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26 February 2018

EVVC Academy, Frankfurt, Germany

Clear answers to IT security and practical solutions to comply with the new data protection law will be provided in the compact seminar without in-depth legal and difficult-to-understand IT terminology. As a leader, be familiar with the new IT legal situation in digital event management. With this interactive management seminar, you can find out how to make your…

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UFI World Map of Exhibition Venues (2017 Edition)

UFI’s World Map of Exhibition Venues (November 2017) reveals that the total venue space available for exhibitions has grown 7.4 percent in the last six years, from 32,500,000 to 34,900,000 square metres (gross indoor exhibition space, venues over 5,000 square metres). The fastest growth is in venues offering more than 100,000 square metres, a rise of…

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Global Exhibition Venue Space Still Growing

UFI’s World Map of Exhibition Venues 2017 reveals that the total venue space available for exhibitions has grown 7.4 percent in the last six years. The fastest growth is in venues offering more than 100,000 square metres. Asia now boasts more space than North America, and Europe has the most globally. From CIM News Magazine…

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UFI and Explori Global Exhibitor Insights (November 2017 Edition)

This report gives an overview of the experience and intentions of exhibitors at trade shows across the world. It aims to give event organisers a deeper understanding of the patterns and trends that drive positive and negative exhibitor experiences and the objectives and behaviours that underlie them. This report has been created in two stages….

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Exhibition Security and the New Threat Reality

How has trade-show security changed over recent years, and what now goes operationally into keeping exhibitors and visitors at an event safe under the current threat landscape? One of the top five global car exhibitions, the LA Auto Show, lifts the bonnet and reveals just how safety is currently engineered. From PCMA…

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PCMA Launches Industry Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund

With Texas also asking Austin to accept 7,000 Harvey evacuees – 2,500 to be housed at the Austin Convention Center – Iceberg partner PCMA (the Professional Convention Management Association) and the PCMA Education Foundation have launched a relief fund to help members in the meetings industry impacted by the storm. Photo: Texas National Guard. From PCMA…

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KBH Convention Center Dallas Offers Further Emergency Shelter

Following a State of Texas request to the city of Dallas, the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center has been opened up as a further emergency “mega-shelter”. It is housing up to 5,000 Guly Coast residents displaced by Hurricane Harvey. The venue says the operation will not affect current events and shows. From Meetings & Conventions…

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GRB Houston Becomes Emergency Shelter

With the devastation of Hurricane Harvey ongoing, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner opened up the George R. Brown Convention Center as an emergency shelter for people flooded out of their homes. The Red Cross prepared to accommodate 5,000 at the venue, but by Tuesday afternoon more than 10,000 had arrived. From Meetings & Conventions…

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Shaun Hinds on Manchester Central’s Next Ten Years

Manchester Central is now celebrating ten years since becoming an exhibition and conference centre. The venue’s new CEO Shaun Hinds has clear views on its next decade, in terms of industry disruption, the evolution of meetings and events, extending the conference experience beyond the event itself, and in the use of technology. From the editor’s blog at Meetpie.com…

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The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 13th Edition (July 2017)

The latest UFI / Business Strategies Group report on the trade fair industry in Asia has now been published complete with updated statistical information from 2016. Leaflet here… The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 13th Edition (July 2017) – Leaflet Order form here… The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 13th Edition (July 2017) –…

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UFI Insights on Logistics

UFI has consolidated the results of three of its recent focus meetings and combined this with the presentations of entrants in UFI award competitions to create a series of UFI Insight documents. The aim of these reports is to provide UFI members with “insight” into challenges currently facing the exhibition industry in the areas of…

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The Delphi Study (2011)

The International Exhibition Industry and its Future. Long Term Effects of the Global Economic Crisis on the Exhibition Industry. The Delphi Study (2011) – Executive Summary

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UFI Survey on Matchmaking (2012)

Matching the interests of visitors and exhibitors is a core task of each exhibition manager. Often the success of a show is measured by the extent to which the “right” persons could meet. The UFI Marketing Committee took this general principle into account and investigated the use of matchmaking tools and services within the exhibition…

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The World Map of Exhibitions Venues 2011 (2012)

As a part of its strategy, UFI’s objective is to provide reliable data on the exhibition market to its members and to all those interested in exhibitions. This data covers 3 elements: the exhibition venues, the exhibitions held in those venues and the companies who organize those events. The World Map of Exhibitions Venues 2011…

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The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 12th Edition (2016)

The 2016 UFI Report researched and compiled by Business Strategies Group. First comprehensive study of Asia’s trade fair industry. Leaflet here… The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 12th Edition (2016) – Leaflet Order form here… The Trade Fair Industry in Asia – 12th Edition (2016) – Order Form

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UFI and Explori Global Visitor Insights (November 2016 Edition)

The purpose of this report is to provide organisers with insight into the perceptions of tradeshow visitors across all major exhibition markets. Insight of this kind is essential to help organisers properly understand their visitors – their behaviours, their level of loyalty and advocacy, their needs – and, the extent to which these needs are…

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