Gearing up for WEC 2025 in St. Louis
MPI
MAY 21, 2024
Brian Hall, chief marketing officer, Explore St. Louis, shares some of the many reasons why you should already be excited about WEC 2025 in the Gateway City.
NOEA announce ‘New Events World 2025’ as theme for annual convention
Event Industry News
APRIL 24, 2024
The National Outdoor Events Association (NOEA) has unveiled the theme of its annual convention, New Events World 2025, which returns to Bath later this year, Tuesday, 26th November.
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ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter Announces Leeds as the Host City for the 2025 Annual Conference
Prestige Events Magazine
MARCH 1, 2024
The ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter announced that Leeds will host the 2025 ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter Conference, during the closing session of this year’s successful event. The ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter Conference will take place from 26 to 28 February, 2025 in Leeds.
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Vision: 2025 and Julie’s Bicycle launched a Sustainable Materials and Waste Management Toolkit for Festivals at AIF Congress
Event Industry News
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Vision: 2025 and Julie’s Bicycle launched a Sustainable Materials and Waste Management Toolkit for Festivals at AIF Congress, Bristol, Feb 1st, 2023.
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Vision: 2025’s Sustainable Event Summit returns to Showman’s Show in 2023
Event Industry News
JUNE 21, 2023
With plans for The Showman’s Show 2023 gathering pace, organiser Lance Show & Publications Limited is pleased to announce that the Vision: 2025 Sustainable Event Summit will return on Wednesday 18th October.
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Nineteen Group commits to NEC until 2025
Event Industry News
MAY 23, 2023
Nineteen Group has signed a contract to bring its portfolio of shows to NEC Birmingham until 2025. Most […]
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Agenda Unveiled: The 2024 Experiential Marketing Summit in Las Vegas
Event Marketer
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Let’s talk everything at the 2024 Experiential Marketing Summit, April 24-26, in Las Vegas. Indeed, events are everything , and at the 22 nd annual Experiential Marketing Summit, April 24-26, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas, we’ll explore why.
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Managing Client Expectations in the Current Market
MeetingsNet
JANUARY 13, 2023
Planners are in a hotel-market mess, with limited availability, high food costs, and short-staffed properties, many of which are still trying to pull their bottom line back from the trash after being closed for months in 2020. Be prepared with a response, providing specifics on the current market or the properties you’re considering.
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Top 25 Meeting Markets Seeing Uneven Recovery
MeetingsNet
APRIL 22, 2022
By March, meetings business in most of the top 25 meeting markets in the country beat forecasts, while April is also on pace to notably exceed the forecasts made as recently as early February. meeting markets is the strength of transient business travel. One factor that affects demand and prices in the top U.S.
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Coachella Quests: Inside the Festival’s Gamified Scavenger Hunts
Event Marketer
MAY 23, 2024
Plus, one diehard fan who completed all of the Quests and earned enough points was randomly selected to win the grand prize: the Coachella Key, a rare NFT that came with two free Coachella 2025 tickets. The post Coachella Quests: Inside the Festival’s Gamified Scavenger Hunts appeared first on Event Marketer.
Vision: 2025 launches towards Zero Waste Festivals Report
Event Industry News
MARCH 24, 2023
The Zero Waste Festival Report was created through in-depth stakeholder interviews, specialist knowledge from Resource Futures, input from an industry working group and a literature review. Download the report HERE.
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Boardmasters Festival applies to expand capacity in 2024 and 2025
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
By Tamsin Melville & Dan Wareing for bbc.co.ukPolitical Reporter A popular surf and music festival in Cornwall is applying to expand its capacity over the next two years. If successful, Boardmasters Festival’s application to Cornwall Council would see it increase from a capacity of 53,000 people to 58,000 next summer.
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Europe Comes to Southern California
Smart Meetings
MAY 5, 2023
Spain, France and Italy each have their own identities, architecture, restaurants and markets and are set against the backdrop of Temecula’s growing vineyards as they establish themselves as Southern California’s wine country. Europa Village is planning full buildout by 2025. Read More: Top International Meeting Cities.
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The Belfry Hotel & Resort begins its multi-million-pound expansion
Prestige Events Magazine
APRIL 15, 2024
The impressive project, due for completion Autumn 2025, will see a flagship 852sqm event space, The Masters Suite, built and designed to host 648 guests for banqueting with a max capacity of 920, making it perfect for conferences and product launches, mini expos and weddings. “We
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The Future of Event Marketing: Exploring Trends and Innovations
Momencio
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Event marketing is rapidly evolving due to technological advancements and changes in customer preferences. Event marketing has shown to be a successful tool for businesses to connect with their audience on a personal level, from its basic origins to today’s dynamic and engaging techniques.
mia reacts to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget 2024
Event Industry News
MARCH 7, 2024
in 2025 and […] The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has reacted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Spring Budget 2024, which was presented in the House of Commons today. The mia’s chief executive, Kerrin MacPhie, said on the following areas: Growth “It is welcome news that the economy is expected to grow by 0.8%
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A festival for all: Love Saves the Day receives esteemed industry award from Attitude is Everything for accessible facilities
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Bristol’s biggest music festival, Love Saves the Day, has achieved Silver in Attitude is Everything’s Live Events Access Charter for 2023-2025, demonstrating Team Love’s commitment to improving the live music experience for disabled audiences, artists and staff.
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Industry Consultation launched for feedback on new Purple Guide Environmental Chapter
Event Industry News
JULY 27, 2023
Vision: 2025, the UK outdoor event industry’s steering group for environmental sustainability, has been commissioned by the Event Industry Forum’s (EIF) Purple Grants Fund, to write a new chapter of the Purple Guide on Environmental Sustainability for events.
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National Railway Museum reveals new interactive engineering gallery available for event hire
Prestige Events Magazine
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Wonderlab is a dynamic, dramatic, and multi-sensory gallery designed to help guests think and act like engineers by seeing the world differently and is part of the National Railway Museum’s exciting Vision 2025 development. The National Railway Museum is seeking additional funding to further Wonderlab and its wider Vision 2025 projects.
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Industry leaders to #makeadifference at Event Sustainability Live
Event Industry News
MAY 18, 2023
With exhibitors from across the industry already confirmed, Event Sustainability Live (ESL), which will co-locate with Event Tech Live at ExCeL, has announced four more big name sponsors: GL events, ESSA, DPRG and Vision 2025.
Sustainable Event Summit 23 open for registration
Event Industry News
JULY 19, 2023
Outdoor event professionals can now register to attend a free, action-focused day at SES 23 presented by Vision: 2025 and supported by Festival Republic, 18th Oct, at The Showman’s Show.
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Smart Moves in Minneapolis, Ann Arbor and More
Smart Meetings
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Scott Kawasaki Scott Kawasaki, Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa Renaissance Honolulu Hotel & Spa appoints Kawasaki as director of sales and marketing. He will lead all the resort’s strategic sales initiatives in key international markets. He has served the hospitality industry for 35 years.
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Festival Congress returns to Bristol in February
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
2025 tender for AIF event now available. More than 60 festivals already set to attend 2024 event. Festival Congress will return to Bristol’s Beacon on February 1st 2024. Produced by AIF, Festival Congress is the UK’s gathering of independent music festival organisers, promoters and key staff.
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Q&A: San Francisco Travel Association Discusses Event Safety and Business
Event Marketer
OCTOBER 4, 2023
We hopped on a call with Nicole Rogers, executive vp and chief sales officer for San Francisco Travel, the City and County of San Francisco’s official destination marketing organization, for a lengthy conversation about the realities the city is facing, the event business, and how the city is working to keep events and event attendees safe.
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The Brief: Electric Gardens and LaundroMatches
Event Marketer
MAY 13, 2024
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover electric gardens, LaundroMatches and SXSW London. Following the debut of SXSW Sydney in 2023, it was announced last week that South by is headed for Europe in 2025 with SXSW London.
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IBTM launches new trade show for Asia Pacific Market
Event Industry News
JUNE 19, 2019
Shane Hannam, portfolio director at IBTM, commented: “Launching a new event for the Asia Pacific market is not only exciting for the IBTM brand, it is also supported by the fact that the region’s business events industry is expected to see the highest growth rate in the world to reach $441.1bn by 2025.
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Informa Markets launches Better Stands programme to ensure all stands are designed and built to be reusable
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Informa Markets is setting new industry standards for stand quality and sustainability with the launch of Better Stands, a programme aimed at encouraging exhibitors to build cost-effective, high-quality stands made from re-useable materials. Informa Markets has committed to being leaders for sustainable change in our industry.
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New Year, New Openings: UK’s largest independent hotel group prepares for significant 2024 expansion plan
Prestige Events Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2024
The expansion plan for 2024 will further strengthen Bespoke Hotels’ portfolio within the UK hotel market, taking its coverage to almost 90 hotels, over 5,000 rooms and more than 6,000 staff. For more information on Bespoke Hotels and to keep informed on its forthcoming development projects, please visit [link].
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2019 SXSW schedule - the top sessions for event marketers
Eventbase
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
After browsing sessions in the SXSW schedule from the Brands & Marketing track, Experiential Storytelling track, Tech Industry & Enterprise and more, we’re ready to plan our time in Austin. With the SXSW GO app, we’ve favorited our top session picks for event marketers. Sunday, March 10 Why Live Events in a Digital Age?
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LEADING COMPETITIVE SOCIALISING BRAND ‘SWINGERS’ ANNOUNCES UK & US EXPANSION PLANS INCLUDING A NEW £2.5M WEST END ROOF TERRACE AND JUNE OPENING FOR NEW YORK LOCATION
Prestige Events Magazine
APRIL 14, 2022
The market-leading entertainment concept has announced details of Swingers NoMad (NYC) launch, plus its forthcoming West End London expansion and outlined their pipeline up to end of 2025. In total, Swingers plans to open three locations in 2023 and five locations in 2024 and 2025, taking the company to 17 sites by the end of 2025.
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GL events supports Festival Vision
Event Industry News
AUGUST 16, 2019
GL events UK has confirmed its support for The Festival Vision: 2025 initiative, as part of its own commitment to a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly industry. That’s why we were so keen to support The Festival Vision: 2025 campaign.
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U.S. Travel Is Up, But Not Out of Weeds Yet
Smart Meetings
MAY 10, 2022
Ferguson came together at Union Market for its annual Travel Rally, held during U.S. Research by MMGY Travel Intelligence, HIS Markit, Travel Market Insights, National Travel & Tourism and U.S. Travel, overseas visitation will likely not reach 2019 levels until 2025. On May 4, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Much like D.C.,
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Tips for Negotiating Your Next Big Event Contract
Smart Meetings
JUNE 27, 2023
State of the Market Based on the current state of the market, Payne has seen a shift occur due to the events that transpired during Covid-19. Read More : Gen Z Meeting Planners Navigate Post-Covid Job Market “It’s going to be difficult to contract with hotels or destinations that you want to be in for the foreseeable future.
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Washington, DC’s Cherry Blossoms are the Perfect Backdrop to Make Your Events Bloom
Unique Venues
MARCH 20, 2024
For professional planners like yourself, you’ll want to consider planning your 2025 spring events during this ethereal season in D.C. – Marketing Magic Leverage the Cherry Blossom season as a natural marketing opportunity. it will transform an ordinary event into a memorable experience.
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Tarsus Group buys 70% stake in Touch China
Event Industry News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Key to the event’s ongoing success is the extensive support it garners from leading bodies in the market, including the China Communication Industry Association along with top manufacturers in the industry. According to industry sources, the global 3D glass market reached $1.9 billion in 2019 and to more than $8 billion by 2025.
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How Customized Generational Engagement Can Benefit Meeting Profs
Smart Meetings
MAY 8, 2023
Of course, not everyone in a given age range will react identically to an event marketing message. By the year 2025, millennials age 35-39 will make up 19.1% Of course, their marketing preferences are different.” One thing to be aware of is not only the changing face of the attendee majority, but their link with market trends.
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Eco Sustainable Solutions Cleans Up Boomtown
Prestige Events Magazine
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Having committed to becoming a circular festival with net zero scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 2025, Boomtown’s organisers are working towards transforming Boomtown into a sustainable city that’s run entirely on renewable energy. We’d really like to help more events across the Southwest to be greener and more sustainable.
The Showman’s Show 2019 hailed huge success
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Their investment in The Showman’s Show demonstrates a great level of confidence in the UK event market. In addition, the return of the Festival Vision:2025 Conference proved to be a triumph! Clearly, this all attributed to attracting a larger audience and the overall success of the show.”.
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A City Within a City to Launch in SoCal
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Eventually accruing over 30 food concepts throughout the district and a 21-stall Market Hall, ocV!BE 2025 – ocV!BE BE’s Market Hall. BE will be a modern and globally diverse paradise for not only foodies but for aspiring culinary artists. We’re really trying to find some up and comers in the culinary scene,” says Pederson. “We
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Hong Kong secures multiple first-ever MICE events amidst COVID-19 challenges
Event Industry News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The HKTB has prepared a series of recovery campaigns for the MICE industry and is closely monitoring the development of the pandemic in various source markets. We have every confidence that the city will bring our next three editions to even greater height.”. For further information about Hong Kong, please visit [link].
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Bioglitter™ supports project to promote sustainability at festivals
Event Industry News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Ronald Britton, the makers of Bioglitter , are helping fund a new report and knowledge hub, designed to provide inspiration and best practice on reducing the environmental impact of the festival market. Our goal is to help create a movement and champion eco-friendly practices in the festival market and the beauty industry as a whole.
IEG ready to start again with expos and conferences
Event Industry News
JANUARY 28, 2021
Italian Exhibition Group, key international expo and conference player, with its Rimini and Vicenza expo venues in Italy and offices in Milan, New York, Las Vegas and Dubai and listed on the Screen-based Share Market (MTA) organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A,
International conferences bounce back at ACC Liverpool
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Jennifer Jensen, head of business tourism at Marketing Liverpool, said: “International conferences in particular appreciate the citywide support we are able to give. It is about the full city experience – from travel into the city, to welcomes, to accommodation – which sets us apart from other destinations.”.
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Adjusting Strategies to Changing Business Models
PCMA Convene
AUGUST 16, 2023
ESTRO has been used to telling “the story of how destinations can market strategically around SDGs and attract associations with a matching cause to the drivers of development of the city/region. Destinations talk about marketing and competitive edge through impact; associations talk about their missions. But all is not lost.
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