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Mobile World Congress: Coronavirus shuts down world’s biggest phone show

Event Industry News

In a statement, organisers, the GSM Association (GSMA), said: “With due regard to the safe and healthy environment in Barcelona and the host country, the GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event.”.

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Association Meetings Up, Attendees Down

SmartMeetings

Cities with the most international association meetings last year were Vienna, Seoul and Barcelona, Spain, followed by Copenhagen, London and Amsterdam. Looking back over the past decade, ICCA says the average number of attendees to an international association meeting decreased from 672 in 2006 to 404 in 2016.

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ICCA Names Top 20 Association Meeting Cities

SmartMeetings

The top five was reshuffled quite a bit, with Vienna rising two places to second, Berlin dropping to fourth, and Barcelona and London staying at third and fifth, respectively. In one decade, the number of association meetings has doubled from less than 6,000 in 2006 to more than 12,000 in 2016. 1 Berlin reported last year.

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Top 5 Agencies in the UK and Spain for Your Corporate Event

Eventscase Blog

This veteran Barcelona-based company, in addition to event organisation, is an expert in destination management. in 2006 after working in the public sector delivering training programmes and conferences for over fifteen years. CREA GROUP. Its expertise is also focalised in the management of complementary services.

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Where You’d Least Expect Them

PCMA Convene

If you’ve spent any time in the business-events industry, you know destinations like Las Vegas, Paris, Chicago, or Barcelona like the back of your hand. After quietly lobbying for Rapid City to become a host city since 2006, she made it onto the agenda to give a formal presentation at ICPC 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. “It

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