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. Market recovery. Smaller meetings and smaller/hybrid events will replace the large-scale offerings for 2021.”.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Paris 2024 may also achieve the Games’ highest level of sustainability yet by becoming the first to halve its carbon emissions compared to the average of London 2012 and Rio 2016. Sustainability is a key pillar of that roadmap. From Day One, [Paris 2024] was conceived with sustainability in mind.” million tons of CO2.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Venues at Northumbria, the conference and events team at Northumbria University, has become the latest member of Lime Venue Portfolio. The venue will increase the academic venue options within the group and include both heritage and modern options for event organisers looking for a campus environment.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Music Venue Trust (MVT), the UK charity which represents hundreds of grassroots music venues, has moved to create a more resilient and sustainable service to support the expanding membership of the Music Venues Alliance with the announcement of a number of key staff appointments.

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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. None of these “one-offs” will sustain you for the long term. However, there is a better way to plan for 2021 than to just try to blend in-person and virtual.

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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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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 22, 2024

You can take a photorealistic, accurately scaled venue space and lay it out in any configuration to see it in different lights and look at different layers—electricity, guestlist, catering, AV production, anything—and show infinite possibilities using a digital twin,” said Prismm CEO Yaron Lipshitz. Now it is unified,” Lipshitz said.

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Event Birdie

JANUARY 26, 2021

Even with the possibility of a vaccine in the coming months, predicting how the events industry will forge forward in 2021 is a tricky task. Despite that uncertainty I still hold a lot of hope and optimism for the events market in 2021. 1/ Local + Hybrid. 2/ Company Retreats in regional areas. 4/ Never Before Done Experiences.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 28, 2022

Nathan launched and sold various shows including International Confex, went on to lead Olympia, London (who were recognised as venue of the century at the AEO Centenary Awards) and spearheaded some of the biggest research projects in the industry including Sasie (the size and scale index for events report). Informa Markets – Decorex 2021.

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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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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. We are excited by the new landscape for the hospitality and events industry and truly believe the future is bright.”.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The ConnectMe app provides attendees with interactive elements such as live polling and speaker Q&A, the ability to see who else is in the room and at the venue via Room Radar, and to connect, chat and book meetings with like-minded professionals, bringing the best of technology to in-person events.

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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. Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. “We

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Founded in 2021 in the midst of the pandemic, ECA is aiming to secure the full return of international attendees at U.S. events, a strong future workforce, and a more sustainable industry. We know that if we expect our industry to transform, we need to lead that transformation, and ECA provides a critical platform to do so.”

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Event Industry News

MARCH 10, 2021

HBAA, the association for the meetings, events and accommodation industry, has appointed Louisa Watson, Director of Marketing at Wyboston Lakes Resort, and Gareth Warnock, Group Sales Director of De Vere, as venue sector advisors to the Board.

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GEVME

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Be it a graduation ceremony, career fair, exhibitions or a business conference, over the past two years, event planners have been switching from traditional physical venues to virtual venues. The latest study shows that the global virtual events market can expect a growth of 25% between 2021 and 2026. The answer is yes.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 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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InitLive

JANUARY 25, 2021

Step 3) Secure a festival venue. Step 5) Build out your marketing plan for your festival. Offer the most sustainable festival experience possible. Here is a list of common budgetary line items that you should consider as you plan out your budget : The venue or location rental cost. Step 3) Secure a festival venue.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 23, 2021

With sustainability an ever-increasing factor in event decision making, our expert panel explore the many new measurement tools and offer top tips on how to reduce the footprint of events. Curated in partnership with the Event Marketing Association). 1pm – TOP NEW LONDON VENUES AND CHRISTMAS PARTY SURVEY RESULTS.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Hundreds of international and UK destinations, hotels, venues and event suppliers will be present while more than 40 hours of education can be accessed during the show, which continues on 1 October, both live at ExCeL, London and virtually on the Swapcard platform. Spotlighting sustainability. Education, education, education.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Of course, our event marketing budgets will need to be higher in 2023 than in 2021 or 2020. Hold your event in the daylight hours or outside venues (and get an extra point for COVID compliance). Book venues with renewable energy sources like solar panels. It’s also a sign of a returned confidence in event planning.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

By the winners of the Best Sales Solution, Event Technology Awards 2021. Digital provided the only way to engage audiences and the market has not looked back. With venues back open we have not reverted to type: The events industry is all about hybrid. It is secure, cost-effective and sustainable.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitality professionals saw the industry undergo tremendous changes in 2021. 2021 also brought about many exciting developments in hospitality technology, digital marketing, hotel services, and changes in travel trends. International Hotel Technology Forum 2022. April 27-28 | Austria Center | Vienna. The Hotel Show.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Host James Dickson attended the AEV (Association of Event Venues) Conference at the Business Design Centre (BDC) last month, a fertile ground for podcast content. In these four rapid-fire Q&A sets, James talks to management from some key locations, north and south.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following on from the launch in 2021, Net Zero Carbon Events published a Roadmap as a helpful resource at Cop27 in November 2022. In 2022 we published a four-year Green Energy Roadmap, with phase 1 completed this year. Full guidance documents are set for release in December 2023 at the time of Cop28.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 4, 2022

Registration is now open for Travel T ech Show, the global meeting place for travel technology leaders, which returns in-person on 29-30 June 2022 alongside The Meetings Show and Business Travel Show Europe at new venue, ExCeL London, following a two year hiatus and a fully virtual offering in 2021.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The campaign planning work started in September and is aiming to launch before the end of the year, subject to the prevailing national situation and any developments in relation to the consumer/business market guidance for events re-opening into 2021. It aims to: Reassure.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

During this year’s celebration, which took place at The Forest of Arden Birmingham after ESSA’s Annual Conference, awards were presented across eight categories including Unsung Hero and Innovation of the Year as well as a new Sustainability accolade acknowledging its rising importance. SUSTAINABILITY Sponsored by BeMatrix UK.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 21, 2022

RCP London Events, which hosts over 570 events per year at its London events venue and digitally across its virtual event platform, has appointed a new General Manager (GM). It’s not just a standard venue. James joins RCP London Events at an exciting time for the venue. The RCP really stands out. “My

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The launch, taking place on Decarbonisation Day, will be held in the Room Lotus, in Area B of the COP27 Venue at Sharm El Sheikh, starting at 1000 local time in Egypt. Launched in August 2021, the Net Zero Carbon Events initiative is the events industry’s global campaign to achieve net zero carbon by 2050.

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Nunify

JULY 27, 2021

A fragment of the event organisers, guest speakers can leverage the best of in-venue systems. Closed door venues have strict protocols and guest list restrictions. Small-scale startups, SMEs, and Enterprises – all businesses are choosing to incorporate hybrid events into their marketing strategy.

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Event Industry News

MAY 26, 2021

The hospitality alliance, comprised of Destination DC (DDC), the official destination marketing organization for Washington, DC, Events DC, the Hotel Association of Washington, D.C. DDC is a one-stop resource to provide customers with all the health information across transportation, venues, hotels and more on washington.org/meetings.

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SpotMe Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

The hybrid event management company defines hybrid events as live-marketing plus MoSoLo (mobile applications, social media, location-based services), and ensures all of their clients are privileged to just that. Engage attendees with targeted event marketing communications. Check out the 7 Best Hybrid Event Platforms for 2021.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 6, 2021

From award-winning event organisers to industry-leading event suppliers, the forum brings together the very best event professionals from across the South Coast with a combined aim to re-emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a more unified, collaborative and sustainable offer.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

Changing the culture throughout the hotel has been a key priority and we have spent a great deal of time over the years working on the business’s values, brand and strategy; building on our passionate people, excellent service, innovation and sustainability. This was particularly challenging; both markets are unique and equally important.

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Nunify

APRIL 14, 2021

Your marketing teams love virtual events because they can reach audiences they never imagined. Hybrid event sponsorship will be the solution that competes not just with traditional marketing, but also with digital marketing budgets. Digital Future of the Event Venue. Can you give me a letter for my visa ?

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 29, 2021

By 2050, German bank Berenberg projects that the carbon offsets market will be worth approximately $200 billion. The events industry is helping to grow that market. As event organizers, and meeting venues and hotels and look for ways to address the climate crisis, how can they be sure that offsets aren’t off base?

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