Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

IBTM World 2021 is taking place from 30 November to 2 December at Fira Barcelona. We’re very much looking forward to being on the show floor in Barcelona feeling the buzz of business meetings and networking taking place again.”.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. As a producer of events, continuing our work against Action Area 2 will be our focus — to redesign events to be sustainable and waste free.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Meet with Momentum Panel State at Meet with Momentum Bob Pfeffer, senior director at Marriott CRN, says, “We know that gaining knowledge is important. Meet with Momentum Panel State at Meet with Momentum Bob Pfeffer, senior director at Marriott CRN, says, “We know that gaining knowledge is important.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 20, 2021

The 51st annual edition of Earth Day is Thursday, April 22—an opportune moment for planners and suppliers alike to once again prioritize their efforts to build eco-friendly in-person events. But as people start to travel again for business, the issue of event sustainability should be top of mind for planners.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 5, 2021

[My June, 2021 guest post for BlueJeans by Verizon on event ROI.]. What is event ROI? Return On Investment (ROI) is such a familiar business concept that it’s easy to gloss over the complexities of defining it in the context of events. So let’s define event ROI in a little more detail.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 17, 2022

For many event professionals, the journey to become a more sustainable experience can happen over several event editions. For others, the race is on to become sustainable and match industry audience expectations today. It was all in the attention to sustainable detail.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

By Vanessa Lovatt, Chief Evangelist at Glisser , the virtual and hybrid event platform that makes every event count. . This hope is greatly needed in our hard-hit event sector, but how hopeful can we really be right now? The vaccination priority order simply does not support the quick return of in-person events.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index) is a world-leading sustainability benchmarking and performance improvement programme for destinations and their visitor economies. The judges felt that Belfast’s Changing the Menu. Changing the Menu.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

EVENTIT, Scotland’s only trade show for business events, meetings, incentives and hospitality, has announced the efforts it has gone to in order to meet its sustainability goals. EVENTIT has partnerships with businesses who have sustainability right at their very core.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022. Hybrid Is Down.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, executive director for Business Events at Destination Canada, reported that the country will be hosting the largest contingent ever this year. Bauer called the reunion for the business events industry particularly special since IMEX America is celebrating its 10th staging and a new home at Mandalay Bay.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The opening day of IMEX America 2021 at Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas was humming with people just happy to be back together. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2022

Green Tourism and the Meetings Industry Association (mia) have secured an exclusive five-year partnership to drive standards for sustainable business meetings and events. The partnership will help mia members secure Green Tourism’s accreditation that has a strict three-pillar sustainability criteria.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 14, 2020

American Express’s 10th annual Global Meetings and Events Forecast offers insights into what the industry can expect in 2021. When will live events ramp up again? Probably in late 2021. Most respondents reported that they expect to hold their next in-person event in the second half of 2021.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Net-Zero Carbon Events has published seven new best-practice documents for organizations working to reduce the environmental impact of their meetings and events. After almost two and a half years of work, Net-Zero Carbon Events has arrived at a major milestone.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 9, 2021

Sustainability should now be top of the agenda when planning events and experiences. In this feature we showcase suppliers who are environmentally responsible, check them out here and contact them to take your future events to the next level. EventDecision offers brand new solutions for event planners.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Avoiding wellness washing and incorporating holistic well-being into meetings Wellness is on every planner’s mind these days—with it, come concerns of “wellness washing.” A group of professionals with expertise in wellness—its nuances, scope and impact—gathered for a recent Smart Meetings webinar, “How to Avoid Wellness Washing.”

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Event Industry News

JUNE 23, 2022

Lime Venue Portfolio is continuing its support of ethical meetings as it unveils the latest chapter of its Meetings for Change initiative next week at The Meetings Show. Now, Meetings for Change is leading on carbon labelling. .

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 20, 2023

Food sustainability, clean oceans and repurposed rainwater Compared to the largely unexplored universe we inhabit; our little blue and green shimmering marble is small. Smart Meetings selected a few of the top mentions to highlight initiatives and event spaces that are working to keep the Earth clean and green. of event space.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to guide industry. Freeman and Scottish Event Campus (SEC) Glasgow are among the global organisations already using the Net Zero Carbon Events Roadmap to steer their sustainability journey. Net Zero Carbon Events launched in 2021 prior to unveiling its Pledge at COP26 in Glasgow.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 24, 2020

Event strategists should think about designing their 2021 events based on four different “domains:” live hub, Live remote, virtual, and digital, or social media. We need to adopt a new strategy to set our events on a new path of success. Events must once again be drivers of revenue and profitable organizational growth.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 27, 2021

based market research firm, has just published its Top 10 Global Consumer Trends for 2021 , which provides insights for the business events industry. Resilience and adaptability are the driving forces behind these top global and consumer trends in 2021. Euromonitor International, a London, U.K.–based

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

Conference Care has announced a further step in their goal to be the number one choice for organisations looking for a greener approach to venue finding and event management. Chris and the team have been passionate long-term advocates of a more eco-friendly approach to events and have operated as a carbon neutral company since 2010.

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The MICE

MARCH 31, 2022

Bern’s positioning as a leader in the energy and environmental sector, and its easy accessibility within Switzerland and from neighbouring countries, make it the most suitable city to host the Swiss Sustainability Forum. Circular Economy Entrepreneurs 2021. About the event. Photo credit: NZZ Connect. About the organiser.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 26, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus will plant a tree for every person who meets with its delegation at IMEX Frankfurt. The Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow has pledged to plant a tree for every person its team meets with during IMEX Frankfurt. A volunteer plants Scots pine seedlings. Curt Wagner is digital editor at Convene.

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Hubilo Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

2020 pushed a majority of the predictions of event industry trends down the drain. Here are some of the event trends you should be mindful of in 2021: . This trend will continue for the most part of 2021, with digital remaining a major component of the event strategy. Virtual Event Platform.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 25, 2022

Two-thirds of venues say they will recover to 2019 meeting revenue levels in 2022 or 2023, with Danish and Australian venues predicting the fastest recovery, according to IACC’s annual Meeting Room of the Future Barometer 2022 , which was released today. In 2022 this percentage has dropped to 19%.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Our 2021 come-back show was invested with an air of sheer celebration and excitement as the global industry reunited. She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. That includes new booths from U.S. Download your essential IMEX Guide here.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Our 2021 come-back show was invested with an air of sheer celebration and excitement as the global industry reunited. She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. That includes new booths from U.S. Download your essential IMEX Guide here.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2022

On June 2, 2022, event supplier Brella announced its partnership with the nonprofit organization One Tree Planted in a joint effort to combat deforestation and counteract the tons of yearly carbon emissions caused by the event industry. Virtual events are commonly seen as a greener alternative to in-person conferences.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Shifting trends are found in how planners are measuring sustainability as well as overall event success, plus technology, budgets, and staffing. First, among the nearly 70 meeting managers at international corporations who participated in ICE’s research, sustainability remains a top priority for more than three out of four of them.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

HBAA board and senior management share their predictions for 2021. Collaboration and consolidation will be key trends for the business events, accommodation and meetings industry in 2021, according to the HBAA. Smaller meetings and smaller/hybrid events will replace the large-scale offerings for 2021.”.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

ICC Wales will launch an updated version of its report, ‘The Great Outdoors’, at this week’s The Meetings Show 2021, focussing on the benefits of incorporating nature into events as part of the new delegate experience. The new report will be presented at The Meetings Show 2021 at ExCeL London on Thursday 30 th September.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The meetings, events and incentives community will come together this week to make valuable business connections, learn and network as The Meetings Show returns. Here are some of the highlights of The Meetings Show 2021: Inspiring exhibitors. Quality hosted buyers. Education, education, education.

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

Organizers reported 9,000 attendees, including close to 3,000 buyers, and 2,300 exhibiting companies taking part, making it the largest event industry trade show to take place since the start of the Covid pandemic. IMEX America 2021 reported a total of 8,605 attendees, itbm world 2021 reported 7,000 reported attendees.

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Event Birdie

JANUARY 26, 2021

Last year I was quite proud of my 2020 Event Trend Predictions. I had thought long and hard about what I thought would shape the events industry and I predicted we were in for a change; “…. How do people plan events when plans can so easily be disrupted? Am I a modern-day Nostradamus?

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Event Industry News

APRIL 7, 2021

DRPG’s recent audit for ISO 14001 and ISO 20121 certifications leads to a resounding result of meeting all standards. With the decision to refresh their sustainability management system in 2020. The audit set out to confirm that DRPG had been abiding by the government demands and meeting the requirements of the certified standards.

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