American Tourister ’s Post

24 of the best places to visit in Lyon

•The worst fair I ever participated in was that day I stood outside in the rain for 7 hours. The roof barely covered me and my ceramic work with heavy rain and wind. •Actually, the worst one wasn't raining, it was just so boring, like a party with no guests and zero sales. •The London fair? Van ride for hours, then a marathon 7-hour ferry trip.  •At the Milan fair, we had few orders, but lots of fun.  •In Belgium, I juggled sales, my baby, and a husband with a stiff beck. •And the fair in Germany cost us a lot of money. •Oh, and there was that one where we stayed at a deserted camping spot in the worst rental ever! So why am I telling you all this? Because it takes a lot of groundwork and wild adventures to build your network. In the last 16 years, I've been to many B2B and private sector, small, big, nearby, far, simple, and fancy fairs to sell my handmade ceramic design collections. That's how I've built my network and professional contacts, working with many European shops and customers. I gained so much experience about myself, my products, retail, and how to run a creative business. I learned that it takes time, patience, and hard work and that you must begin from the ground up. This is the key to building a network that takes you forward. #experiencematters   #b2bnetworking #businessinsights #businessbuilding    #professionaljourney   #creativeentrepreneurship www.kesemydesign.com

Plaza Athenee Paris

Read my piece on the upcoming #Expo2025Osaka on D5 Mag’s website!

Making an Impact We arrived in Paris yesterday and did the #1 item our kids wanted to do first: go to the Eiffel Tower. Our guide told us that the tower was created as part of the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, a symbolic year as it was the 100th anniversary of the Revolution. France wanted to create the largest structure in the world as part of the Fair, which became the Eiffel Tour. 150 people worked with Gustave Eiffel over 2 years to create. The Eiffel Tower was the world’s largest structure for 41 years. When you think of Paris, the Eiffel Tower is still probably the most iconic landmark most people think of. Think about the economic impact of this structure and it’s ability to attract people from all over the world to visit Paris and France, including us. What lasting impact are you making in this world? #paris #france #eiffeltower #impact

What do you do if you work at the Institut für Windenergiesysteme (LUH) and you want to travel to a scientific wind energy conference such as Torque 2024? Right, you travel by train. So we do 😎. We is Felix Prigge, Basem Rajjoub and A.Wasay Khan. Looking forward to arrive in Florence tomorrow morning. However, there is room for improvements at railway companies to make the decision to travel by train easier, as literally NOTHING worked out as originally planned: - Local train from home to the office in the morning cancelled, took the next one 30 min later. Doable. - Train from Hanover to Munich cancelled, without a message, looked like train did not exist, even in the app. Bad communication. Took the next train more than 1 hour later. Not doable without planning tons of time for changing the train - which we fortunately did. However, less time for a fine Bavarian dinner… Not so nice, but still somewhat ok. - Nightjet from Munich to Florence: Couchette replaced by a seat wagon. Curious how comfortable and relaxing the journey is going to be. Will potentially report on that tomorrow. However, that is unreasonable. I may prepare with some Bavarian beer for the night. The lesson learned is - again, as last year: Plan enough time for changing trains and take the time of an international business travel by train as an adventure and an invaluable team building event, which it basically is. Anyways, please, Deutsche Bahn and ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG, improve your services. I fear this is not the way we can convince people to change from cars and planes to trains.

THE PARIS METRO 1/3: The race for Line 1 ⏳ The year 1900 was going to be a big deal in Paris. April would see the opening of the Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair), and in May, the summer Olympics would arrive. And something had to be done about the state of the city’s public transport before the world came to visit. At the end of the 19th century, horse-drawn carriages were still being used to carry goods and passengers, creating an anarchic and unpleasant street experience. But what? City bosses and the French government had spent the last 50 years debating the subject of urban transport.  A cable-car system, trains elevated above the city’s boulevards – ideas were proposed and rejected, while the population expanded and the traffic congestion – and the smell – grew worse and worse. Finally, the city accepted the proposal of a Breton engineer called Fulgence Bienvenüe to build an underground network of nine lines, funded by a private-public arrangement. Work didn’t get started until November 1898. The race was on. The first line, Porte Maillot–Vincennes (today’s Line 1), carrying passengers on an east-west axis across the city, opened only three months behind schedule, on 19 July 1900. Too late for the opening of the World’s Fair, but in time to carry spectators to the Bois de Vincennes to catch Olympic events. Their journey was slow – the travel time between each station was 10 minutes when the line first opened. But we can imagine that it was a lot faster – and more fragrant – than the horse-drawn anarchy above ground. #Paris #travel #storytelling

So many incredible options in Spain for your next incentive.

Netherlands

SNEAK PREVIEW 👀 As announced on our last event, our new event: CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE is coming closer & closer. On the 6&7th of july it's time for our 1st European event in the history of histories! Below a quick preview of how the event is going to look like! 😎 #europeanevent #croatia #july #championsofeurope #champions #eventsbyevents #businessopportunity