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Globex update: Global exhibitions market to contract by c.70% in 2020

Event Industry News

The global exhibitions market is set to contract by c.70% This forecast is the only analysis that measures the direct impact of Covid-19 on the global exhibitions organising market. AMR’s methodology has focused on three factors – event cancellations, event postponements and the contraction of events.

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. A director of her client company got furious with her staff and event workers, made a huge scene, demanding to keep drinking when the bar closed.

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Omicron Event Cancellations Abroad, Travel Bans and Returning Resident Restrictions

Smart Meetings

Yet in just two weeks, the variant is known to have spread to 17 countries: South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, as well as Hong Kong and Reunion, a French island.

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