Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

Sustainability efforts are key to keep the travel and tourism train going. In a report by World Travel & Tourism Council and JLL, “ Destination 2030: Global Cities’ Readiness For Sustainable Tourism Growth ,” the two organizations take a look at the cities making tourism sustainable. Cities That Deserve a Shout Out.

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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. Conference organiser, NZZ Connect, is a branch of the leading Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).

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Smart Meetings

JULY 20, 2021

You’re at a multiday conference, and during one of the midday breaks you decide to spend a bit of time at an outlet to treat yourself. This is one example of Atlantic City’s efforts to give back to its community and create a sustainable future for its residents. As you walk around, you notice a swarm of bees overhead.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has announced details of its schedule for the ESSA Conference and Award Dinner, at Arena MK on December 2, 2021, in conjunction with its headline sponsors, BeMatrix and JL Live. Members can also check the ESSA website regularly as we update the conference schedule with additional content.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 17, 2020

International not-for-profit organisation, A Greener Festival (AGF), has announced the 37 recipients of “A Greener Festival Award” in 2019. Participants demonstrate beneficial sustainability practices, hitting the key areas including, but not limited to, transport, waste, power, water, ecosystems and local area impacts.

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Event Industry News

JULY 20, 2022

Three quarters (75%) of respondents expect their organisation’s 2022 travel volume to eclipse 2019 levels, with more than a third (32%) citing they expect volumes to “increase significantly”. Areas that have increased in importance include vendor flexibility, environmental sustainability, and traveller preferences, among others.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 10, 2020

The 500-year-old London venue, which houses an award-winning conference and events centre, reduced its total carbon footprint by 30% in the past three years and has switched its electricity provision entirely to 100% renewable energy as well as using environmentally responsible suppliers and service partners.

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Event Industry News

MAY 24, 2019

The Events Industry Council, in partnership with IMEX, awarded the 2019 IMEX-EIC Innovation in Sustainability Award to Global Climate Action Summit before an audience of hundreds of industry leaders at an awards gala during IMEX Frankfurt last night.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Do you need to find new monetary sources for conferences, conventions and trade shows? Research Finds Sponsorships Are Still Relevant According to a 2019 report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research ( CEIR ) of 200 show executives and 728 exhibitors, sponsorships make up roughly 20% of B2B tradeshow revenues.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nearly every conference and trade show professional is searching for that perfect virtual platform or pricing model for replacing lost expo revenue. In the February 2019 issue of Convene, I wrote about Why the Sustainability of the Trade-Show Business Model is in Question. Virtual Expo Truths. I’ve got bad news for you.

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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. However, we still face a number of challenges.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

However, 50% stated they had drastically changed their diet post-event, 75% of which had sustained that change six months down the line. “We The festival committed to being dairy-free in 2019. How easy is sustainable catering in the event industry?

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Event Industry News

MAY 8, 2020

The Sustainable Event Awards Celebrate Excellence in Event Sustainability. During my career as an environmental manager I have won several National awards in Ireland, in 2015, I was the Environmental Manager of the year from the Irish Hospitality Institute, and in 2019, I became a judge of that same award. Best (and worst?)

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 7, 2019

And more spending money means more events: forty-nine percent of respondents plan to host more events in 2019. percent in 2019. Sustainability has been a huge topic this year, but only five percent of planner respondents said they made it a priority when creating their event. Only six percent report lowered budgets.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The year 2019 is almost upon us. 2019 Event Trends: Your Audience Craves Authenticity. Sustainability Is Part of the Plan. Despite the increasing number of events held yearly, many still feel like copycats of other successful conferences. This is no longer going to fly this 2019. Brain Dates: Networking 2.0.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Data Science for the SDGs” was the theme of the 2019 Data for Good Exchange hosted by Bloomberg in New York City, which looked at how data science projects can help make progress toward achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Bloomberg). Courtesy Salesforce).

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Event Industry News

JUNE 23, 2021

The Event Industry Alliance (EIA), comprising the Association of Event Organisers (AEO), the Association of Event Venues (AEV) and the Event Suppliers and Services Association (ESSA), has launched a new and comprehensive sustainability commitments framework. ”

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Event Industry News

MARCH 16, 2022

Venues of Excellence (VoE) has hosted its first members Annual Conference under its new ownership with Mandy Jennings who took the helm of the award-winning consortium in May 2021. A key challenge facing many member venues currently lies in the recruitment and securing the right candidate to take businesses successfully into the future.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has today announced that it will be holding its annual conference at the Business Design Centre (BDC), London, on Friday, November 26, 2021, with the theme ‘Disruption: the new norm.’ Paton will open the conference exploring the unchartered territory of disruption.

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Management Events

JANUARY 19, 2022

Whether it is sustainable transformations or implementing AI, change is necessary. On the technical side, I see the IT productionizing & operational issues arising since 2019. The Need For Sustainability and Competent Business Intelligence. For sure sustainability as a topic is here to stay!

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 22, 2019

The venue has been shortlisted for ‘Best CSR’ for the London Venue Awards and ‘Greenest Venue’ and ‘Best Conference Venue’ for the Hire Space Awards 2019. Whether it’s a conference , social event or wedding, we have a true history of hospitality. Conferences. For almost 100 years, BMA House has sat in the heart of London.

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Event Industry News

MAY 1, 2020

The Sustainable Event Awards Celebrate Excellence in Event Sustainability. Led Sustainability at Smyle for 10 years and set up the industry wide initiative Sustainable Events Summit in 2014. What does sustainability mean to you? When did you first become interested in sustainability?

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Event Industry News

APRIL 19, 2022

Recognising the requirements of sustainability and building this into all areas of the delivery. Initial discussions for the project were held in 2019 with the 2020 event postponed due to Covid and rescheduled for November 2021. Pylon One – Scale | Secure | Sustainable. Sustainability. Background.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

2019 is set to be a big year for the events industry, which according to the Events are GREAT Britain report is now estimated to be worth a staggering £39.1bn. To complement this, providing healthy food options, to help sustain energy levels and keep attendees focused is also hot on the agenda for 2019. There are some 1.3m

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2020

The first global conference dedicated to floating solar panel technology set sail in Amsterdam in 2019. Floating solar panel technology had a breakout year in 2019. Interest in the technology grew fast enough to merit the creation of the first Floating Solar Conference , which took place Sept. Land and Sea.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

AUGUST 23, 2019

To help you get among that community, we’ve put together a collection of events for business owners in 2019 and 2020, beginning with: 1) South Summit CDMX 2019. 2) Funding & Scaling September 2019. 3) FallUp 2019. Dates : September 18th & 19th, 2019. 4) Startup Couples 2019. Tickets : Free !

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Culture Cake is a non-profit conference due to take place on September 28th in Porto, Portugal. The aim, by the end of the conference, is for attendees to develop a company culture manifesto which they can then iterate on with their employees. Date : September 29th, 2019. Date : November 16th & 17th, 2019.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Yet we believe there’s something being all too frequently overlooked in this renewed spotlight on sustainability – and it’s often critical to lead capture! This all said, it’s 2019. Conferences. Venues all over are taking steps to lessen their carbon footprint; and of course, the waste they’d have to clear up at the end of it.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 21, 2019

ICE (in-house Corporate Events) has announced what it sees as the main trends affecting this sector of the industry in 2019. The announcement comes 12 months after the brand predicted wellness and sustainability as the key talking points for 2018, and both subjects have returned in 2019, with a few other more surprising developments. .

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The UK’s meetings industry is looking towards 2019 with optimism following a successful summer and an uplift in enquiries for the year ahead. The industry also experienced an increase of around 7% in average enquiry levels between June and August compared to the same period in 2017, indicating further sustained growth into 2019.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Nearly two years ago I was asked to create a ‘sustainable event’ by one of the world’s largest banks in the form of a trade show booth and the truth is I didn’t know where to begin. Events by their very nature are temporary and this plays a large part in what makes them great.

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 14, 2020

In December 2019 I travelled to Madrid to attend the Sustainable Innovation Summit, an official side event at the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference. I was very keen to find out what sustainability professionals thought about flight shaming. Logistically this meant a huge effort just for the event to take place.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales) has hosted its largest exhibition to date, as part of the ISBA 2021 Annual Conference (Independent Schools’ Bursars Association). Ian Edwards, Chief Executive, ICC Wales, commented: “We are delighted that ISBA chose our venue for their annual conference.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Many have striven for massive follower counts and social media “influence” Others, like myself, have enjoyed the platform’s often-strained ability to discover and sustain communities of interest on a myriad of topics. In 2019, only ~13% of Twitter accounts were private.) Since then, Twitter began a slow decline.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In 2019 and beyond, event planners need to make sure the events they coordinate are organized around the modern consumer. Workshops are becoming the preferred activity for many conferences and meetings. Sustainability Efforts at Events are Expected. Sustainability cannot simply be an afterthought. Experience is key.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

Sustainable Brands conference participants volunteered time to work at the park. Photos courtesy of Sustainable Brands). Best in Show 2019: Sustainable Brands. June 3-6, 2019 Cobo Center. Conference participants also were invited to plant trees at a local park with the Arbor Day Foundation.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Here’s what Chicago meeting planners are saying about events in the Windy City, and what’s trending in 2019. Jeff Russell is the conference center director at the Gleacher Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, steps from the Magnificent Mile. Creative Collaboration. Work/Life Balance. Green Eating.

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