”
“One of CVS.Sténotypie’s particular features is the development of a specific computing solution - a sort of mobile intranet - for working at a distance in real time. We can optimise our production and delivery deadlines by using this tool.
Stenotyping is a constantly-changing, fascinating business. Before founding my agency in Bordeaux I worked at the UN in particular and, more recently, at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
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> Sport and relaxation at the Relais de Margaux ****L
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18-hole golf course and balneotherapy centre in 2005. In the heart of the Médoc region, the Relais de Margaux extends the attractions of its exceptional location to seminars and incentive packages.
Golf is inciting more and more passion. The Relais de Margaux has got it right - in 2005 it is opening an 18- |
hole golf course covering a total of 45 hectares. It will be open to all enthusiasts, primarily hotel customers.
Another, very trendy, new feature: the construction of a balneotherapy centre.
Lastly, the Relais de Margaux is also increasing its accommodation potential by creating six rooms in addition to the 63 already existing, with a 115 m2 reception room to meet the many demands for seminars better.
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> A new look for the Bordeaux Sofitel
With its exceptional location at the lake’s edge, very close to the Congress Centre, the Bordeaux Sofitel is getting a new look. It will be fully renovated in 2005, as announced by its General Manager, Jean-Louis Goube.
“The Bordeaux Sofitel is investing 12 million euros in major renovation work in 2005. The work is scheduled in two phases. From January to June, work will concentrate firstly on the lobby, ground floor and the three storeys facing the Lake, a total of 120 rooms. The second phase in July 2005 will be to create an additional entrance for direct access to the Congress Centre and the Bordeaux Casino. Our interior designer is Didier Rey, who has already designed the Sofitel Miramar at Biarritz among other projects.”
Elegance and modernity
“Today’s hotel is moving towards an increasingly personalised service. Our customers already have Wi-Fi and other services will soon be on offer, like a fitness centre. Lastly, our restaurant has gone for creativity with our new chef, Frédéric Coiffe. »
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> Arcachon : new life at the Congress Centre
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The Arcachon Congress Centre is playing the revival card in 2004 with renovation work and the opening of an additional room. This will round out its already substantial - and refreshingly different - facilities.
The Arachon Congress Centre inaugurated the first phase of its major site redevelopment work in the summer with the renovation of the Salle des Ambassadeurs in the style |
of Napoleon III.
At the same time, a new 120 m2 seminar room, capable of seating 110 people, has just been fitted out on the second floor. Furniture, video projectors, electric screens, public address system: everything has been studied to provide a suitable setting.
The Arcachon Congress Centre is a unique, toe-in-the-water space. It can welcome forty to seven hundred people, between its 500-seat auditorium, its fourteen sub-committee rooms and its VIP reception room. The 450 m2 exhibition hall on the ground floor overlooks the Arcachon Basin. An unobstructed view of this seaside town that combines tradition and modernity.
> Fête de la Fleur at Agassac
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The traditional Fête de la Fleur celebrating the flowering of the vine, took place this year on June 12th at Château d'Agassac in the Haut-Médoc.
Organised every year by the Commanderie du Bontemps (a vinous brotherhood encompassing the Médoc, Graves, Barsac, |
and Sauternes regions), the 2004 Fête dela fleur, held on June
12 th, welcomed nearly a thousand guests.
Participants celebrated the flowering of the vine at Château d'Agassac, a cru bourgeois in Ludon, in the Haut-Médoc appellation. One of the highlights of this fete was the "floral illumination" of the château.
>Bordeaux and the Gironde department, a European destination of the future
The Bordeaux-Gironde destination received the "2004-2005 European Region of the Future" award for France from the Financial Times' Foreign Direct Investment magazine.
A number of the Bordeaux-Gironde region's features were essential in winning this award: good economic potential, a dynamic research and development sector, the cost of living, urban development projects, and the quality of life.
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> Equivox: your events in photos
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From Léognan in the Gironde, the Photos Equivox studio covers large and small events. Its photographers travel all over Europe.
The International Riding Federation commissioned Photos Equivox to produce a pictorial record of the European Pony Championships in Poland, an event organised at Jaskowo in July 2004, in which seventeen nations took part. |
For five days of reporting, a 4-person team photographed 145 competitors and special customers in real time, a total of 9,190 negatives.
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> The new Château Grand-Barrail website
The new website for Château Grand-Barrail at Saint Emilion - sober, elegant and in two languages - offers the possibility of reserving your stay on line. You simply fill the form on the site and choose from the luxury rooms, suites, duplex or junior suites.
The carefully-thought out presentation and selection of photographs give a good appreciation of the premises and the range of tourist attractions on offer. More information on www.grand-barrail.com
> Bordeaux Urban Community: Congress Pass
The Bordeaux Urban Community is offering congress delegates mobility on the urban transport network, in particular the brand new tramway, with its Congress Pass.
Explanations from Dominique Harriet, Director for Economic Development, Bordeaux Urban Community.
Congress Pass is a new transport ticket available to congress delegates.
“The idea of Congress Pass is to render access to congresses easier by guaranteeing total mobility of delegates on the entire public transport system in the Bordeaux Urban Community, in particular to get to know the Bordeaux Tram and the treasures of our metropolis.
We are working in cooperation with the Bordeaux Gironde Convention Bureau to offer this new transport ticket, particularly for major scientific and international events.”
Mobility and ease
“We inaugurated the Congress Pass this year in August during the 2004 Congress of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, a meeting with an international participation and for which 650 Congress Pass were issued.
This first experiment was highly successful. We are going to make 250 Congress Pass available to the organisers of the 19th Conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design being held from 24 to 26 November 2004. The Congress Pass could subsequently become one of the tools used by the community to promote the hosting of international conferences.”
> Welcome, Emeline Faure
We welcome Emeline Faure, who joined the Bordeaux Gironde Convention Bureau team on 6 October 2004. Emeline is following a sandwich course in Executive Secretary studies and is working three days a week with Hélène Fourquet and Christine Fournet.
> Maison de la France Managers in Bordeaux
On the initiative of the Bordeaux Tourist Office, the Gironde Departmental Tourism Committee and the Aquitaine Regional Tourism Committee, Maison de la France, the body responsible for promoting tourism in France overseas, recently invited its Managers to their annual meeting held in Bordeaux from 18 to 22 September 2004. A memorable, rewarding encounter, as witnessed by Jean-Daniel Terrassin, Director of the Bordeaux Tourist Office.
Maison de la France has 33 offices in 28 countries throughout the world. Founded in 1987 and placed under the authority of the Ministry of Tourism, it organises two annual meetings: one in June, in Paris, and the second in the provinces, in a major regional centre.
Bordeaux was chosen this year to welcome the Maison de la France Managers and organise their three partner days between 20 and 22 September 2004 in the reception rooms of the Hotel Sofitel. Nearly 150 people got together to study or suggest tourist projects in the markets, both close-by and further afield, such as Australia, China and South-East Asia in particular”, underlined Jean-Daniel Terrassin, Manager of the Bordeaux Tourist Office.
A rewarding encounter
On the initiative of the Bordeaux Tourist Office - a member of Maison de la France -, this Maison de la France Managers’ meeting also turned into a genuine encounter with the City of Bordeaux and its local treasures.
“Two days before the meeting we also invited personally the thirty Maison de la France Directors, to introduce them to the revitalised Bordeaux and its attributes and to share with them a fundamental component in its reputation, namely a visit to the Bordeaux vineyards. These two days of 18 and 19 September were an excellent introduction to the subject for the subsequent meetings. Exchanges took place in a very convivial and highly-rewarding atmosphere. »
The European Directors then continued their work at the Domaine Aplus at Lacanau in the heart of the pine forest, a few steps from the ocean.
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