Trade associations have a vital role to play in helping the industry and wider world to recover as pandemic lockdowns end. So there is real and pressing work now for them to do. The association champion Jennifer Jenkins is PCO Lead and Director at the British agency Worldspan. From Association Meetings International…
“The new normal” is an irritating phrase that has entered common parlance since lockdown measures began to contain further spread of COVID-19. While the transition to virtual events is a “new normal” we can take seriously, not much else of the “new normal” is “normal” at all. From editor’s blog at Association Meetings International…
Adapt, survive, thrive. Not a choice, but a necessity in the future. So says Smyle Founder and Group Executive Director Rick Stainton, here offering a long-range view on assessing the current economic conditions, lower delegate appetite for business travel, and the role in the mix of virtual and hybrid. From Meetings & Incentive Travel…
As the COVID-19 crisis has persisted, so has came the slow realisation that its impact will linger a very long time indeed. What does this mean for the exhibition sector in the future? Reed Exhibition’s former Chairman and CEO Mike Rusbridge, and former Commercial Director Nick Forster, offer thoughts. From UFI…
The COVID-19 crisis is a great time for associations to rethink the way they function and deliver value. In this third article in a series, Iceberg partner Boardroom’s Advisory Board, a mix of key association voices, talks about “standing stronger together” and offers ideas on partnership and collaboration. From Boardroom…
Let’s get together and revisit ICCA’s past predictions on the meetings industry and compare top tips on crisis management from 2003 and 2020. Join us on 14 May 2020 at 11:30-12:30 (GST).
If there’s one positive to come out of COVID-19, it’s the focus on our people – and the importance of staying in touch. When there’s still a lot of uncertainty, we are still focused on uniting everyone in the ICCA community to exchange information and stand together while far apart. The ICCA Asia Pacific Chapter Committee is…
Over the past weeks, ICCA has been shifting from live meetings to online meetings, facilitating what we do best: sharing knowledge, business and developing global relationships. The next ICCA African Chapter meeting will be a virtual meeting via Zoom scheduled for Wednesday, 20 May 2020 at 10:00 AM CET.
This Virtual Chapter Meeting will be an opportunity for us to come together and hear updates regarding the major concerns and measures impacting our industry during the COVID19 crisis from each of our three countries in the NA Chapter. We will also take time to hear from multiple Chapter members regarding new-found solutions or practices which…
Does your association have best-practice governance such as a small board with healthy transition of directors, delegate to the CEO and no micromanagement? If not, use the time provided by the pandemic to modernise your constitution and governance. Webinar open only to associations and ICCA Meetings Management members.
As the world’s population grows, the percentage of people living in cities is rising steadily. The future success of humanity is therefore more and more tied to, and even defined by, the future success of the city as a model. In that, of course, business events have a critical role to play. Professor Greg Clark has…
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