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From ExpoPlatform: Martha Donato, regional director for North America, pointed to the upcoming “volatile” US election as an example before claiming “the show will go on”. She spoke to ExpoPlatform after taking on the position for the recently established chapter in the leading association for the exhibition industry. Martha, who is also president of MAD…
Dear colleagues, dear friends, I am writing these lines as I am leaving the beautiful city of Amsterdam, where I spent a few days both with the UFI leadership for our first major meetings of the year and of course for this year’s Global CEO Summit. For me, this week confirmed two beliefs that I…
From Trade Show Executive: The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) has ambitious plans to grow in the coming years, with PCMA and Corporate Event Marketing Association (CEMA) President and CEO Sherrif Karamat, CAE, taking the organization to great heights — both in membership and new initiatives. Karamat highlighted the association’s evolution and outlined next steps…
The UNBROKEN Emergency Summit held in October 2023 attracted some leading minds from the association, charity, and consulting sectors as Lviv shared insights to the medical needs of the country. A visit to the UNBROKEN Rehabilitation Centre included to the facility’s psychological rehabilitation unit where the extent of the trauma was shared by its leading…
Four years to the day have passed since the beginning of the boom and bust of virtual event technologies and the beginning of the bust and boom of in-person events. Remember when investors went crazy for event tech stocks and the trade media held countless webinars using virtual technologies confirming that business and professional events…
By Senthil Gopinath: At ICCA we talk continuously about Sustainability, DEI, Legacy, and Innovation. These pillars inspire our interaction with our members and form the basis of much of the discussions we have with our associations. They provide the bedrock of work undertaken with external agencies and cross-organisational bodies, including The GDS-Movement, the Net Zero…
By Vicky Koffa, from Boardroom: Collaboration, new connections and knowledge exchange and intake sounds like a great way to kick off the year. Especially if all this take place in a welcoming city that has a lot to offer to associations and the meetings industry. The 2024 BestCities Global Forum was held between 18 and…
From Travel Writers Radio: Loren Christie is Managing Director of the BestCities Global Alliance which started 25 years ago with a conversation over drinks by city leaders from Melbourne Houston and Vancouver. Now there are 13 major international cities in this group that specialises in hosting some of the largest business events and leaving a…
By Matty Rubenstein, from Associations Evolve Magazine: A Tale of Two Industries Two deeply interwoven industries, destinations and associations have both seen unprecedented change to their business imperatives in the last decade. Yesterday’s cities would compete for conferences as tourist destinations, a boon for hotels, convention centers and entertainment. Today municipalities see mass-tourism as the…
By Chantal Sturk-Nadeau: I just returned from PCMA’s record breaking attendance Convening Leaders conference and board meetings in San Diego. It was a bittersweet time for me as I just completed my two-year term as a Director on PCMA’s Board of Directors and it was simply the best board I have ever been part of….
From TRAVELPULSE: Both to bolster their local economies and as a means of combatting overtourism, an increasing number of global destinations are charging tourists taxes or fees just for visiting. You’ll frequently find them tacked onto your hotel bill, but sometimes they’re collected immediately upon arrival. Now that the pandemic is over and tourism numbers…
Ever since we introduced our annual Talking Point, which acts as a single, cohesive theme for our two market-leading trade shows, we’ve gleaned huge satisfaction from exploring and planning the impact we could make with it each year. Previous Talking Points included Legacy, Imagination, Nature and Human Nature. This year, having lived through so much…
From Singapore Tourism Board: What can generative AI do for the MICE industry? In this episode, we’ll dive into how event planners can use generative AI to design an event, boost ticket sales, and increase participant satisfaction. We’ll be speaking with Veemal Gungadin, CEO of events technology platform Gevme, about new ways MICE can leverage…
From hospitalitynet, by Vivek Neb: Business travel is back. Data from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) projects that international business travel spending will reach $1.5 trillion in 2024, surpassing peaks of $1.4 trillion in 2019. By 2027, GBTA predicts that spending will have reached almost $1.8 trillion, a 25% increase from pre-pandemic levels. Business…
Rory Archibald, founder of New Intent, reveals why boycotts are sometimes the only way to remain true to your DEI values: Values are something that consciously or unconsciously direct all our lives. They influence our decisions, where we shop, who we travel with, who we are friends with, and who we work for. The corporate…
From Exhibition World: Paul Colston gets new UFI president and CEO of dmg events Geoff Dickinson’s views on the state of the industry and the association’s strategy going into 2024… How do you assess the recent UFI Congress in Las Vegas, its highlights and the key questions and challenges that arose from the sessions and…
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