From CMW: This year’s Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB)-organised Malaysia Business Events Week (MBEW) 2023 drew 400 business events practitioners and provided them with insights and knowledge through panel discussions, workshops, training sessions, forums as well as CSR initiatives. Held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre…
Destination Marketing Organization University (DMOU) Podcast: When the moderator went to the audience this year at the Annual Convention of Destinations International asking, “what keeps you up at night,” Lviv’s Olena Pavlyuk held out her mobile device and replayed a recording of an air raid siren. In this fascinating episode of DMOU, Olena shares how…
From GCB: Sustainability is increasingly becoming the focus of event planners and participants alike. The value of personal encounters at business events remains unbroken – and more and more people are extending business trips for private purposes. These are some of the key findings of the new study “Portrait of European Meeting & Convention Travel”…
A slew of new bills signed into law by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has draped the Sunshine State in controversy, spurring protests, lawsuits and travel advisories warning the state is ‘openly hostile’ toward people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ community members. From CNN…
Matty Rubenstein has been advising senior association executives for 15 years Over the last 15 years I’ve had the most fantastic opportunity to work with senior executives across almost every division of IEEE, the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, in New Jersey. It’s one of the biggest associations in the US, generating revenue of almost $½…
By Maraika Black, Advocacy, Policy, and Public Health Coordinator, European Association for the Study of the Liver: Health conferences have traditionally focused on actors directly involved in the field – specialists, medical experts, general practitioners, researchers, nurses, and allied health professionals. It has long since been a source of prestige and professional mobilisation for delegates…
From Meet in Wales: Meet in Wales has partnered with SFA Connect to further expand its ambassador programme and increase knowledge and learning within Wales across the association conference sector. SFA will support the Ambassador Wales Conference Programme which mirror’s the destination’s wider strategy of working with specific sectors that underline the country’s industrial strengths….
By Jeff Heilman, from Meetings Today: Destination Canada’s Business Events team has a remarkable record of creating innovative initiatives, backed by in-depth market research and analysis, to promote, amplify and advance the Canadian meetings industry. This evolving program is geared principally to Canada’s priority economic sectors. These comprise life sciences, agribusiness, advanced manufacturing, finance and…
At the Singapore MICE Forum, new guidelines were announced for the country’s business events industry to manage carbon emissions. It’s another step in the sector’s sustainability roadmap, complementing the previous initiative of waste management. There’s an emissions reporting template for reference, as well as sustainability-related courses for people looking to upskill and reskill. From CNA…
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