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Are Business Travellers Contributing to Over Tourism?
From The Meeting Room: Residents are revolting! (And who can blame them?) But how can the business events industry stay out of the furore around overtourism engulfing cities and resorts across Europe and the world? Can it? Should it? In this latest episode of The Meeting Room, I chew the fat with my esteemed colleague…
Céline Dion Rescues Olympic Parade
From The Guardian, by Barney Ronay: Avant: le deluge. There was a moment, about an hour into Paris 2024’s Grand Opening Spectacular, as the rain soaked through shoes, trousers, socks and eventually skin, hair and bone; as yet more boats of waving people chugged down the Seine, like watching an endless series of weirdly nationalistic…
PCMA EMEA Prepares for Barcelona Double-Bill
PCMA’s flagship event for the EMEA region, Convening EMEA, rolls into Barcelona 30th September – 2nd October with Trust, Strategy, and Future the three key thematic pillars to the event. Jaimé Bennett, PCMA’s charismatic managing director for the 117 countries represented, explains how a Programme Architecture will allow for intentional and personalised experiences in order…
Building Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable Cities
From BestCities: In 2015, all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity across the planet. At its heart are 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) urging all countries to implement strategies to improve health and education, reduce inequality, spur economic growth, and tackle climate…
Future Ready: ISTH 2024 Congress, Bangkok
From AMI: In an age of social media, open-source publishing, rising travel costs and heightened concerns around sustainability, it is a brave association that chooses to increase the frequency of its flagship congress. But that’s the decision leaders of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) took in 2019, when they resolved to turn…
Ascential Agrees to Sell to Informa for £1.2bn
From Exhibition News: Informa has had a £1.2bn offer to buy the owner of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and Money20/20 accepted by Ascential’s shareholders. The offer of 568 pence in cash per share represents a 53% premium to Ascential’s closing share price of 371 pence on Monday, the day before the ‘unsolicited’…
When Making an Impact Moves from Words into Action
From IMEX: With a mission of bringing the global events community together to do business, learn and drive positive change, IMEX decided to make IMPACT our annual Talking Point for 2024/25. At the time we knew little about the hundreds of destinations and organizations in the global meetings and events industry already focused on creating…
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